Scottish Fairs—where tents go to die

[KiltedKnome]

I can certainly sympathize. Years ago at the Victoria Highland Games, high winds moved in at the end of the first day. Usually vendors just close up their tents and depart for the evening, since security is on the grounds. That year, though, everyone decided to lower their tents and "batten down the hatches", so to speak. While we were staking down our partially-lowered tent, the woman in the tent next to us unhooked a plywood sign she had..... The wind grabbed the sign and using it as a sail, lifted her (still holding on) and the sign (and her tent) up in the air and dumped them onto our tent - snapping metal trusses and legs, ripping our tent, scattering merchandise, etc. Our tent neighbour survived, thank goodness, but she was taken away in an ambulance for treatment of some fairly severe facial and dental injuries. She was lucky that she was not impaled! Aluminium tent legs snap easily, and can easily penetrate a body.