[Loch-Ruadh] Re: [Elfsea] Pennsic Story

[Spence Mabry]

--- Original Message ---
From: TWMarsh at TarrantCounty.com
To: elfsea at ansteorra.org
Subject: [Elfsea] Pennsic Story

>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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