liitle brat

[gc82000]

this incident happened a while back but here it is:

At a local field that I play at there is a rule that there is no shooting during field maintainance. Hence everyone turns off or plugs their guns and puts it on the ground. At this time the entire field, chrono station and target area are a no fire area. Well this one kid did not follow suit and decided to fire directly at the field crew, becuase he was complaining they were taking to long. Yes, the crew should have been wearing their masks, but then again everyone should have been away from their guns. Well needless to say that this kid was litterally throw off the preimisses and told to to never return.
He later came back with his father. To which he and the owner got into an arguement about how he made the kid walk home. The owner then said that he should call CPS on the guy for not supervising his kid at an esablishment where an adult is required. At this fist were thrown. Me and some friends were required to pull the father away and secure him while the cops were called.


Has this happened anywhere else?

[Halliday]

I've almost seen a fight at a field. A fellow was drunk and did not like how one of the sober people was playing. The drunk told the guy he wanted to "settle this." The player thought he wanted to settle it on the speedball course, the drunk wanted a fist fight. No punches were thrown and the drunk was told to leave.

[Rather]

Ive seen punches thrown unfortunately.. big name people but wont say who or where... but one guy was setting a bunker back up for a teamate to play behind (his fault for running right INTO the bunker so of course it will fall over). The guy picking it up gets shot up and yells at the shooter for shooting him (of course you will get shot.. your in a live game right to the LAST guy on the team...). Shooter comes up and says his apologies... person A (standing the bunker up) calls the shooter said name and then shooter goes into a brawl with him.... me bieng 5 feet away from it i sorta tried to get ahold of the situation (kinda hard for ME to pull away 2 180+ men from beating the snot outa each other...) so i told everyone to put their guns down.. takes them a while to do it (sigh) but they do eventually. Boss chops out and handles the 2 guys... they shill and are better eventually.. one doesn't play the rest of the day i believe but it got situated....


The other horror story is a NeWb comes out of the netting without his barrel plug, gun live (electro), and is pointing it at people in the stands.. I ran the the hell over there to try and get him, luckilly head ref was outside already, grabs gun reaches to turn it off... kid pulls trigger.... ref gets nutted from 1 foot away. Gets mad takes the gun, turns off, sets on ground, kids parent (one sitting in bleachers) says well its his fault.. he hit the trigger.... .... I was 2 feet away.. he never had his fingers near the trigger... was reaching for the off switch. Didn;t see the damage of it (eww) but from what he said looked like he had a ringworm....


Oh and good riddance to them.. their OWN fault... i can understand the maininace stuff.... its hard to be working at a field (one where you do things other than just ref). Kid is the one in fault and he ignored the waiver he signed so his own fault for not being safe, and dad's fault for not watching his brat....

Tought day.. there are better days man. Its not all bad working at a field... theres the good regulars that make it worthwhile to actualy be doing what your doing...

[Carbon]

this incident happened a while back but here it is:


At a local field that I play at there is a rule that there is no shooting during field maintainance. Hence everyone turns off or plugs their guns and puts it on the ground. At this time the entire field, chrono station and target area are a no fire area. Well this one kid did not follow suit and decided to fire directly at the field crew, becuase he was complaining they were taking to long. Yes, the crew should have been wearing their masks, but then again everyone should have been away from their guns. Well needless to say that this kid was litterally throw off the preimisses and told to to never return.
He later came back with his father. To which he and the owner got into an arguement about how he made the kid walk home. The owner then said that he should call CPS on the guy for not supervising his kid at an esablishment where an adult is required. At this fist were thrown. Me and some friends were required to pull the father away and secure him while the cops were called.


Has this happened anywhere else?

man this story makes me sad.

[Ellomdian]

Parental Supervision

I really have to wonder about some of these parents - when did they come from the soccer and baseball fields out to our paintball fields? Their job at a field is to SUPERVISE their kid, not defend them, and to DISCIPLINE when necessary.

I dont like painting an 8 year old on a general basis, but a few weeks ago, well... He was an ***, and I absolutely wasted him. The best part - he tried to get his dad to yell at me, but he just shrugged his shoulders, smiled, and said "It's part of the game."

