AO army- help the man in a coma!

[Havoc_online]

Tom? Someone? could you organize this and make an ao contribution as a whole. Also, between capoeira and myself we'd be able to contribute 20.00 to start out. Maybe Tom could receive any contributions and contact the man's family to help pay medical bills.

C'mon AO lets flex some muscle, we can do this better and faster than anyone else!!!!!!

[Clare]

any contribution at all would help!

[Mango]

Im sorry, but what is this about?

[Clare]

AO the Paintball Industry Needs Your Help With the Attack in LA

[cphilip]

Full details would help you cause...

[shartley]

AO,

Several industry people have asked me to ask YOU to help with this. As you might have heard a 51 year old man was shot by paintballs over the weekend. He was on rollerblades and slipped and hit his head. He is now in a coma and on life support. Several witnesses saw kids with paintguns on the cliff above but they have not been arrested yet.

Someone must know these guys! Please keep your ears and eyes open for any info from the California area that might lead to their arrest. I just got off the phone with Budd Orr and the reporters have hit each one of his retail stores today.

There already have been published reports of the incident which left out the fact that the guy slipped and then hit his head. They just read "Man in coma after paintball attack". We need to use the power of AO to try and bring these guys to justice!

Thanks from the entire paintball industry.

AGD

(Note: If you do not agree with me, fine. I have no problem with that. But please do not take what I write out of context or warp it into meanings I clearly did not intend.)

[cphilip]

Someone please point me to the post I must have missed on all this....

[shartley]

Phil.. look at CaPoEiRa's second post here.

[cphilip]

Dang! I am so off today.

[manike]

I'm in complete agreement with Shartley

It was an act of hooliganism and we should help to find the perpetrators because they may be accessible via people in our sport. And we should help and push to get them prosecuted, but we should not feel guilty or responsible because of the use of paintball equipment. We should just use that as a driver to find and prosecute these idiots.

manike

[epterry]

if we give and we make the news theyll know paint ballers arent all jerks.

[shartley]

if we give and we make the news theyll know paint ballers arent all jerks.

[manike]

This is what worries me...

Originally posted by shartley
And paying for his bills would send a message that somehow paintballers (and the industry) were at fault for his being in the coma. And this is simply not true

Again I find myself in complete agreement with Shartley.

manike

[cphilip]

Re: This is what worries me...

Originally posted by manike


Again I find myself in complete agreement with Shartley.

manike

This is a historic moment folks! That may be the first time these four word have ever been strung together:

complete agreement with Shartley

And by Manike none the less! I am glad I was sitting down.
I think this calls for a Pop Contest! Oh wait...there already is one. Tonight!!!

[manike]

Hey I'm happy to agree with him when he has a valid point

Just teasing.

manike