Larpers Sebastian Wozniak, left, and Anthony Klier, right, face drug charges. Credit: Facebook

Larpers Sebastian Wozniak, left, and Anthony Klier, right, face drug charges.
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Two pals in the western suburbs learned a valuable lesson the hard way: if you report a robbery to the police, they’re going to ask what was stolen.

This cleveland.com story has some details about the arrests of 20-year-old Bay Village resident Sebastian Wozniak and 22-year-old Avon Lake resident Anthony Klier. “Wozniak and Klier contacted police and said they had been robbed by a group of teenagers, but didn’t say what the teenagers had stolen,” it says. Westlake police apparently then went through Wozniak’s phone and determined the robbery was during a $80 weed deal.

I’m mostly sharing this cleveland.com story to highlight this fantastically sad paragraph:

According to police, Wozniak, 20, and Anthony Klier, 22, of Avon Lake, met a group of teenagers in the parking lot of a Westlake Taco Bell on Sept. 4 to practice medieval sword-fighting.

Yup, that’s right, practicing “medieval sword fighting” (a.k.a. “larping“) in the parking lot of a Westlake Taco Bell. Throw in getting your weed stolen by a group of teenagers and drug trafficking charges when you report it, and you’ve got yourself a sadness trifecta.

I found the photo of Wozniak and Klier for this story on facebook and was able to track down some security footage from that Westlake Taco Bell here:

Youtube video

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This article appears in Jan 8-14, 2014.

Doug Brown is a staff writer at Scene with a passion for public records laws and investigative reporting. A native of Ann Arbor, Mich., he has an M.A. in journalism from the Kent State University School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a B.A. in political science from Hiram College. Prior to joining Scene, Doug was a contributing writer for Deadspin.com, reporting behind-the-scenes stories about college sports through public records and developing sources. Doug's work as an enterprise reporter for the Daily Kent Stater was recognized by the Cleveland Press Club (2013 Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards), Society of Professional Journalists (regional and national Mark of Excellence Awards), and the Associated Collegiate Press. He spent the summer of 2012 working for the Metro desk of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and spent previous summers working for Outside Bozeman Magazine and Crain's Detroit Business. His website is dougbrown8.com.

5 replies on “After Larping At A Westlake Taco Bell Parking Lot, Two Men Report Weed Robbery To Cops”

  1. Too Funny! I don’t have speakers so I watch things silent, but that ‘security footage from TB is pretty good camera work! LOL

  4. Well, this is quite possibly the worst piece of writing I’ve read in a while. Assuming anything medieval is larping, first off. Look up SCA and tell me if those guys look like they’re role playing. If you say they are, challenge one of them to a fight on their field to prove them as weak. I dare you.

  5. Gee, I would love to try some larping, but I’m too busy having a life and not living in fantasyland. Aww, shucks.

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