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Title: Medieval Re-Enactor Fatally Impales Himself Through Chest With Own Lance In 'Freak Accident'
Post by: endicom on October 11, 2018, 11:59:59 pm

Daily Wire
Joseph Curl
Oct. 11, 2018

A Medieval re-enactor playing the role of a jousting knight accidentally impaled himself with his own lance during a performance as spectators watched. He later died.

Peter Barclay, a 52-year-old father of two from Woodbridge, Virginia, was participating in the medieval festival equestrian games in Williamstown, Kentucky, when things went horrible wrong on Saturday.

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Title: Re: Medieval Re-Enactor Fatally Impales Himself Through Chest With Own Lance In 'Freak Accident'
Post by: Frank Cannon on October 12, 2018, 12:03:39 am

LOL. Stabbing yourself to death with your own lance. This is a first.

Title: Re: Medieval Re-Enactor Fatally Impales Himself Through Chest With Own Lance In 'Freak Accident'
Post by: endicom on October 12, 2018, 12:19:00 am

Quote from: Frank Cannon on October 12, 2018, 12:03:39 am

LOL. Stabbing yourself to death with your own lance. This is a first.

And you thought Monty Python was fiction.

Title: Re: Medieval Re-Enactor Fatally Impales Himself Through Chest With Own Lance In 'Freak Accident'
Post by: Smokin Joe on October 12, 2018, 01:14:48 am

Freak accident. Prayers up for friends and family.

Maybe the SCA should consider kevlar vests like Bull Riders wear for participants who run a remote risk of impalement. They'd fit under the rest of the kit and remain concealed.