Niiiiice.....here we go again.

[warbeak2099]

That was harsh.

[Lenny]

Ahg! Those colors hurt! I may never be able to see correctly again!

[afortuna]

You guys misread the bail portion of the article. 3 are being held on NO bail and the fourth (probably the minor) on $7,000 bail. Now the minor will only have to get his parents to fork over $700 to get a bond to bail out, but that $700 is gone if he does. I'm in Fresno County, which is just south of Merced County, and hadn't heard of this so it's not too bad. Luckily the DA was hit or nothing probably would have happened in my opinion. The police would have gone on with more serious crime fighting. I hope these punks get something like 400 hours of community service and an injuction from being within 50 feet of a paintball marker or a paintball field. 100 yards would be better, but then they couldn't do their daily shopping at Wal-Mart.

[jenarelJAM]

Yeah, I think the police are going a little overkill, but that might be in response to all the shootings going on right now... Probably anything to do with "guns" right now is going to get put down, hard.

Aw... and Warbeak beat me to the punch...

[rabidchihauhau]

guys, this kind of thing will and does affect paintball: there's paintball vandalism in the news EVERY DAY somewhere in the country.

Its really getting out of control.

[craltal]

You're aunt does not represent the general population. People who speak or reason like that are just old kooks. She just sounds like she has a screw loose. I wouldn't take that kind of person very seriously in the first place...

Then again, you are probably the most annoying member on AO right now

Is it really surprising that his family would think that way, look who we're talking about

it's the apple and the tree...

[Steelrat]

So why doesn't baseball get a bad reputation when someone get beat down by a baseball bat??????

Because a bat doesn't look like a gun.

Because there weren't articles about Al Queda training for combat by using baseball bats.

Because the majority of people actually know what baseball is, and how you play it.

Because beatings involving a baseball bat usually end up as attempted murders or aggrivated assaults, whereas paintball shootings do not (usually) create the same injuries.

Because John Q Public associated paintball with survivalists running around in camo in the woods, and therefore associates it with odd or questionable behavior.




I've heard the baseball bat line before, it's fairly un-original now.

[geekwarrior]

Because a bat doesn't look like a gun.

Because there weren't articles about Al Queda training for combat by using baseball bats.

Because the majority of people actually know what baseball is, and how you play it.

Because beatings involving a baseball bat usually end up as attempted murders or aggrivated assaults, whereas paintball shootings do not (usually) create the same injuries.

Because John Q Public associated paintball with survivalists running around in camo in the woods, and therefore associates it with odd or questionable behavior.




I've heard the baseball bat line before, it's fairly un-original now.

QFT

[Shirow]

Yeah, I think the police are going a little overkill, but that might be in response to all the shootings going on right now... Probably anything to do with "guns" right now is going to get put down, hard.

Aw... and Warbeak beat me to the punch...

You think so? If my wife got shot with a paintball gun while out jogging, you can be damn sure I'd want the police to go after the people that did it.

There's a reason fields enforce goggle rules hard and it's not because they get 10% commission from JT. Idiots running around shooting people with anything need to be dealt with.. there's no excuse for attacking other people, whether you throw a beer can at them, a rock, shoot a paintball or a bullet. Some will injure you more than others, but I'm not going to thank somebody for shooting me walking down the street with a paintball gun because they didn't use a glock.

[athomas]

A lot of people these days know what paintball is and that this is not related to the actual sport. It doesn't get quite as much negative press towards the sport like it used to. The article doesn't even list the sport of paintball, but identifies the people as being involved in a criminal assault charge and identifies the weapon used in the assault. The only reason the article even hit the press was because it happened to the DA.

The bail listed isn't the actual cost to get out of jail, it is the amount of bond you have to put up to insure that you don't dissappear. You can use your own collateral (ie; house, car, property, or bond) to secure the bail. If you skip out, the authorities keep your property that you put up for collateral that they now have control over. If you return for your hearing, you get it back. I suspect you can purchase security bonds in installments in most cases to provide collateral as long as someone else guarrantees it (ie; co-signs). If you are high risk, the amount you put up is higher. That is where the bail bonds people come in. They provide the bail for you for an interest charge, which can be high depending on the risk. They bank on the fact that you won't leave, and if you do, that they will be able to find you via bounty hunters.