Wawra, who lives in Kala­ma­zoo, Mich., is a police offi­cer. While on a recent visit to Cal­gary, he and his wife, Deb­bie, were approached by two young men on a path­way in Nose Hill Park, who asked the Wawras if they had been to the Stam­pede yet. When they asked the ques­tion a sec­ond time, Wawra moved between the men and his wife and told them he had no need to talk to them. He said they looked “bewil­dered.” The par­ties then went their sep­a­rate ways.

Unreal.

Great com­ment from a reader on The Herald’s website:

“I can see why they were fright­ened. If you rearrange the let­ters in ‘been to Stam­pede yet?’ you get “a beset pot­ted enemy’.”