kids in kitchen, was: SC - Worst feast ever...

[Bonne of Traquair]

>I don't know what event the accident was supposed to have happened at.  The
>event where the child was made to leave the kitchen was For LOve and Honor.
>Someone who knew her age came in and without wpeaking to me told her to
>leave because that after an accident with a gas explosion there was a "law"
>that noone under 16 could be in the kitchen at an event.
>Maddalena


It doesn't seem that anyone here has heard of any such thing in their own 
kingdom and certainly not Society-wide. It would not be out of line for you 
to contact the person who was doing the enforcing and ask for clarification 
as you were too preoccupied at the time to catch anything but the idea that 
your hard worker had to leave. I would really be interested in their 
information.

It might have been that their concern was site related rather than SCA 
related and the rule was coming from a site contact because the site had an 
insurance issue.  Again, unless they were autocrat of officer they shouldn't 
have been doing the enforcing, but I know of situations where a particular 
person may have more contact with the site than the autocrat does. For 
instance, a member was an employee of the Y that owned the camp we often 
used.  When he spoke, we listened.  He didn't necessarily hunt up the 
autocrat first if he had something to be said that would preserve the safety 
of people or equipment.

The Atlantian gas explosion incident was two years ago now and I don't 
recall children in the kitchen being an issue in Atlantia since then.  I 
beleive some children, not teens, were in the kitchen but whether or not 
they were working/hanging out and/or injured I don't recall. A clear report 
of the incident was posted to the Merry Rose at the time, perhaps Baron 
Corun or Mistress Kiri can search the archives?  If people elsewhere are 
using this to justify a non-existant rule, we need to get it clarified.

Bonne
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