G20 Cops Confiscated LARPer Weaponry

Amongst the weaponry confiscated in the runup to the G20 in Toronto was the foam shields and foam sword of a Live Action RolePlay nerd, or LARPer.

From Cnews here:

Police are living in a fantasy world if they think arrows on display Tuesday had anything to do with the weekend G20 violence, a Whitby man said Wednesday.

Brian Barrett was shocked to go online Tuesday and see a photo gallery showing toy weapons seized from him while en route to Mississauga for a fantasy role-playing game.

His hand-made scale armour, cushion-tipped arrows and hockey-taped shields were among the items Toronto Police chief Bill Blair said were “seized from criminals” who wreaked havoc on the city Saturday.

“Some of the things that are related are these arrows with devices tied on to them so that they could pour gas on them, ignite them and shoot them at us,” Blair said. “That was seized from criminals.”

Not so, said Barrett, “champion of Twilight Peak” and weapons safety officer for a 15th century role-playing game called Amtgard.

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 officers dumped out his backpack — also on display Tuesday — and rifled through its contents.

It was reported that the cops also slapped him around and told him to find a girlfriend. And speaking of idiotic G20 nerds, Brian Sonne, the man who purchased the shoebomber DIY kit off the internet is still in jail. I guess he’s having problems convincing the authorities that it was all a big misunderstanding.

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