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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nerfherder" data-source="post: 2304926" data-attributes="member: 18305">Not exactly role-playing, but along the lines of ill-advised things to do...In the late 80's, early 90's, a group of guys at college decided to run around outside playing with uzi-shaped water pistols.My college is in the UK.  In London.  In South Kensington.  Right next to the Iranian, Iraqi and Kuwaiti embassies...  How fast can you say Armed Response Vehicles...?One of my roleplaying friends told me about an incident that his brother was involved in.  This was during the early 90's when the IRA bombings on the mainland were at their height.  In 1992 and again in 1993 huge bombs in the back of trucks exploded in the City of London.  His brother was an armed policeman in London at the time (most UK police are not armed) in an Armed Response Vehicle.  They were driving towards London early one morning when they overtook a van being driven by a man wearing a balaclava.  Now, to people in the UK at that time, the sight of someone wearing a balaclava would be like seeing someone looking exactly like Osamah bin-Laden climbing onto a plane...   They quickly pulled the van over, heard the driver had an irish accent and discovered that the back of the van was filled with men lying down.  Needless to say, there were a few tense moments until they determined that they were a building crew on their way to work, most of them having a sleep in the back, and the heater didn't work, so the driver wore a balaclava to keep warm...Cheers,Liam</blockquote>

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