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

[Peters, Rise J.]

I'm with you.  I live in a city.  Pennsic is not paradise, but it is safer than downtown DC, and I feel perfectly safe here walking around without an escort every time I go out after dark.

Get a grip, people.  Stay aware of your surroundings, ask for company when you feel the need, put tiki torches on darkened stretches of road.  All of those are good things.  Elaborate programs to deal with an occasional bad actor is overkill.

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> From: scry42 at cox.net [mailto:scry42 at cox.net]
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 10:15 AM
> To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> Subject: Re: Re: [MR] Pennsic Escort Service (Was, woman attacked at
> Pennsic)
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> 
> Now we have truly gone over the top.  I am running away from this 
> 
> I will not live in that much fear...  The world is just not 
> that scary a place.  It is a good place, and filled with 
> wonderful people.  It is wonderful to walk in solitude, it is 
> wonderful to walk with friends, I am mostly unafraid.  And I 
> will choose to make it a habit to be happy, and deal with 
> what comes to me, attempting to learn the lessons that come with it.
> 
> 
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> > 
> > From: "Roy B. Scherer" <rscherer at infionline.net>
> > Date: 2004/09/03 Fri AM 09:42:30 EDT
> > To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> > CC: Stacie Larson <csrpnt at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Re: [MR] Pennsic Escort Service (Was, woman attacked at
> >   Pennsic)
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> > 
> > end
> > 
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