"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 the police dumped out his backpack and rifled through its contents... Barrett is "champion of Twilight Peak" and weapons safety officer for a 15th century role-playing game called AMTGARD."

Apparently his foam weapons are being linked to terrorism. Hopefully his armor has a +20 against bullets.

LARPing The Toronto Train System

"This week, the American Lung Association issued a strong recommendation for the military to discontinue the use of open-air trash burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan... The military authorized more than a hundred burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. The largest were operated by private contractors Halliburton and KBR, designed to burn everything from military equipment to medical supplies, batteries and hazardous waste... "I do not want to see these burn pits become the Agent Orange of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.""

Downwind, Soldiers Huff Burning Trash