Disturbing use of paintball guns

[Albinonewt]

Another thing that just popped in my head.

We need to remember that not everyone views this story the same way we do. For us, we see that some hooker lost an eye and we think to ourselves that the moron should have had goggles and a mask on. But for some 15 year old's mom, paintball guns are now extremely dangereous and shoot out people's eyes. She knows this because she saw it on TV, and now her 15 year old can't go to the field as a rental anymore, and his friends' moms consider this when they book their 20 kid birthday part somewhere besides the local paintball field.

That's another way it has the potential to affect the sport.

[shartley]

[shartley]

Originally posted by Albinonewt
Another thing that just popped in my head.

We need to remember that not everyone views this story the same way we do. For us, we see that some hooker lost an eye and we think to ourselves that the moron should have had goggles and a mask on. But for some 15 year old's mom, paintball guns are now extremely dangereous and shoot out people's eyes. She knows this because she saw it on TV, and now her 15 year old can't go to the field as a rental anymore, and his friends' moms consider this when they book their 20 kid birthday part somewhere besides the local paintball field.

That's another way it has the potential to affect the sport.

[Xyxyll]

Figured I'd throw up this link... Not quite sure what good it will do, but ya never know.

http://www.petitiononline.com/10442563/petition.html

[ArmyOfOne]

New *ADULT ENTERTAINMENT* involves paintball!

Today (7/15), I was listening to the radio (107.3 WAAF) at work and they had news of a new type of adult entertainment in Las Vegas.

There is a place that lets men pay LOTS of money to shoot paintballs at NAKED WOMEN! The game is somewhat like this: The guys have paintball guns while the naked girls run around trying to capture the flag away from the men. The girls DO NOT wear masks, ONLY SNEAKERS. They are also unarmed. If a girl gets shot, that girl gets $1000... thats right, 1G!!! When the game is over, any girl that was NOT shot get $2500!

Weird as it may seem, there are alot os ladies who want to do this, cuz they get paid ALOT! So they dont mind getting stripped down naked and get balls shot at them. There are actually more women wanting to get naked than men wanting to shoot them.

I thought this story was made up by the radio station but then I heard about it again on the TV news during lunch. They described the same thing as I said above. There was a lady they interviewed and she said "I like my men to be bad boys. It's exciting." (I thought that was hilarious)

On the radio, a bunch of people called in saying that it is illegal but what they dont understand is that in vegas (or nevada), many things that are illegal elsewhere could be legal in nevada or vegas. Like prostitution for example - its illegal in vegas but legal in some parts of nevada.

So what do you guys think? hurts paintball or what? Or do you think it'll be a new, fun, and eroctic thing to do when you're in vegas?

Henry

[cphilip]

I think we already had a post on this. And if I am not mistaken it ended up closed. So this one will be too I fear. I will let it run just a bit though till I scope it out more.

[ArmyOfOne]

Oh really? how come it just recnetly got on the news? I dont mean to offend anyone, I'm just telling people whats going on. I'm not encouraging or implying anything. I'm not trying to break a rule here.

Forgot to add that men have to pay $20,000 to play and the game is called, "Bunny Hunting" or "Hunting for Bambi."

I think they adjust the guns to shoot like 100fps.. not sure on that.

[rpm07]

Here is the first post about it.

http://www.automags.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=91923

[FalconGuy016]

Seven threads now

[QUINCYMASSGUY]

go figure

Go figure, a news story about paintball and naked women and it has the most excessive amount of threads created for it yet! lol.

I have heard more about this in the last three days than I have anytime else. Did it just open or has it been running for a while?

If we wanted to stop it, could OSHA be involved? I mean, if one gets shot in the eye they will lose it. That's really unsafe! The argument it promotes woman violence is weak but safety and insurance risks is valid.

[SG Avenger]

Next one up get's a pod full of paintball sin their muffler!

[ArmyOfOne]

my bad, if i knew that it was posted already, i wouldnt have posted. But I dont have time to make a search for it on every forum. I'm just trying to spread the word, and look for other people's comments.

[satin (not satan)]

baa, i just heard about this on the jim rome show all I can say is only in vegas

[Albinonewt]

Originally posted by shartley

If you are worried that misuse of the equipment will cause people to not play the sport, I am sure you can find much more common examples to be worried about than some naked hookers being shot.
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Ya know Shart, you drive me nuts when you use that train of thought as an arguement, which you do a lot.

Becuase isolated incidents of misuse on a field that go completely unreported in the mass media don't drive away folks who don't know about them neither will a gross misuse of equipment that IS broadcast on cable news.

Right Shart, keep telling yourself they're the same.

[cphilip]

Ok well no harm no foul. I just merged them cause the other one was still open.