Absolutely classic.

[GoatBoy]

"This is not a day care center" should become a standard sign at fields now.







Actually, now that I think about it a little further, do you guys believe that kids should just be dumped off at fields?


Do you think that at least some parents should be present and observing the games and everything else going on? And I don't mean sitting in the staging area reading a book, completely oblivious to what is going on.

[deadbox101]

my next door neighbor has a kid around 11 that wants to play paintball. She doesnt want to stay with him at the course so instead of dropping him off she said she'll PAY ME to watch the kid and get him setup while playing paintball.

[Halliday]

my next door neighbor has a kid around 11 that wants to play paintball. She doesnt want to stay with him at the course so instead of dropping him off she said she'll PAY ME to watch the kid and get him setup while playing paintball.

Now that's a deal

[oldsoldier]

Fields in my area, at least on paper, say that they are supposed to be supervised under a certain age. Personally, I never see it enforced. I would NEVER just dump my nephew off to play though. Too many things can go wrong. I agree about the no babysitting policy; if you arent old enough to drive, you should have a guardian there.
As far as that guy trying to fight; he was claerly in the wrong. He allegedly signed the waiver for his son to play, accepting ALL responsibility for his sons actions. Who's at fault again?!?!?!?!

[deadbox101]

hey man just cause someone cant drive doesnt mean they arent mature. My field gives us a waiver to sign accepting responsibility and that should be enough for someone who seriously wants to play some paintball.

[RedBeard]

hey man just cause someone cant drive doesnt mean they arent mature. My field gives us a waiver to sign accepting responsibility and that should be enough for someone who seriously wants to play some paintball.

No, being young doesn't necessarily equal being immature. But, if something does happen, and there is always the possibility for even the most mature young persion, if you can't drive, you have no way to leave, other than walking, if it comes to being removed from the field. There should be a guardian there if the person cannot drive.

[punkncat]

I cannot see where a parent would possibly think its ok to let their kids loose somewhere like that. I would never dream of just dropping mine off (ANYWHERE) to be someone else's responsibility.Unfortunately I see this happen all the time at my local field also.

What I wonder is what happens if their kid gets hurt or something....?


We have an age limit at our field though. No one under 10 is allowed to play , and no one under 12 allowed w/o the parent on the field with them. Generally the youngest only play with private groups anyway.

To my knowledge there has never been a fight there. The owner of the field (who happens to be a REALLY nice guy) could kick Bruce Lee's butt , so no one starts any crap with him. The few incidents there have been have resulted in people being banned from the field . Most of them were the result of yelling matches gone bad.

[Jeffy-CanCon]

I've almost seen a fight at a field. A fellow was drunk and did not like how one of the sober people was playing. The drunk told the guy he wanted to "settle this." The player thought he wanted to settle it on the speedball course, the drunk wanted a fist fight. No punches were thrown and the drunk was told to leave.

Your local field lets people play while drunk??! That's pretty dumb.

Re: unsupervised kids, I think everyone agrees it is a bad thing. But it is up to individual field owners to manage and enforce it. All we can do as players is to tell them our opinions, and encourage reasonable policies for youth-supervsion and mimimum playing age.

[Halliday]

Well, they were sneaking drinks. The beer was back at their vehicles and they'd go have some between games. They started out fine and as the dy when on got more beligerant.

[slade]

unsupervised kids, I think everyone agrees it is a bad thing.

depends who the kids are. unsupervised immature people are a bad thing. im 16 and there is no reason that i should be any more supervised than the average 20 year old. same goes for my friends and some kids i have seen between 12 and 16.

and, unfortunately, i have seen a fight break out at a field once. it was 3 on 1. the one was in the back left, and on the other team there were players at the back left and right and one player at the 50. the one player made a great move and ran down the center of the field when the player at the back left was reloading and the man at the 50 was talking with the player at the back right. he bunkered the player at the 50, then proceeded down the field, but the player at the 50 (who had been eliminated) decided to shoot him, and claimed that they shot each other out at the same time. they got into a huge argument which escalated into a firefight, which the two other players joined into, and they ended up tackling him and tearing off his mask, at which point the refs intervened.