Real-Life Weirdness

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

The thing is, European nations don't have the history with the Klan that the United States does.

It's also the ever popular, "If you have nothing to hide, then why do you need a mask?" that even citizens fall prey to.
I am glad that I frequented a local convenience store often enough that no one batted an eye when I forgot to take off my ski mask upon entering. My identifiable gait kept my idiot teenager head intact.
I feel for those with scars/deformities that may feel stared at even when wearing nondescript masks.

[Manycubes]

The Georgia Guidestones

I’m surprised this place has not made the list. It was built by a secret organization in the late 20th century to provide guidance to a future post apocalyptic society.

http://www.guidestones.us/

Were the builders future time travelers bringing a message back to their forbearers? A secret society with a hidden agenda covered up by apocalyptic misdirection? A group of cultists wishing to atone for their actions which will cause the destruction of all we know?

Would these stones have meaning to an actual post apocalyptic society or just be more undecipherable artifacts from the “time of man”?

Whole campaigns could be created around these stones and the group that built them, both before and after the apocalypse.

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Manycubes

The Georgia Guidestones

I’m surprised this place has not made the list.

http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.p...&postcount=203

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by johndallman

No. Banks and the like take exception to people coming in wearing masks, full-face motorcycle helmets and similar, because robbers have used them to conceal their faces, but there's no law against wearing masks, and an attempt to pass one would likely be treated as a sign that the would-be legislator needed to calm down a bit.

I used to have this problem with people when I worked at Circle K (a big convenience store chain in the Western US and Canada). Policy was that costumers had to be asked to remove masks. I once asked Santa to remove his beard on Christmas Eve, and I had a guy with one of those skull-bandana things that bikers wear refuse to remove it until I called the police (that was tense!).

[Manycubes]

Doh! That will teach me to try to skim an entire 54 page post while listening in on my business meetings.

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

I used to have this problem with people when I worked at Circle K (a big convenience store chain in the Western US and Canada). Policy was that costumers had to be asked to remove masks. I once asked Santa to remove his beard on Christmas Eve, and I had a guy with one of those skull-bandana things that bikers wear refuse to remove it until I called the police (that was tense!).

How is that a mask or in any way identity concealing?

[Mister Ed]

If it is what I think it is, it's a bandana that is printed with a skull and covers the lower half of your face.

This is what I'm thinking of, and if this was it, then I'd expect anybody with a no mask policy to object...

http://www.cruisercustomizing.com/images/MG-11573.jpg

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

How is that a mask or in any way identity concealing?

Because if he was to rob me (or attack me) neither I nor the camera could identify him to the police. "Yes officer I was attacked by Santa Claus. Yes the beard was fake, why do you ask?" Robbing a store on Christmas Eve dressed as Santa has happened and even makes sense from a criminal perspective (low police staffing combined with the likelihood that the Santa might not be asked to unmask).

Just because someone is dressed like Santa doesn't make them innocent.

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Because if he was to rob me (or attack me) neither I nor the camera could identify him to the police. "Yes officer I was attacked by Santa Claus. Yes the beard was fake, why do you ask?" Robbing a store on Christmas Eve dressed as Santa has happened and even makes sense from a criminal perspective (low police staffing combined with the likelihood that the Santa might not be asked to unmask).

Just because someone is dressed like Santa doesn't make them innocent.

You said that it was the biker with the bandana on his head that nearly resulted in police intervention, not the fake bearded guy.

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Mister Ed

If it is what I think it is, it's a bandana that is printed with a skull and covers the lower half of your face.

This is what I'm thinking of, and if this was it, then I'd expect anybody with a no mask policy to object...

http://www.cruisercustomizing.com/images/MG-11573.jpg

Oh well, then that's more of an old western bandit mask fit for robbing stage coaches and trains, than what I think of as a "biker bandana".
I was thinking skull as in the person's skull rather than face kerchief with a printed skull.