# Roleplaying Elf guilty of robbery
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roleplaying-elf-guilty-of-robbery/395254
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 9, 2007, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roleplaying-elf-guilty-of-robbery/395254 "2007-03-09T15:19:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2007, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roleplaying-elf-guilty-of-robbery/395254/1 "2007-03-09T15:19:43Z")
From the [Beeb](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6430683.stm);
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> A man who dressed up as Buho, a female elf, has been convicted by a jury at Belfast Crown Court of taking underwear from a shop in a knifepoint raid.
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> In his defence, Boyd claimed that due to pressures that he was suffering in his work and marriage and his indulgence in a role-playing game called “Shadow Run”, he thought he may have been playing the part of criminal elf Buho when he threatened the lone female shop owner at knifepoint after asking for a discount.
:dubious:
To be honest, there are some right wierdos working at our uni’, one of the computer technicians looks like Dudley Moore and another has an uncanny resemblence to the secret agent in Stingray ([and he ain’t human](http://www.wvip.co.uk/images/dvd/Stingray/X2Zero.jpg))
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### Author:  [@xnylder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xnylder)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2007, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roleplaying-elf-guilty-of-robbery/395254/2 "2007-03-09T15:34:42Z")
This guy is obviously deranged. Come on, yer in character in Shadowrun and you go lifting ladies’ knickers? I mean, at least he could’a decked some credsticks outta the store safe or gone all hermetic and arranged a pentagram out of garters. Savvy, chummers?
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roleplaying-elf-guilty-of-robbery/395254/3 "2007-03-09T17:19:43Z")
BLUE ELF STOLE THE UNDERWEAR! BLUE ELF NEEDS FOOD BADLY!
Shadowrun is one word. Do yer research, BBC.
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2007, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roleplaying-elf-guilty-of-robbery/395254/4 "2007-03-09T17:23:19Z")
Stealing underwear is only the first step…
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### Author:  [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2007, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roleplaying-elf-guilty-of-robbery/395254/5 "2007-03-09T18:15:34Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu]
Stealing underwear is only the first step…
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Yes, there must have been some sort of plan to profit from the theft. If only we knew what that missing step was…
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roleplaying-elf-guilty-of-robbery/395254/6 "2007-03-09T18:32:50Z")
Great. Blame the RPG culture again. Do people blame the chef culture everytime someone gets killed with a kitchen knife? :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2007, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roleplaying-elf-guilty-of-robbery/395254/7 "2007-03-09T19:15:15Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace]
Great. Blame the RPG culture again. Do people blame the chef culture everytime someone gets killed with a kitchen knife? :rolleyes:
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If they did so while in character as a chef preparing suckling pig, yes.
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### Author:  [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roleplaying-elf-guilty-of-robbery/395254/8 "2007-03-09T19:38:30Z")
He should have brought a bag of holding. Then he would have gotten away with it.
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### Author:  [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roleplaying-elf-guilty-of-robbery/395254/9 "2007-03-09T21:55:09Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace]
Great. Blame the RPG culture again. Do people blame the chef culture everytime someone gets killed with a kitchen knife? :rolleyes:
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Of course not! We blame the knife manufacturer for being so irresponsible as to make such an incredibly dangerous device without proper safety features.
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### Author:  [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roleplaying-elf-guilty-of-robbery/395254/10 "2007-03-09T22:04:09Z")
Blue Elf Has Been Stealing All The Underwear Lately.
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### Author:  [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roleplaying-elf-guilty-of-robbery/395254/11 "2007-03-10T18:37:25Z")
Stupid elf poser. Underwear is an unnatural imposition of human society’s mores.
(This message brought to you by the Society for the Advancement of Daisy-Eating Back-to-Nature Elven Agendas.)
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### Author:  [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roleplaying-elf-guilty-of-robbery/395254/12 "2007-03-10T18:50:23Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu]
Stealing underwear is only the first step…
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I betcha he would have gotten away with it if he was roleplaying a gnome instead.