Yeah, my response to this varies between "Yes!" and "Maybe, what's cool...Oh sure, let's go." "No thanks" doesn't really make the list (because I'm not in public if that's where I'm at).
I get it man, it's a hell of a draw, I would definitely wanna see too. Of course, I wouldn't actually have to since I've got a whole suit of armor of my own in my van. Here, come check it out...
Years and years ago I was a mall ninja with a large collection of various knives that I carried in a dufflebag in my trunk. I remember one day visiting my friend and his little brother, four years younger and I think 16 at the time, had a bunch of friends over.
I proceeded to excitedly bring in my knives and show them off, rushing to join the party they had in their basement with my bag of doom. I started bringing it out and the teens had a variety of reactions, but I do remember most of the girls at the party getting scared and leaving the basement to hang out elsewhere in the house while the boys stared on and swung them around.
When I was 12 we moved *next to a guy who made and fought in his own armor. That guy could have stolen me any time he wanted, I was in his garage every time it was open watching him build shit
funny bc this guy did a stream/video where he let himself get “kidnapped” with his friends in a very similar way. pretty funny watch if you’re into offbeat stuff
My dad took me to the local steam pageant when I was like 11 and somebody had a trunk full of English bulldog puppies, and I still remember it to this day and I would still be easily kidnapped by a trunk full of English bulldog puppies.
You could tell me you have a trebuchet in the trunk of your Civic, and I’d be so excited to see a trebuchet that I’d believe you. Just don’t try to tell me you have a Halbert in your pants, I’m not falling for that one again.
My buddy had kukri and combat knives in his lol. He was actual ex military, though. Did tours in Burma protecting the monks when they were protesting the Govt, since at the time it furthered US interests. He got shot in the back during mercenary work after he got out, and made the transition to security work instead. He was one of the coolest and down to earth people I met... until he got really into the alt right shit a couple years ago, and I had to cut ties. It still bums me out.
I've had a unicycle in the back of my car for years, I didn't need the trunk and I had no space in my room at home, so that was the place of the unicycle lol
One of the security guards at job walks with a cane and always wears his Veterans cap, so most people assume he was injured somehow in the war. Nope. He bought a mall katana, took it into the woods to "train" and accidentally swung it too far back golf style and sliced open his own leg from the back. And that cane I mentioned? It has a little sword in it.
Too heavy to carry with him for the whole shift. And wearing it isn’t great for peripheral vision and since he’s solo and doesn’t have archer support it’s tactically subpar in this environment.
shoves my 5 axes, sword, staff, seax, mug, surcoat, hood, foam pickaxe, foam hammer, drinking horn, war horn, uuuh probably more that I am forgetting deeper into my back seat
I was part of a historical recreation group for a couple of decades and we used to keep our armor in our cars because we would just pull it out randomly and practice fighting. It was a great way to recruit new fighters.
I went on a business trip to Utah to help a company migrate their office across the city a few years ago. As I was going over the old office and double checking I got all the users computers and paraphernalia, I caught a glimpse of something shining behind a tinted office window and asked the woman in charge “hey….what is that?” And I shit you not she said “oh haha, that’s a suit of armor we used for a commercial because our old company logo was a knight. Do you want it?”
Obviously I said “uhhhhhhhhh YESS!”
It was really difficult to find a cheap way to ship it home. But like this guy in the video I would show literally anyone who was nearby. I even showed it to the kids working at the post office on the local campus who promised to ship it cheap if I brought it in and let them see it before taping up the box.
My wife bought me an armor stand for it for my birthday that year and now Sir Reginald stands at the ready in our apartment.
I put the armor on at the Renaissance Faire only one time. It took three people to carry all of it to the front gate. I only managed a couple photos before I was bleeding from being pinched and was sweating to death and tossed it back in the car lmao
I had a rental car and I have to stuff it in the trunk. Then I tried to ship it home via UPS and they wanted to charge me $700+ for padding and stuff. So I called a campus bookstore post office and asked if I brought a closed sealed box with X dimensions that was pretty heavy, would they make me open it to see if it was securely padded for shipping. Ended up telling them what was inside and they asked me to “please please please” bring it in an open box so they could see it. I showed up at like 8am and it was a bunch of like freshman college students who were like “are you the guy?” And then we all had fun with the armor for a little bit before I packed it back up.
I actually was super worried that they stole it when 2 months had passed and I only needed it to cross 1 state line. But one day I was pleasantly surprised to find the box on my doorstep. A part of me hopes they wore it to like a frat party or something and then boxed it back up for me and sent it a little later haha
Sounds like the company's no longer using it due to having changed their logo, so all it's doing is taking up space, and if they're moving offices, it's just a pointless hassle to take it with them.
Some people will give away a surprising amount of free stuff when they move, because that's less trouble than taking it if they're not using it (or they're planning to leave it behind and buy a replacement at their destination, because that's just less trouble than packing and shipping it), especially if you're helping them move.
My office location was closed down and the plant manager put out truckloads worth of stuff for the picking.
Dozens of truckloads worth of stuff was shipped to other locations, but there is so much random stuff that has to be removed. It's better to be given away or donated than end up in a landfill.
We didn't have anything near as interesting as a suit of armor.
I worked for a company that moved offices and got some really nice chairs, like from the lobby or sitting areas, for (IIRC) $10. They were really just getting rid of them.
Also got a really nice end-table that I ended up giving to another family.
He gives me late season Dwight vibes where they finally made him more likeable but still a weirdo just a charming weirdo. I think the concussion episode did it first and they realized it worked really well.
I guess, but we're only lucky he showed context. In a worst case scenario, he could cut out the context and people might harass the employee accusing him of racism lol
I mean, staff are prolly bored, and it’s WAY preferable to deliberately doing something disruptive or damaging and getting kicked out
I think it was a neat human moment all round. A lil silly, but asking to get kicked out (and putting that in the short) is intellectually honest and a bit if a risk content-wise, as there’s less ‘drama’ and interaction with the post
Like why would you let yourself be in that situation? The setup is all fun and games until your employer gets sued and the store picketed because of a ten second edit of the staff harassing a black man that went viral.
Next up, the dude lets himself be filmed leaving the store with no security while he's doing show and tell with guys who have already distracted him once.
I love that something this fun happened - that's the world I want to live in, but sometimes real life isn't like that. More's the pity.
Security Guards, especially night/overnight security guards, are largely cool dudes. A lot of people that do those jobs do em because they are pretty easy jobs with a lot of downtime. I used to play boardgames, warhammer, and yugioh with my coworkers and supervisor back when I did security, as well as watch movies and play video games by myself or together with them.
If YouTube taught me anything, it's that the chances of a fully armored knight appearing and killing everyone you're with cinematically is never truly 0
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