ilsundal wrote:

"Barrett was passing through Union Station from Whitby, clad in his 85-pound scale armour, when he was "thrown into a bench" and held at gunpoint while the police dumped out his backpack and rifled through its contents... Barrett is "champion of Twilight Peak" and weapons safety officer for a 15th century role-playing game called AMTGARD."

Apparently his foam weapons are being linked to terrorism. Hopefully his armor has a +20 against bullets.

I don't know that it would help, but I don't think he's got to worry terribly much about his image after being harassed by the cops. Looking at him I still wouldn't think "big nerdy guy who is going to smash things because he's angry with the government"--I'd just be thinking "big harmless nerd who might be wearing more mail than is good for his mobility if lunatics actually did show up".

ilsundal wrote:

"Barrett was passing through Union Station from Whitby, clad in his 85-pound scale armour, when he was "thrown into a bench" and held at gunpoint while the police dumped out his backpack and rifled through its contents... Barrett is "champion of Twilight Peak" and weapons safety officer for a 15th century role-playing game called AMTGARD."

Apparently his foam weapons are being linked to terrorism. Hopefully his armor has a +20 against bullets.

...although seeing as how he was contacted by a bunch of people who recognized his weapons I'd say a lawsuit for various reasons could very well be in order. For things like that to go down without major incidents, both the civilians and the cops need to work at not overreacting by doing things like roughing up rennies.