Russian Tolkien Fan in Court After Killing Role-Play Opponent

[Mystery Man]

Interesting. A couple months late but oh well.

More on the subject.

 

[Rel]

It was later revealed that the older man’s sword was 1.5 times longer than Oleg’s.

Damn, dude! You already killed the boy, no need to brag!

 

[Dark Jezter]

It was later revealed that the older man’s sword was 1.5 times longer than Oleg’s.

I see your Shwartz is bigger than mine.

 

[Mystery Man]

This is the part that amuses me to no end...

The defendant, head of the Urals Historical Fencing Club, says his opponent was not quick enough and that the teenager hit himself against the plastic sword.

 

[Xath]

This is the part that amuses me to no end...

I've seen stuff like this happen with disasterous effects. It sounds like it's a stupid excuse, but it's not. In fights like this (even choreographed ones) people can be off on their estimations of their opponents weapons to disasterous results.

I was judging an Epee battle in a local fencing club once. One guy stuck his sword straight out with his arm locked. The other guy was preparing to leap over his previous defense and didn't notice. He lept right into his opponent's sword and broke 4 of his ribs.

 

[D_Sinclair]

And how many folks here wish they could do like the Russians and list themselves as elves or hobbits on official census bureau forms?

http://www.mosnews.com/feature/2005/05/18/tolkien.shtml

However, the best article on the site is this: Russian Media Hails Spammer’s Murder
http://www.mosnews.com/commentary/2005/07/26/spamassassin.shtml


However, I found it mighty odd that a Moscow-based news site is splattered with recruitment ads for the US Navy.

 

[Bobitron]

Storytelling is one of the best things about the scene, and one of the best-known stories goes like this: a Tolkien fan coming back from a game and wearing an expensive leather coat over his ring mail was unfortunate enough to run into a couple of skinheads late at night. Taking him for a rich and easy prey, they tried to rob the man, threatening him with a knife. When the knife bounced off the hidden coat of mail and the man raised a huge real-looking sword over his head, the two would-be muggers fell to their knees, begging: “Have mercy on us, Duncan MacLeod,” mistaking the Tolkien fan for the immortal highlander.

That's a riot. What's the chance that's true?

 

[Aeson]

What is this world coming to when geeks are killing other geeks. When will the insanity end?

 

[reveal]

What is this world coming to when geeks are killing other geeks. When will the insanity end?

There can be only one.

 

[MaxKaladin]

That's a riot. What's the chance that's true?

Dunno, I've heard a number of variations on this story only involving SCA members. My favorite is something like the one above except the guy was a SCA viking who was jogging in New York wearing na regular jogging suit. He mail under his jogging suit for extra weight. The story went more or less as described until the mugger tried to stab him and the knife bounced off. At that point, the weaponless man (who nevertheless had a viking persona in the SCA and looked the part) screamed "BLOOD FOR ODIN!" and started trying to chase the mugger down as he fled in terror.