Just a quick note. One ofthe Md. crew borrowed my armor for Dcon. While walking through the crowds he felt a thump on his back, he turned around to tell whom ever hit him to not hurt themselves. Laughingly it was to late a some girl was holding her hand in tears. Yes she punched him that hard, not realizing it wasn't plastic but steel.

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One shot, One kill.

hehehehe Take THAT!!

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"Chief Bartender for the Naughty Corner Bar"

Carpe Crustulum!! (seize the cookie!!)

Part of me is very sorry that she hurt her hand- it isn't cool.

But part of me thinks of it as sweet justice. It happens all too often that some idiot just has to check your armour's "ability" by punching you square in the gut or back or bashing you on top of your head while wearing your helmet (which happens a lot to the shorter Marines like myself ).

What stops us from turning around and cold cocking one of those idiots, wiping the stupid smug smile off their faces is beyond me sometimes!

Unfortunately this time it happened to a girl... but at the same time why hit someone that hard? Suppose the armour wasn't steel? What was she trying to prove?

You know what? I'm a little less sorry she hurt herself. Idiot.

Kevin

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I told you I'd shoot, but you didn't believe me! WHY DIDN'T YOU BELIEVE ME!?!

In all my years of costuming I've found nothing pisses me off more than when
someone tries to assert their ego, usually in front of their friends, by
trying to shove over/trip/break/or just straight up attack someone in costume.
Cpl Potter, Thundergod, and I saw a pretty good display of stupidity, at D*con no less,
when some guy ran by and tried to darn near trip over one of the original Cylon Costumers.
This guy, the cylon, wasn't to happy about it and chased that guy outside.
I notice more and more often that its the teenage generation, and their lack of morals,
that attempts the acts. I don't feel sorry for the girl one bit, she got every bit of what
she deserved. Dumbass.....!

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If you accept pocket lint as a currency well I'll take it all!

The first time I wore my Clone Trooper armor, some guy wacked me on top of my my head so hard that my eyes rang... I just couldn't belive it.

I've found it's not just in armor that costumers get unwanted attention. As Batman, I've had several knuckleheads think about starting something. I don't know if it happens to Superman or Green Lantern, but the Bat sure seems to draw the idiots. Maybe it's the cowl. With so many menacing looking cowls, you can look pissed off just standing there. Trying to remember, but I think it was when wearing Bat armor that drew most of the loutish behavior. Hmmm, maybe it is the armor!

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USCM- The Colonial Marines- A Brotherhood of Bad Asses!

I was up at the Marriott bar talking to Thumper and a couple of his friends Saturday night when a couple of frat boy types passed a steampunk costumer wearing a backpack with a coiled cord coming out of it. One of them reached out and yanked the cord out as they walked by and I went after them. Unfortunately I lost them in the crowd.

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~Jay

I have been known to say 'touch me and die' to mundane men who think its all spiffy to mess with the tall girl (hey lets see if thats really a girl) then follow up with a nice whack if they continue with the planned 'female test'
yeah this happened to me twice... I didnt think I look that much like a man sheeesh

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"Chief Bartender for the Naughty Corner Bar"

Carpe Crustulum!! (seize the cookie!!)

yah man, there was this dude this year, told me to hold still on a dolly then damn near droped me on my ass......thank god i had my s6 haversack bag to pad y ass for the fall

lol love ya rex



i've had the "can i test your armor" question before....funny thing is i always said yes cause it was REAL riot armor(RE: Centuerion) and the idiots hurt themselves roflmao

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Beserker
Brian "Anubian" Webb
WYI/TQ1.0.04837E5
U.S.S. Nemesis
Weyland Yutani Inmate

I felt sooooo bad when that happened! It happened in slow motion for me, and I kept saying "Please don't let him be hurt!"

Teach me to make damn sure the trick ass convertable dolly is FULLY LATCHED!!

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USCM- The Colonial Marines- A Brotherhood of Bad Asses!

And what would these morons do if, when punched, your armor promptly shattered?

And you'd think that being in an environment such as DragonCon, it would be full of people that would have a little more respect for your costume.

And as far as going after the person, how would that work? If you start a fight, more of your costume would be ruined.

I don't know, maybe this is why I haven't been to a con since 2001. Not that I had a bad experience costume-wise, but all the horror stories makes my blood boil.

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"Awww, someone tell me that's a boot!

It's a boot!"

III drops

It happens because you look better than they do.
They feel belittled when they see you being different and possibly having more fun that they are.
So, to make themselves feel better, they take the easy option of trying to destroy you in some way.

