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== Real Life ==
* Most airports will prevent you from carrying a cane onto your flight unless it's apparent that you need it to support yourself. This is presumably because any terrorist trying to hijack a plane with a stick would be too stupid to pretend to limp. Or you need it because you are blind. The airline can require you to bring a doctor's note, and this has been the case since well before 9/11. They also tend to frown upon the more explicitly weaponized canes that are weighted, have additional knobs for joint locks, or have the pointed hook end.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130513131722/http://www.florilegium.org/files/DISABILITIES/disabilities-msg.html Sir Kief av Kierstad], one-legged fighter in the [[Society for Creative Anachronism]], has achieved knighthood with a single sword and crutch. As immortalized in Leslie Fish's [[Filk Song]] "The Cripples' Shield Wall."
* [[Andrew Jackson]] once defeated a would-be assassin (whose guns jammed... [[No One Should Survive That|all of]] [[Chew Toy|them]]) with a cane. This was the first attempt to assassinate a US President; being in 1835, both of the assassin's guns were flintlocks.
* In 1856, after Senator Charles Sumner berated Senator Andrew Butler for fighting for slavery (which included much ridicule on his mannerisms), Butler's nephew, Senator Preston Brooks, retaliated by beating him with his heavy cane until it broke. As would be expected in pre-[[The American Civil War|Civil War]] America, Brooks was hailed a hero in the South (with Sumner the same in the North).
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