[Elfsea] Pennsic Story

[lisabetta]

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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