Mostpeople does it again :(

[AO Moderation Team]

"Bah."

Bah

[mistur_sleepyass]

all I have to say is impressive.

[fishmishin]

I am gonna have to say, follow the rules !! I know it may have seen safe to you and it may have been, but the it is as simple as follow the rules. He may have been a little harsh with throwing you out, and not giving you a warning first but then again think of it like this. ALL IT TAKES IS FOR ONE KID TO SEE YOU DOING THAT, AND HIM TRYING IT HIMSELF FOR SOMEONE TO GET HURT !! IMO it just isn't worth it. Saftey should always be everyones first priority, but with most of us being the older players it is up to us to set the best example we can for the younger players to carry on the sport in a safe manner. Like it has already been said, all it takes is one accident to shut a field down for good, and a bad accident doesn't help anyone's insurance rates. We already pay enough for insurance as it is. I do think however that you should go back and try to talk to the owner and once again set an example , show everybody there that you are a better player, because we could definitely use some more better players on the field to help bring player integrity back to the game!!

[Reiner]

As a fieldowner I'm going to have to agree with virtually everyone else in the thread.

Having said that, I've never literaly thrown a player out for dry firing. It's always been soeone that doesn't know the policy (although most fields have the same policy) and written signs can be missed. I've never had anyone argue with me or continue to break the rule either after I've told them to stop and informed them about the policy, otherwise I probably would throw them out.

So what is the whole story? You said "they called the field owner to tell me to leave". I have a feeling a call was placed because you gave them a hard time about it. Did you perhaps argue with them that what you did, couldn't possibly cause any harm, as you have stated here? I have a feeling there is more to it, other than you dry fired and they immediately asked you to leave without having any sort of discussion with you.

Perhaps you got on their bad side already with something you did previous to the dry firing?

There are always two sides to every story.

[questionful]

Wow. I remember this thread...

How bad is it when I come back to AO for the first time in months and the same threads are still on page one?

[Konigballer]

[Watcher]

The field I like has a rule about dry firing.

They say you can dry fire with no hopper and no barrel, but only a few times.
If you start to push strings, like dry firing as fast as you can, then they get angry.


Always check the field rules, if the orientation is the only place to hear them, wait to prep your gear after you go to orientation.

[punkncat]

Lol, sure are a lot of necro threads floating around lately.

[malJohann]

Lol, sure are a lot of necro threads floating around lately.

AO, forum of the undead threads, markers and some ancient undead members too. AGD is undead.

[KiNgStiNg]

you guys would laugh at the paintball field i grew up on, however to me it was paradise.i remember being 14 sitting on the back of a truck drinking from a bottle of whiskey getting ready to go into a night game.hell the field owner sold beers out of a cooler.it was on an old mine dump in South Africa. when nobody was there he used to let me run around the field shooting cans with a sawed off shotgun.the police would show up and go on 1 of the fields that were not in use and let off their real guns for target practice.it was really ghetto, you could take your beer with you onto the field before the game started+ no refs ever.

with that said its really hard adjusting to the safety here in Canada but i do understand it and respect it...just not used to it.One of my friends when we were kids took his mask off and got shot JUST under his eye...it swelled up really badly and was almost a blinding shot.

i would not trade my memories of that field for anything in the world though and that's just how Africa is..... and on that note.........................

be safe and have fun!

[malJohann]

..i would not trade my memories of that field for anything in the world though and that's just how Africa is...

Never seen a "field" like that here in South-Africa my whole life. This must have been one seriously illegal/hooligan field. In future, please don't "promote" South-Africa as having an irresponsible paintball community. Rather keep it to yourself.

[halB]

Which field was this? I live in florida and whichever field it was could explain a lot of this.


It is also not a safety issue. Dry firing markers creates a louder noise - usually more rapid. It is an inconsiderate thing for a field owner to allow his customers to constantly dry fire and piss off the neighbors.

[KiNgStiNg]

just telling it how it is. and paintball being unsafe is the last of south africas problems.
i was just sharing my experience in paintball in SA.i was not *promoting* anything.so keep your attitude to yourself please. if you dont like what i had to say, ignore it.

[halB]

Never seen a "field" like that here in South-Africa my whole life. This must have been one seriously illegal/hooligan field. In future, please don't "promote" South-Africa as having an irresponsible paintball community. Rather keep it to yourself.

Don't be such a worry wart. There was an outlaw field close by me a long time ago. It was awesome, we would go out there, get sloshed and play. And I have very fond memories of that field - which existed in miami. Hell, even the murderers and rapists enjoyed it (I think... we ALWAYS found torn womens clothing out there... very creepy.)

Then they bulldozed it and put up fences around it. Great job government, you took away a park.

[malJohann]

just telling it how it is. and paintball being unsafe is the last of south africas problems.

No kidding, I still live here, so should know. Paintball being played unsafe is a great worry to the paintball community in South-Africa though, since its still not an official sport and even without a regulating body. The last thing we need is people propagating an outdated and on top of that, bad image of paintball in South-Africa.

Did you know there was a woodsball tournament with international teams attending held at a historic fort in South-Africa recently?

i was just sharing my experience in paintball in SA.i was not *promoting* anything.so keep your attitude to yourself please. if you dont like what i had to say, ignore it.

If I don't like what you have to say, especially if its outdated and detrimental to the future of paintball in South-Africa, please excuse me if I happen to stand up and defend it. It is after all my favorite pass time and I would hate if marker ownership is going to be licensed. You know what that would do to paintball in South-Africa?