Leave your Boadswords and Claymores at home

[Monkey@Arms]

And those are just the wee bairns.

Leave my family out of this.

Best regards,

Jake

[highland mafia]

Maybe, but you'd be surprised at what some Americans and Canadaians wear to highland games: broadswords, claymores, pistols, dirks, Lochaber axes, machetes, maces...the display can be mind-boggling! I'm sure it is these sorts the constabulary have in mind.

Hey speak for your own side of the border! . I've been going many games all over Canada since I was a kid. This year I'm playing at seven. And I've never seen anyone other then re-enactors with any kind of weapon. To be honest I think it's pretty silly to be decked out in all kinds of stuff like that. After all it's one thing to wear a kilt but come on it's 2009 for goodness sake.

P.S. It's spelt Canadian my Americaian cousin.

[Seeria]

Makes sense to me. Games and even at some re-enactment events (SCA namely) I see people with weapons and the poor folks that get in the way. *CLEAR*

[JSFMACLJR]

Hey speak for your own side of the border! . I've been going many games all over Canada since I was a kid. This year I'm playing at seven. And I've never seen anyone other then re-enactors with any kind of weapon. To be honest I think it's pretty silly to be decked out in all kinds of stuff like that. After all it's one thing to wear a kilt but come on it's 2009 for goodness sake.

P.S. It's spelt Canadian my Americaian cousin.

Guess what, Highland Mafia? I was born in Woodstock, Ontario, just up the Governor's Road from London! The extra "a" was a typo. And you know, I've been going to games in Canada since 1963.

While there aren't as many crazies at the Canadian games as there are at the American ones I've attended, I certainly have seen dirks and axes worn and carried by Canadians.

Perhaps we are Canadian cousins!

Cheers,
J. Sandford Fleming MacLean

[planemaker]

No weapons....well...whats the point?

[Piper]

I'm not much for attending Highland Games, but from some of the descriptions, I might be missing a show. Some of them sound like the kind of Gin Mills my younger brother and I sometimes frequented as wastrel youths. Our Grandfather referred to them as "skull orchards". They'd check on the way in to see if you were armed. If not, they'd offer you something.

[SteveB]

It is all about respect for the laws of any country that you visit. Learn them before you go. If not than plan on an extended stay at the host nations limited travel resort.

I find it advisable for my travels just north of the border. (Canada, mostly Nova Scotia, and Ontario)

Slainte

[10buckstew]

It's a shame. I thought it could be added to the the list; "The 15", "The 45", and now-
"The '09".
--Just kidding, of course!

[thescot]

Lothians police have issued a statement saying that anyone who comes to the Gathering in July at Holyrood Park in Edinburgh( the biggest clan gathering since Sir Walter Scott invited King George to come to Edinburgh and this visit reinstated the kilt as the national dress of Scotland) and brings with them a sword then they will be arrested immediately.
I suppose they are talking about the clan re-actments which faeture these weapons.
The sgian dubh will still be allowed

Whew! This confirms what I have suspected for some time.

There's a pack of idiots in charge of government in other countries, too. It's not just us (the USA).

[Bigkahuna]

What's a party without some assorted weaponry???:ootd: