[MR] Pennsic Escort Service (Was, woman attacked at Pennsic)

[Roy B. Scherer]

At 03:24 PM9/2/2004-0700, CECILY mka Stacie Larson wrote:

>- assuming way the heck more volunteers for Security, to include
>Escorts, what about Security Substations every few blocks?  Maybe Lord
>Bob in the place you're visiting can't walk you across all of Pennsic,
>but he could run you a block over to a substation.  There, you could
>wait in a safe location and the volunteers there could radio for a
>nearby Escort to come fetch you and take you where you need to go.

         ASSUMING many more volunteers, which is not at all a safe 
assumption, this would solve your Problem 4 as well.
         There wouldn't have to be discrete Security Substations, 
either.  Instead, individual encampments could embrace the opportunity to 
serve the Dream by arranging that there be one person present/awake/alert 
at all times in their encampment.  The tin-hat crowd -- sorry, Their Most 
August Majesties -- would no doubt offer suitable social rewards for such 
service.
         Such encampments could be marked by a special lantern, rather as 
callboxes for Campus Security are marked with special lights.  Strobes 
wouldn't be appropriate (IMHO), but standard candle-lanterns are available 
at WallyWorld and similar places.  A piece of blue transparent plastic 
film, cut to fit, could be slipped between the frame and the standard window'
         Whichever person had that duty at a given moment would have a 
radio (FRS radios are cheap) to call Escort Dispatch.  Radio wouldn't even 
have to be turned on most of the time -- only when a call had to be made, 
and while awaiting arrival of Escort.
         Duty in camp would presumably be handled same as fire or kitchen 
duties: "volunteer -- or we'll have to draft someone".
-- Britton Morgan


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