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Message no. 1
From: David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG>
Subject: Re: [OT] LARP story
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:52:59 -0600
Ogre wrote:
/
/ If you think itsa hard explaining RPG's to people, then try explaining
/ Live Role Playing to people.

Here's a fun little story. Drove from Denver Colorado the Norman
Kansas to play in a LARP game. On the way back I was pulled over by
the police. I had been drafting the a friend's car in front of me
(to save gas, and it was fun at the time) when he (the friend) saw
the cop. He slammed on his breaks and slowed down to the speed
limit. I avoided hitting him. I didn't see the cop. I started
drafting him again. The cop knew we had been speeding but he hadn't
been able to clock our speed. Also, earlier that day some people had
tried to run drugs through Kansas and some people had died in a shoot
out. The cop was not in a good mood. Lucky for him I was
tailgating.

So I'm sitting in his car as he's writing the ticket and he asks me
what I'm doing in Kansas. He's already searched our cooler for
alcohol and asked me all the drug questions. Then I proceed to try
to explain what the heck a live action roleplaying game is. I
thought for sure I was going to be spending the night in a Kansas
jail.

-David
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Message no. 2
From: Ereskanti <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: [OT] LARP story
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 18:17:40 EDT
In a message dated 4/17/98 3:52:38 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG writes:

> So I'm sitting in his car as he's writing the ticket and he asks me
> what I'm doing in Kansas. He's already searched our cooler for
> alcohol and asked me all the drug questions. Then I proceed to try
> to explain what the heck a live action roleplaying game is. I
> thought for sure I was going to be spending the night in a Kansas
> jail.
>
> -David
>
"Why no officer, we don't act out being under a controlled substance's
effects...why do you ask???" ;)

-K
Message no. 3
From: Matthew Waddilove <m_waddilove@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: [OT] LARP story
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 03:58:47 PDT
David Buehrer Wrote
>Here's a fun little story. Drove from Denver Colorado the Norman
>Kansas to play in a LARP game. On the way back I was pulled over by
>the police. I had been drafting the a friend's car in front of me
>(to save gas, and it was fun at the time) when he (the friend) saw
>the cop. He slammed on his breaks and slowed down to the speed
>limit. I avoided hitting him. I didn't see the cop. I started
>drafting him again. The cop knew we had been speeding but he hadn't
>been able to clock our speed. Also, earlier that day some people had
>tried to run drugs through Kansas and some people had died in a shoot
>out. The cop was not in a good mood. Lucky for him I was
>tailgating.
>
>So I'm sitting in his car as he's writing the ticket and he asks me
>what I'm doing in Kansas. He's already searched our cooler for
>alcohol and asked me all the drug questions. Then I proceed to try
>to explain what the heck a live action roleplaying game is. I
>thought for sure I was going to be spending the night in a Kansas
>jail.
>

While we're on the subject of LARP encounters with the police here's
one:
I was in Brighton doing a cyberpunk-style LARP, we had been at someone's
house earlier for most of the event and had gone to the local LaserQuest
that we had the use of for the night, perfect setting for a corporate
extraction scenario, the extraction was under way inside the complex
when who else turned up but a Brighton Police Armed Response Unit(for
those of you not from the UK, this is quite a big deal as police
officers don't carry firearms) who where luckly quite friendly and once
the event had been explained, one of them showed an interest in coming
along.
What had happened was before the scenario had actually started the
players where hanging around in the lobby in their full getup, Assault
Rifles, Pistols, swords etc... someone even had a Infantry rocket
launcher(a tube about 0.5 meters long don't know what it's really
called), Typical 'runner gear, when a pensioner had walked past and seen
all of these 'Terrorists' hanging around and had called the police in a
panic.

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