Medieval Knight Re-enactor Killed After Accidentally Impaling Himself with His Lance

Yahoo News ^ | Oct 10, 2018

[11th_VA]

Feudal system was a result of William the Conquerer invading England. All the Anglo Saxons became serfs. Maybe one day we’ll get our country back (/sarcasm)

[11th_VA]

BTW, Sunday is the anniversary of the battle of Hastings ...

[Salvavida]

Hope he knew Jesus.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I read about Assegai spears and thought it would be cool to order one from Amazon. But, then I thought that something like this might happen and didn’t act on the impulse.

[Yo-Yo]

Hoisted on his own Petard.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=16&v=VGQ-XIg4c-4

[shelterguy]

Peter went to spear a paper plate while on horseback when something went wrong and his lance impaled him under his sternum, WLWT confirms.

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Sad story and all but how do you get killed by a paper plate?

[CivilWarBrewing]

Vlad the self-impaler?

Boy, he really stuck it to himself.

[CivilWarBrewing]

The paper plate won.

[Tax-chick]

Very sad, but accidents happen with sharp implements. My sympathy to his family and friends.

[Joe 6-pack]

Two weeks from today is the anniversary of Agincourt.

[Flag_This]

Chainmail. Wear it.

[Pelham]

I once got curious about what petards could possibly have been... they were gunpowder explosives used for breaching castle walls. Like medieval C-4. Apparently they were a bit twitchy and more than few medieval combat engineers got hoisted.

[RedMonqey]

Sad story and all but how do you get killed by a paper plate?

It's cousin, the Bill of Rights, told him about the 2nd Amendment and armed itself.

[11th_VA]

Agincourt - where the French cavalry got ‘bogged down’ literally.

[al baby]

Do you know what one calls a Medieval masturbaitor ?

Pounding Serf

[Cvengr]

Chinette!

[JennysCool]

Dilly dilly!

[Joe 6-pack]

Probably apocryphal, but some legend has it that raising the middle finger as an act of defiance had its roots at Agincourt. As the story goes, the French so hated the English archers that if captured, they would lol of the archer’s middle fingers rendering them ineffective. In defiance the archers would flip the bird to the French arrayed before them.

[P.O.E.]

I always assumed a petard was a rope/pulley deal to help get a weighted down knight (chain mail, etc.) up onto his horse. Now that I looked it up, I like the saying even better.