Your worst paintball injury

[Evil1]

I've shot in the nads a bunch of times over the years. I broke my right ring finger once playing speedball when I tripped on the break and crashed right into my one teammate. I broke my left pointer finger and pinky in one fall I took playing some woodsball 6 or 7 years ago. Shortly after breaking my 2 fingers at once, I broke my tailbone when I fell while standing on top of a mossy, freshly rained on rock wall while playing woodsball. So I broke 3 bones within 2 months of each other playing woodsball and 1 bone playing speedball. And I also broke my left femur when I was 12 while I was riding my bike. That sucked. I was off of my feet for a while on that one. My leg still doesn't feel right and that was 11 years ago.

[50 cal]

We were playing a big game in Birmingham AL back in '88 or '89. A bunch of us were standing around BSing near our cars. A guy was messing with his SMG60. He was directly behind me and I didn't see him, he was about 3 or 4 foot behind me.
Next thing I know is it felt like a hundred hornets were stinging my back. Mr. Einstein was fiddling with the trigger and pulled it all the way to the rear. I took 15- 60 caliber balls to a spot about 3" in diameter.
Back then SMG's were allowed to shoot 340 fps because of the smaller diameter and weight ball. The spot was almost immediately black and blue. It later set up a nasty infection because some of my t shirt got ripped and imbedded intot he wound.
It wasn't too long layer that SMG's were outlawed.

[mag88888]

give me a url for a smg. please, these things sound nasty.

[mag88888]

once some ki got pissed off and after the game he randomly shot me in the back. weener.

[G-Rock]

Didnt he have his mask on?

Yes he did!!

chris

[Magaman]

[SAW]

I think that my latest surgery is related to a paintball injury. But I can't be 100% sure. I mean, the injury itself was in 1999. But if it WAS related, then umm... yeah, disk herniation bad.

-Tyger

That's right, Tyger fell off a cliff...That's pretty tough to top.

[Tyger]

No, breaking the femur is pretty bad ya know. Umm... yeah.... I mean I walked away from mine. For a while, anyhow... That was a bad 2 months afterwards too. Regaining conciousness on the kitchen floor in searing back pain is never fun.

-Tyger

[Mighty Mike]

During an AO event, I passed out in the staging area and hit my head on a table. It was a hot summer day, a little over 100 degrees, and I was one week into my Atkins Diet. I was playing with zero carbs/zero energy and after a few hours in the heat my body cramped up and my head was about to burst. Last thing i remembered was people running to me and giving me water. It was definitely a scary feeling. After the day a bunch of us went to Chevy's and I filled myself up with 4 baskets of chips and salsa and some steak fajitas. That carb overload made me feel a lot better. :)

[Commissar_Loki]

Ok, I don't think I take the cake, but doesn't hurt to try. I snapped my Fibula, and broke off part of thr Tibia's socket, along with dislocating my ankle.... These are after surgery....

[FSU_Paintball]

Mine's not as impressive as some of these stories.

Had heart surgery, recovered for the required 3 months before I was allowed to play again. Went to a buddy's place to play, got shot by a (supposedly) non-combatant. Dead on shot straight to my fresh chest scar, point-blank, with a *really* hot mag. Ouch. And to add insult to injury, I was already out... the kid was just being a jackhole.

Playing a local tourney, got shot in the neck. The barrel was literally 3 inches from my skin when I got shot. And the gun was really, really hot. It bled. A lot. Lots of embedded shell in my torn flesh. Very painful. A prominent scar for over a year... it's still there if you look.

I think that's about all the biggies... other stuff like getting shot in the throat, rolling my ankles, hurting my knees, stuff like that, but nothing huge.

[50 cal]

give me a url for a smg. please, these things sound nasty.

If you google SMG60 you will find a bunch of spec sheets.

[Enemy]

ive been lucky aside from massive brusing none of my mistakes ever catch up to me but my cousin well he takes the cake or atleast comes close to miscues.. he decided to screw around while we were playing one night and got on top of a small cliff bout 20 feet to be funny. this was pre me deciding he is night blind. he thought it was a 5 foot drop so he jumped to avoid getting shot. straight legged the landing in his left leg snapping the femur at the growth plate and relocating it to his knee. well the paramedics said he was lucky the bone was not far from punching through the skin. sadly he did suffer major nerve damage and couldnt even lift the front of this foot for about a year now he can but not with any good amount of strength and cant walk on his heels! you should see the before and after x-rays the doctors did an amazing job. it was amazing too he only said ow then just sat there for 40 minutes wanting to go to sleep waiting for the ambulance. worst day ive ever had!

[Conversekidz]

The worst injury I guess would ge the bloody welts that I got from someone shooting over 300 in a close quarters game, this resulted in a fair amount of blood down my arm and he also shot me in the leg. The bruise is about the size of a grapefruit right now and is purple and green.


Another time had my knuckle split to the bone when I took a shot dead on the knuckle.


Nothing to major in my opinion.

[StygShore]

wounds and ouchies

I ref for Lone Wolf in Michigan... these are a few of em -

Multiple twisted,broken ankles and knees, point blank shots to the gnards, neck, hands, etc, broken fingers, kids jumping into bunkers with michigan rattlers, bees, ticked off groundhogs....

Kid slipped on a bridge on a run, got back up top, shoe and sock were filled with blood, upon investigation, his shin was cut down to the bone for about a 3 inch strip. The kid was upset he had to go to the hospital becasue he wanted to keep playing. he also made the statement that he had done worse on his BMX bike before.

In another incident, a rather heavyset guy was running uphill towards his buddies, and got shot, he fell backwards down the hill, and actually stabbed a stick into the kidney region of his back. It was burried deep, and he was bleeding like a stuck pig, not sure if any severe damage resulted, but it was DEEP!

A new kid got bunkerred from behid at about 4 feet away , he didnt have his goggles on properly, and the shot hit right behind his ear. The flesh was so soft there, it literrally tore his ear from the side of his head, it was like a loose flap of skin.

Had a guy scalp himself on a building entrance, he didnt get low enough, peeled back a good 4 inches of his scalp and knocked himself out.

Had another guy actually fall on the tank of his Tippman pro-lite, and he snapped the grip frame in half ( not at the screws, actually snapped that thick plastic ) He had a HUGE bruise from the impact.


Me personally - Broken ankle, blew out my knee, shot in the nards ( directly in the right one while wearing umbro running shorts and compression shorts underneath ) shot in the throat from 4 inches away, couldnt talk for about 6 hours, and had hoarse voice for about 2 weeks, shot in the back at 416fps from about 10 ft away ( yeah that one was beleding ). shot from about 8 ft away about 15 times, took one in the temple, and was knocked out for about 2 minutes ( before they required sides on goggles ) shot in the back of the head from 2 inches away by a teammate, slid into a bunker, knee hit a sharp rock, my momentum carried me forward slicing from the top of my knee down about 6 inches, about 1/2 of an inch deep - found that duct tape and paper towels work wonders.

im sure there are plenty more I can think of.

Styg