[MR] Re: Follow up report on the combat arrow that hit IstvanToth

[Siegfried Sebastian Faust]

> > C) The 'spectator safety zone' was not properly marked, as is required
>when
> > Combat Archery is in effect, and therefore this guy didn't know he wasn't
> > in the safe zone.
>
>No, it was marked, and was a safe distance away.

Ok, thank you for the information.  I only listed it as a 'possibility' of 
a problem.  Not one that definitely occurred.

> > >2) Was a hold called, which would mean that shooting stopped? Or
> > >was combat still going on?
> >
> >  From getting more information on this topic from the Society Combat
> > Archery Marshal.  No hold.  The fighting was still going on.  Basically,
> > this guy was dead, walked over to the 'side' of the bridge, and removed
>his
> > helm to stand there and watch the fighting.
>
>Ummm, no.  My Lord Siegfried's version above, IMO, paints an inaccurate
>picture.  Sjt. Toth was killed on the bridge, he walked apx 50 feet from the
>end of the bridge and off at an angle from the corner, turned to watch the
>fighting, felt himself to be in a position far enough from the fighting to
>be safe, and took off his helmet.  He was not at the side of the bridge,
>which I've heard repeated, but he was indeed, not in the spectator area,
>either.  However, it is clear, he should not have done that, regardless of
>how safe he felt.

Sorry about that, upon re-reading my message, I realized that I was 
unclear.  Yes, by all reports he was past one end of the bridge... that's 
what I meant, but in my own, bad, language (thinking of the two 'sides' of 
forces, each having their own 'side' of the bridge, etc.   bad language, sorry)

In Service,
Siegfried


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THL Siegfried Sebastian Faust     Baronial Web Minister & Archery Marshal
Barony of Highland Foorde        http://highland-foorde.atlantia.sca.org/