unicornforge
First Sergeant
- Joined
- Feb 14, 2007
- Location
- Near Gettysburg, PA
On TV yesterday, one of the court-type-shows showed two reenactors. One was the organizer of an event who had about $4,000 of equipment destroyed. The culprit was another reenactor who appeared at the last minute dressed as General Lee at the last minute as a walk-on. He/Lee decided to implement his own plan to rally the troops, without the knowledge or approval of the organizers, grabbed a flag, ran to the front, and when they tried to get him off the field he knocked over torches that lit the grass on fire destroying equipment including cannon carriages. The judge sided with the nutty General Lee impersonator who, on camera, insisted that the south would rise again, and that he wanted to change the outcome of the battle. The judge insisted that without a written script, and without somehow making the script known and available to the walk-on-Lee, that the reenactor could not be held accountable for the damage.
Shocking, to say the least.
Shocking, to say the least.