bohemiancoast

That's the one. I can remember getting some very concerned questions from relatives one Christmas when it became known that I was a roleplayer.

Of course, I couldn't quite understand what all the fuss was about because I was a die-hard Traveller player and considered all that fantasy stuff as rather daft.

Did you see the news story about the moose that brought down a helicopter?

I knew someone who did something like this in the early eighties - committed some petty thefts and blamed them at least in part on role-playing when he was caught. Not terribly clever...

Mr Boyd, who said he visits a psychiatrist regularly,

I'm sure that he does. Only the psychiatrist is actually a qualified mongoose whom he visits at his clinic in the Bahamas.