[Elfsea] Pennsic Story
lisabetta
lisabetta at houston.rr.com
Fri Aug 8 12:06:03 PDT 2003
How can we reach him :)
At Friday, 08 August 2003, you wrote:
>Don Aeron Harper sent me this Pennsic story:
>
>Master Iolo Fitzowen, the newest Lion of Ansteorra, who has sold
crossbows
>at the Pennsic war for 17 years, sets up a canvas backstop so that his
>customers can test fire his bows with SCA-legal boffer arrows. He
has done
>this every year that he has been at that or any other war. Every
day all day
>boffer arrows hit the canvas and drop harmlessly to the ground.
>
>This year, on Thursday, Cindy Cooper walked up with a Marshal in
tow and
>told him that what he was doing is against the rules.
>
>Iolo replied "Oh. Well I've been doing it for 17 years."
>
>Cindy said "Yes, well I've suspected that you've been doing it,
but I've
>never actually caught you at it."
>
>Well it was pretty incredible that not only did she happen to "catch"
him
>doing it, this time, after somehow missing it for 17 years, but
she already
>had the paperwork filled out (with the marshal's approval) to throw
Iolo off
>the site.
>
>Iolo said "I had no idea this was a problem. We can just stop doing
it, all
>you had to do is ask."
>
>Cindy said "No, you're out of here. Clear out tonight."
>
>In case anyone doesn't know Iolo, making and selling these crossbows
is how
>he makes a living. He gets fully 1/4 of his business at and because of
>Pennsic.
>
>So Iolo is driving the 24 hours home to Texas right now, without
even so
>much as a partial refund. He's bringing home several finished crossbows,
if
>any would like to buy one. If you were thinking of ordering a crossbow
from
>him soon-ish, now would be a good time.
>
>Llywelyn
>
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