[Artemisia] Tangent, was RE: Yearbook Picture

[ravenmacleod at comcast.net]

That reminds me of the time I was commuting from Brigham City to Salt Lake for work. It was wednesday so I had all my gear in the Car and I had forgotten to drop speed coming from the North (its 75 up there). The police officer asked if I had any weapons in the car and I awnsered yes. When he asked what they were I stated that I had several practice swords and a few display swords in the trunk. He just looked at me, laughed, reminded me to slow down and sent me on my way. 

--
Raven MacLeod 
Sergeant, Student, Vassal 

En fides abunde virtus, en virtus abunde fides. 

If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery, it wouldnt seem so wonderful after all. --Michelangelo 


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From: Dame Theodora <damethea at inbox.com> 

> I can see Sir Gregory's ideas as a reasonable chain of events. And I thank him 
> for including the link to the actual complaint, as I am glad to read it without 
> the slant of the news media. 
> 
> As for that kid and his high school picture - I think that if the portraits had 
> been taken on school grounds, and he had brought the weapon to school for the 
> picture, they **might** have cause for enforcing zero-tolerance. But if the 
> pictures were taken off-campus, there is no grounds. How is it any better to 
> put the picture in the paid advertising? 
> 
> The tangent: I cannot tell you how many times that I have heard of people that 
> were on their way to SCA events that got pulled over by a cop and asked if they 
> have any weapons in their car. Most of the time the cop was told "no", not out 
> of intent to lie, but out of the fact that we don't think of our live steel as 
> weapons. Many of us think of it more as jewelry or accessories. 
> 
> Makes me stop and think a little. 
> ~thea 
> 
> 
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