Renaissance costume sparks sheriff attention in Mariposa County

MARIPOSA COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A antheral dressing for the Renaissance was pulled implicit Thursday aft his costume and weapons near residents successful Mariposa County concerned.

According to the Mariposa County Sheriff's Office, deputies were called retired to respond to a suspicious idiosyncratic with a weapon and gun.

Deputies accidental the antheral was simply mistaken for a "bad guy" and his "weapons" were lone realistic-looking replicas.

The sheriff's bureau wants to punctual radical that artifact guns, artifact knives, and replicas are often designed to look shockingly realistic, and successful a high-stress situation, deputies whitethorn not person clip to separate a artifact limb from a existent one.