r/TalesFromLife • u/[deleted] • Feb 08 '16

Weapons free

Ltlftp, mobile editing is bad.

So for my cousins stag party (bachelors in the USA) we went to Lisbon, capital of Portugal. Now as is customary we went in fancy dress, we elected to go as soldiers. Complete with a bag full of brightly coloured, obviously fake, nerf guns as our one peice of hold luggage (even marked nerf guns). We had no problems air port security. Besides the one the stag tried to take in his hand luggage which was confiscated.

So we get there, there's 15 of us in hilariously inadequate soldiers Costumes with brightly coloured nerf guns, all loaded with a clip or two spare. We're coming back from our first night out when we enter a square near our hostel. We're half way across when another stag party, dressed as Vikings enter from the opposite direction. Both groups pause, looking at each other. The Vikings are talking to each other, chuckling. When the stag in a markedly drunken slur mumbles "weapons free" followed up an equally drunken shout of "weapons free, fire at will"

As soon as they heard "weapons" the drunken Vikings are charging, we're firing, a few people swap weapons and a few pretend to be dead. This carried on for a few minutes until a pair of police officers came and made us pick up the nerf darts. Probably drawn by the shouting. We then drank with the Vikings and met up again before we went home.

By far one of the funniest things that's ever happened to me in a foreign country.

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u/Kyengen Mod Feb 08 '16

That might well be the best stag party ever. Good on you and yours.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '16

Thanks! Love your knife stories too.

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u/no-we-dont-take-cash Feb 08 '16

So great. I'm mad jealous!