*Ø* Blogmanac August 23, 1993 | Roll over Shakespeare

The Western Daily Press reported that actor Gareth Gilchrist, who was flying home from Edinburgh, Scotland to play Caithness in a production of Macbeth, had a stage-prop flick-knife with him that was picked up by the airport metal detector. He was arrested by police officer Heather McBeth, who was reported to have quipped, “Is this a dagger I see before me?”