*facepalm*
May. 15th, 2013 04:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/15/university-norwich-star-wars-club-fight
... there were apparently confrontations in costume, and allegations of assault, but CCTV said they never.
I heard there was a Thing between clubs and it all sounded a bit like Drama, but this is still a bit much. I mean, that sentence is pretty much 100% of what I heard, that there seemed to be a Thing, so I have no idea. But now it's in the papers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10058597/May-the-force-be-with-you-police-defuse-bizarre-Star-Wars-fair-row.html
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/darth_brawl_sci_fi_fans_turn_to_the_dark_side_in_clash_at_norwich_star_wars_convention_1_2194235
That's two references to the force, as in police, and one Darth Brawl.
*facepalm*
Norwich Science Fiction Group, the pub thing I will once again fail to get to tonight, is yet a third group, nothing to do with the other two.
... you'd think I'd be able to find people to talk to about SF in Norwich then. If I could actually find them and get there.
The more I look, the more newspapers I find, saying pretty much the exact same things. I guess this is pretty irresistable, as stories go.
Police were called to a sci-fi convention after a confrontation between costumed characters from rival clubs.
Trouble flared when members of the Norwich Sci-Fi Club were refused entry to a fair hosted by the Norwich Star Wars Club at the University of East Anglia.
... there were apparently confrontations in costume, and allegations of assault, but CCTV said they never.
I heard there was a Thing between clubs and it all sounded a bit like Drama, but this is still a bit much. I mean, that sentence is pretty much 100% of what I heard, that there seemed to be a Thing, so I have no idea. But now it's in the papers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10058597/May-the-force-be-with-you-police-defuse-bizarre-Star-Wars-fair-row.html
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/darth_brawl_sci_fi_fans_turn_to_the_dark_side_in_clash_at_norwich_star_wars_convention_1_2194235
That's two references to the force, as in police, and one Darth Brawl.
*facepalm*
Norwich Science Fiction Group, the pub thing I will once again fail to get to tonight, is yet a third group, nothing to do with the other two.
... you'd think I'd be able to find people to talk to about SF in Norwich then. If I could actually find them and get there.
The more I look, the more newspapers I find, saying pretty much the exact same things. I guess this is pretty irresistable, as stories go.