If game materials are dangerous, what does that make me?

[mikailborg]

NYC Ferry guard tries to confiscate role-playing book as "inappropriate".

I'm not even going to be sarcastic about this. This just makes me angry, and sad. Are we really going to have to give up all our freedoms one at a time in the interest of "public safety"?

Edit: According to Greg Costikyan's weblog, the New York Waterway folks are very red-faced about this and are attempting to get more details in order to take corrective action. Urge to kill falling... falling...

Comments

[vt-andros.livejournal.com]

Unhappiness with Friend Computer's policies is treason.

What is your name, citizen?

[eeedge.livejournal.com]

Heck, that opinion has been expressed in all seriousness in the local newspaper. Things like "If you publicly disagree with the President during wartime, then it should be considered treason." (Seriously paraphrased because I don't have it in front of me.)

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

Chunks of this country have gone completely insane. I guess some people really are more comfortable with dictatorships. :(

[epawtows.livejournal.com]

Shiesh. I've seen the cover of the book in question; if he'd been displaying it openly, I could understand a guard asking him to put it away. It's borderline pornography. But in a bag?

[epawtows.livejournal.com]

Replying to my own note: the book isn't the one that I thought it was. So, I'm even more mystified as to why a guard would object to it.

Is a ferryboat guard going to know what an RPG book is?

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

Nobody can figure out his motivation. There've been some joking guesses that the guard was a broke gamer and just trying to swipe this copy of a book he wanted - but seriously, since the Waterways folk insist it's not their idea, no one can figure out why this guy did that. :( Maybe he attends one of those "RPGs are the tools of Satan!" groups in the evenings, and saw this as his chance to strike a blow.