wintnessed near eye loss incident on saturday

[Jeffy-CanCon]

You should post the name of the field, at least as a warning to any onther local players.

If they are being irresponsible and dangerous, they deserve the bad publicity.

[goat]

The field owner is NOT all to blame, Everyone there is!!! as players its all of our responsibilitys to keep other players safe......do the field rules state that everyone should have been wearing a mask???
If so then everyone but the person who posted would have been in violation of the rules, and at some point someone should have said something.

To blame or hold the field owner 100% responsible is wrong and is a very typical response these days....."eating McDonalds made me fat..Im going to sue"--"How dare they sell me HOT coffee, I burned myself when I spilled it in my lap, Im going to sue"
we all know he should have been wearing a mask, they all knew they should have been wearing a mask.
as for the parents sueing.....maybe they will take a more active role in their sons recreational actvities and not use the field as a daycare...

We have a saying at my local field, "You are trusting your eyesight to the stupidest person out here"


my 2 cents...keep the change.

[temps]

We have a saying at my local field, "You are trusting your eyesight to the stupidest person out here"

lol.. Nice saying!

Your right that the players should of known better, and yes the kid who got should of had his mask on. But it still comes down to the feild owner/orginizer/ref should of been there to inforce the rules.

[Rhinopkc]

I hope the kid is ok. As a parent I'd be talking to the field owner, tourney organizer and my attorney

What would you need your attorney for? If the kid was hit in the forehead, there shouldn't be any permanent damage or any medical bills to pay.

[tony3]

I almost got shot in the eye last tourney I played. Kid shot me 17+ times(atleast the ones that broke)and my mask lifted up with all the shooting and hit me right below the eye. I was impressed the ref pulled him for overshooting,

[punkncat]

I have some to add to this story. I am a ref at my local field and i take masks up very seriosly. When ever i am refing and i see someone on the field or outside take there mask of while paintball guns are around i tell them to put it down and never put it back up until you are back inside. Then if i catch that same person again i tell them to go inside and talk to the owner and miss out a game or two. After that they are gone. I never feel bad about doing this either because i don't want anyone to lose there eye and i know they relize why i did it after they think about it.

And for the story above i think it is stupid for everyone that was out there not to yell at anyone who didn't have there mask down. I would of went crazy on them!

We have a very similar rule at my local field. Once , get yelled at , twice sit out a game. Three times go home.

I also explain in my pre game talk that if I yell at you for no mask , its not to be mean , its for your protection. Its a whole lot easier to get over hearing me yell "Put your mask on" than to grow a new eye.

[davidnj]

We have a very similar rule at my local field. Once , get yelled at , twice sit out a game. Three times go home.

I also explain in my pre game talk that if I yell at you for no mask , its not to be mean , its for your protection. Its a whole lot easier to get over hearing me yell "Put your mask on" than to grow a new eye.

I guess im weird but I think thats 3 chances too many. Some stuff should be zero tolerance. First and only warning when you pay for your paint or field pass.