I get this a lot as a biker, especially riding a Cruiser.
Easy Rider said it best:

George Hanson: You know, this used to be a helluva good country. I can't understand what's gone wrong with it.
Billy: Man, everybody got chicken, that's what happened. Hey, we can't even get into like, a second-rate hotel, I mean, a second-rate motel, you dig? They think we're gonna cut their throat or somethin'. They're scared, man.
George Hanson: They're not scared of you. They're scared of what you represent to 'em.
Billy: Hey, man. All we represent to them, man, is somebody who needs a haircut.
George Hanson: Oh, no. What you represent to them is freedom.
Billy: What the hell is wrong with freedom? That's what it's all about.
George Hanson: Oh, yeah, that's right. That's what's it's all about, all right. But talkin' about it and bein' it, that's two different things. I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are. Oh, yeah, they're gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em.
Billy: Well, it don't make 'em runnin' scared.
George Hanson: No, it makes 'em dangerous.

This year at DCon, my third, I noticed a new group of people showing up at the hotels at night: college frat boy types. Every Labor Day weekend, as with DCon, a college football game is played in Atlanta and fans of the teams playing pour into downtown with con goers. Most of them are families, older alumni, etc. But many students come out for it, too.

Combined with local college kids who have heard about the famous DCon nightlife, they now come out in droves. They hang out at the bars, gawk at the girls in their costumes (some treating them rudely) and making fun of the guys, crashing parties, stuff like that. As I've posted before, some of them mess with costumers as some kind of fun.

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~Jay

Teen punks don't want to mess with me. I hope people do realize that Costumers and Geeks are from all walks of life these days, you may pick on the wrong guy... who loves say Aliens... and likes to tone the crap out of his muscles and spends 28 hours a week studying martial arts.

Why are people so disrespectful of other people's stuff?

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"The worth and value of a man is in his heart and his will; there lies his real honor. Valor is the strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul..." -Michel de Montaigne

because they are "normal" and were just "geeks". but oyur right about the "all walks of life" over in the WPE, 20% of the group is cops,ex/current armed forces hehe lets see a frat boy frack with them

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Beserker
Brian "Anubian" Webb
WYI/TQ1.0.04837E5
U.S.S. Nemesis
Weyland Yutani Inmate

I had one girl at D*C tap with her fist on my Biker Scout armor and when I turned around, she said she just wanted to see what it was made of. I'm not aware of any superpowers that allow you to analyze the molecular make up of an object by rapping on it, but what do I know? I would have thought it would have been easier to just say, "Hey ... what's that made of?"

But the day someone actually knocks me down, gives me a good punch, or breaks my armor, it best knock me out. I'll brake the rest of it opening a can of whoop ass.

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Mark
"Memento mori"
"Guess she don't like the cornbread either."

Do the same to her tits.

Hell yes.

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Mark
"Memento mori"
"Guess she don't like the cornbread either."

Being a cop myself, I am used to some of that crap. In my duty uniform, you touch me, you get hurt and then you go to jail. In any costume, off duty, I am still in that mentality, I watch the crowd, I observe, you invade my space, I will turn around and address it. You try and touch me, well, you'll find out just how much of a mistake that was.

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United States Colonial Marine Corps
Private J.Hughes
A05/TQ0.0.12152E1

CURRENTLY IN TRAINING
Basic Training
&
Smartgunner Specialty School

Just remember, you kill anything that has more n' two legs you git me?

Really, I do the same thing too, I need me a REAL MI blade for that tho.. I spent good money on my stuff!

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Jeffrey Hughes "Huggies"
Corporal, USCM
UD-4 "Cheyenne" Pilot
Dropship Argonne

Good luck...those are rare...

Like, I think the only one was the one Zim used.


Derek

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Cpl D. Smith CMD
A04/TQ1.0.62147E1


RIP Pvt. Chris Chulamanis A14/TQ4.0.66993E7 You are missed.

I know someone was selling a blank for one

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Jeffrey Hughes "Huggies"
Corporal, USCM
UD-4 "Cheyenne" Pilot
Dropship Argonne

you don't hurt people, its "physical injury due to suspect actively resisting a police order'

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PFC Mike Rizzuto MVM
USS Blackhawk
3rd Batt 12th Regt

Thats how its written in the report lol... How did you hit him in the face with your baton? "I didn't sir, I attempted to strike same in the upper arm, and the suspect proceeded to duck"

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Jeffrey Hughes "Huggies"
Corporal, USCM
UD-4 "Cheyenne" Pilot
Dropship Argonne

This year seemed really bad with the frat kids. My friend Jeff was in his dark helmet from spaceballs and people were bashing his helmet all weekend long. Sometimes I wish I had a stun gun with me just for a attitude adjustment.