Quote Originally Posted by Riverkilt View Post
Most curious. I wonder if there are actual cases on record of a knife/sword fight breaking out at Ren Faires or Highland Games? I wonder if there are cases on record of visitors to Ren Faires or Highland Games actually accidently cutting themselves, or someone else, with a knife or sword they brought or bought.
I can't speak to people getting cut, but I do recall a person being shot at the LA RenFaire back about 1978 or thereabouts. A group called "The Night Watch" used to fire a musket salute from a hill top as "good Queen Bess" would pass through the village. All went well until one of them forgot to remove the ramrod from his matchlock. A woman, about 300 yards away, ended up with the ramrod thru her arm, and it was lights out for "The Night Watch" as far as the Patterson's (producers of the RenFaire) were concerned.

Maybe that's why the guy's with the big swords look so serious. Maybe they're worried about having brought a sword to a gun fight.