By Canadian Press

‘Motivated by hate.’ Vandals trash role-playing business in Cape Breton

May 9, 2019 | 12:38 PM

SYDNEY, N.S. — A group of teenage vandals is being blamed for trashing a Cape Breton business where people gather in the woods to enjoy live action role-playing dressed as warriors, wizards and all manner of medieval characters.

The camp, on private property near a secluded lake southeast of Sydney, has been spray-painted with homophobic slurs, crude images and obscene insults.

Amid smashed shelving and furniture, a tarp used for a makeshift tent has the word “nerd” sprayed in red letters.

Mark Delaney, a player who used to help create imaginary battles and adventures for the Underworld LARP Cape Breton franchise, says police have been called in to investigate.

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Delaney says he believes the vandals, who struck on Monday night, are mostly misguided teens, but he says some of them appear to be motivated by hate.

He says a significant number of the business’s clients are members of Cape Breton’s LGBTQ community.

The Canadian Press

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