AGD
09-07-2002, 12:42 PM
I have reposted this from the "Shatnerball throught the eyes of Tom Kaye" thread so everyone will see it. This story comes from Scott Player who is doing our new Emag manual so we can trust what he says. Shatner himself confirmed this over at williamshatner.com.
Enjoy,
AGD
Tom Kaye's Leaky Brain Saga Revealed
Here is a little fill in information about why Shatner surrendered and Tom may have been suspicious.
For months before the game I had boasted to my friends that I would shoot shatner in the ***. I said this with no real intention what-so-ever of ever expecting to see the man on the field much less of shooting him. But as a good and self respecting paintballer I live for trash talking
I was pushing north through the woods with several other Borg players half way between our entrance point and their back tape line. At some point we started to lose a number of players. It seems that there was a force of "Redcoats" laying low in dried up creek bed in an ambush/defense position. I sniped several players out of the creek and ran around the other side to get at their backs. As I came close to the other side of the ravine I saw the tail end of their ambush and proceeded to shoot a whole bunch of the "Feds" in their backs. They had about a 270 degree cover around a central group of about six or seven people. As the other Borg finished off the ambushers I launched at the central group. Because they were so bunched up it was easy to eliminate them. All except one guy who literally dived (or got pushed under a big log).
When I moved on him I noticed that he lay there motionless and I was concerned that he had been injured (blown an ankle or something), I ran over yelling out "Are you alright? Are you hurt?" He continued to lay there with a bunch of what i thought were Refs around him. I had eliminated all the players around him so was not worried about getting shot but rather that he was OK. I tapped him on the shoulder to see if he was OK as he was still laying belly down. He started to get up much to my relief. It was at this point that I got a view of his face and realized who it was...."William? I exclaimed in shock as I looked into his eyes. "I don't think I got shot! Did anyone see me get shot?" he exclaimed. Everyone shook their head and said no. I stuck my barrel in his belly and suggested politely that he surrender to me. He told me that he surrendered and would like to be taken to my leader.
By this time our people were all over the place; probably 10 or more. I felt a little uncomfortable leading Shatner to Tom Kaye (What if I got lost and led him back to the Klingons...Yikes...and besides I was more intent on going and shooting some more players. I asked a near by player if he knew exactly how to get back to Tom Kaye. He said he did. I pointed at him and several other players and told them to escort Shatner to Tom. I yelled to see if there was a ref around. There was a young lady ref there. I asked her to accompany the squad back to Tom and make sure that shatner go there safely.
As they started off I headed in the opposite direction to realize that I was all tangled up in some weird black cable. It turned out to be microphone wire from the boom operator who was linked to a camera person. Cool I thought, I think they got that all on tape. So off I ran happy to know one thing. I had stood there with shatner literally laying at my feet. I could have shot him in both cheeks and painted a happy smile on his back to boot. Face it folks...making someone surrender is MUCH more fun. I did shake his hand before they escorted him off and I could'nt help thinking that that is the coolest 71 year old man in the Galaxy!
Post Note:
I had NO idea what delivering Shatner to poor Tom Kaye would do to his mental health. Sorry about that Tom...NOT!!!
Enjoy,
AGD
Tom Kaye's Leaky Brain Saga Revealed
Here is a little fill in information about why Shatner surrendered and Tom may have been suspicious.
For months before the game I had boasted to my friends that I would shoot shatner in the ***. I said this with no real intention what-so-ever of ever expecting to see the man on the field much less of shooting him. But as a good and self respecting paintballer I live for trash talking
I was pushing north through the woods with several other Borg players half way between our entrance point and their back tape line. At some point we started to lose a number of players. It seems that there was a force of "Redcoats" laying low in dried up creek bed in an ambush/defense position. I sniped several players out of the creek and ran around the other side to get at their backs. As I came close to the other side of the ravine I saw the tail end of their ambush and proceeded to shoot a whole bunch of the "Feds" in their backs. They had about a 270 degree cover around a central group of about six or seven people. As the other Borg finished off the ambushers I launched at the central group. Because they were so bunched up it was easy to eliminate them. All except one guy who literally dived (or got pushed under a big log).
When I moved on him I noticed that he lay there motionless and I was concerned that he had been injured (blown an ankle or something), I ran over yelling out "Are you alright? Are you hurt?" He continued to lay there with a bunch of what i thought were Refs around him. I had eliminated all the players around him so was not worried about getting shot but rather that he was OK. I tapped him on the shoulder to see if he was OK as he was still laying belly down. He started to get up much to my relief. It was at this point that I got a view of his face and realized who it was...."William? I exclaimed in shock as I looked into his eyes. "I don't think I got shot! Did anyone see me get shot?" he exclaimed. Everyone shook their head and said no. I stuck my barrel in his belly and suggested politely that he surrender to me. He told me that he surrendered and would like to be taken to my leader.
By this time our people were all over the place; probably 10 or more. I felt a little uncomfortable leading Shatner to Tom Kaye (What if I got lost and led him back to the Klingons...Yikes...and besides I was more intent on going and shooting some more players. I asked a near by player if he knew exactly how to get back to Tom Kaye. He said he did. I pointed at him and several other players and told them to escort Shatner to Tom. I yelled to see if there was a ref around. There was a young lady ref there. I asked her to accompany the squad back to Tom and make sure that shatner go there safely.
As they started off I headed in the opposite direction to realize that I was all tangled up in some weird black cable. It turned out to be microphone wire from the boom operator who was linked to a camera person. Cool I thought, I think they got that all on tape. So off I ran happy to know one thing. I had stood there with shatner literally laying at my feet. I could have shot him in both cheeks and painted a happy smile on his back to boot. Face it folks...making someone surrender is MUCH more fun. I did shake his hand before they escorted him off and I could'nt help thinking that that is the coolest 71 year old man in the Galaxy!
Post Note:
I had NO idea what delivering Shatner to poor Tom Kaye would do to his mental health. Sorry about that Tom...NOT!!!