Archery: As Unsafe as You Make It

New safety rule: Know your target and the ignorance of what is beyond it.

". . . another counselor started a potato sack race behind our targets. When I asked her to move, she said "It's alright, the targets are blocking us."

The trust implicit in that statement is almost sweet, but the ignorance is chilling. I don't mean to pick on her--maybe she really just doesn't know any better, and if you'd never used a bow and arrow before, how would you know?--but if there hadn't been one person on scene with enough experience to know a very unsafe idea when he saw it, this could have turned out to be a tragic day in St. Louis.