Like you said, weapons hav to be zip tied for safe reasons, but i think some guy got yelled at last year because even though his spear was blunt, he was being a drunk and swinging it around and hit some kid in the face.
I couldn't find anything on spears. I know when we went last year there was people walking around with them, but they might have been blunt tippes.
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