Could A PaintBall Kill you?

[zazzoo]

Well a paintball cant kill me but some of these other guys on this forum im sure it could

[Beemer]

I thought this thread was gonna die but since it didnt, I had to go back and read my first post. All I asked was what do you think and made a poll. And posted a link.

I cant wait for spring to play some ball. Could it kill me? Well ya, says so right in the waiver.
Says the same thing about sky diving. But I still jump. Unless I get a rider my life insurance is void though. I should be dead already and if I see the flash again its gonna be one helluve a ride and I dont think its gonna be from balling.

I see some other threads mocking me and thats to bad. Voted in one and didnt post just to be a wise guy.

So let me rephrase the question. Do you think the effect of a paintball hit in the right place could kill ya? Maybe I just have more info then some of you or maybe not.

Let me help you out some. Take these pics to a neurologist with a paintball in hand and show and tell. Call the paintball 3grams for an average. Make sure you tell him those hits could go 360 degrees. Proper safety gear will play a part here.

By the way whats PROPER SAFETY gear? A JT mask and a bandanna around my neck?

Peace Out

[Beemer]

Something I've always wondered. How many consecutive impacts would it take to cause a "dangerous" injury to "sensitive" areas that are not normally covered by REQUIRED safety equipment? The problem is that I don't think anyone know how many or if it even will or won't.

Hey hush now. Its a dont ask dont tell policy we got going. Why was the FA SMG at 10 BPS banned again? There is no distinction between FA and Ramping at 15BPS

Oh ya it aint how many, its only one.

[Lenny]

That's Snowball!

Happened at the last AO-OH day. He's one of my best friends. It wasn't bad at all, though. He was over it in about an hour. He even went to the hospital to get things checked out. Absolutely no serious damage. Not even a sign of anything serious.

...But you can't really bash that hit. I mean, it got us free pizzza and Dew.

[Soopa Villain17]

one night my mask fogged up in a night game and i told my friends to give me a second to unfog my mask and i caught a ball in the cheek and bottom lip, it hurt. also got shot in the neck a few times but i think its possible if you get hit in the eye but under normal condtions it shouldnt kill ya.

[hitech]

I've wrecked race cars, I've hit my head hard enough to have a concussion, and I don't buy for a second that a paintball impact alone caused a concussion.

[Lohman446]

There is no distinction between FA and Ramping at 15BPS
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Why?

[hitech]

I should be dead already and if I see the flash again its gonna be one helluve a ride and I dont think its gonna be from balling.

Hey, you can't say something like that and not explain!

[bryceeden]

Maybe I just have more info then some of you or maybe not.

Let me help you out some. Take these pics to a neurologist with a paintball in hand and show and tell. Call the paintball 3grams for an average. Make sure you tell him those hits could go 360 degrees. Proper safety gear will play a part here.

By the way whats PROPER SAFETY gear? A JT mask and a bandanna around my neck?

I would call proper safty gear a mask. But as for the nerologist thing, I'll try and find one to be sure, but my moneys on they say no, it can't kill you.

thru all of my medical classes I've taken and no, I don't have a degree so I'm not an expert, but I've actually been led to belive the human body is actually alot tougher than most people give it credit for, and my job with Gold Cross Ambulance backed that up alot.

[Phaelynar]

To an extreme, anything can kill you. The end.

[fatkidfrank]

Stroke....Also called apoplexy, CerebroVascular Accident.[CVA] A blockage or hemorrhage of a blood vessel leading to the brain, causing inadequate oxygen supply and, depending on the extent and location of the abnormality, such symptoms as weakness, paralysis of parts of the body, speech difficulties, and, if severe, loss of consciousness or death.

Sounds just like the symptoms he had. No doubt it was a stroke.

aneurysm also aneurism. A localized, pathological, blood-filled dilatation of a blood vessel caused by a disease or weakening of the vessel's wall. A cardiovascular disease characterized by a saclike widening of an artery resulting from weakening of the artery wall. An abnormal blood-filled dilatation of a blood vessel and especially an artery resulting from disease of the vessel wall.

glad websters helped out. but when a artery ruptures from say a paintball shot. the stroke would be a secondary side effect to the fact that the artery contolling 15% of your systematic blood flow is broken and bleeding into the body cavity. unless the ball strike knocked lose a plaque build up that made its way into the head. by websters definintion a heart attack could be a stroke because it is causing a lack of O2 to reach the brain due to the inability of the heart to pump blood there from a clot in a cardiac artery.

If the carodid atery was conpremissed he was dead before a stroke could kill him. just like if you blow a AAA (abdominal aortic aneurysm) you will be dead before any side effects of O2 lose will be seen.

Yes he may have not gotten O2 to the brain but that is because all the blood would be pooling in his neck and that would also cause a heart attack and multi-system organ failure ie death. (the brain is one of these).

[CoolHand]

Well, I dunno about your goggles, but every pair I own covers my temples with hard armour. I've never taken a hit to the temple, but I did take one right behind my right ear at point blank range (coming from behind). That hurt like a mother, but no other issues.

Was he shooting hot? I'm guessing that this was "back in the day" before the full face goggles were even developed, yes?

I have no other choice but to believe what you say (and why not, you're not a liar), but I myself have never experienced or even seen anyone go down from a hit anywhere on their head, and I have seen guys unload halos on people's heads from ten inches when starting a fight. Nobody went down, but maybe being pissed off helped? I dunno.

Like I said, could be possible, I suppose, under some specific condition, but I'm not gonna worry about it. I'm gonna play and have a good time, and if I get killed, so be it. You can't play the game and be afraid of it any more than you can drive a race car and be afraid of it. You just gotta accept the risk and go on, or don't and find something else to do.

[hitech]

Some corrections (sorry, it was a long time ago).

I think I was wrong it was not the temple. He was wearing the original Vents and the impact was behind the ear. I don't know if that is more or less sensitive. Swelling could have effected the inner-ear and caused the problems. It was during a tournament (The Bay City Open) and "we" ran that particular field as tightly as we could. But as I'm sure you know, there were velocity cheats that we wouldn't have been able to catch. The person in question was hit at likely inches and I was also hit at a few feet from the same shooter. It did not seem to me that he was hot, but you never know. The shooter in question was not chronoed. I never saw him so...

And yeah, that didn't even slow down my (or his, after he recovered) playing.




P.S. But that incedent has always made me wonder just how much more effect multiple impacts has. And I don't know the answer.

[calebh]

That's Snowball!

Happened at the last AO-OH day. He's one of my best friends. It wasn't bad at all, though. He was over it in about an hour. He even went to the hospital to get things checked out. Absolutely no serious damage. Not even a sign of anything serious.

...But you can't really bash that hit. I mean, it got us free pizzza and Dew.

dude, i had one about like that without the swelling and probly a little bloodier and i never got pizza or dew... i kinda have a nice little nike scar now lol. i just wish i still had pics.

but im still going without any extra padding. and because it says it could happen in the waiver doesnt mean it could happen in reality. disease strains caused by playing paintball? sure...

[Pneumagger]

A paintball could definately kill you. It could hit an pinch a vital artery in the neck.

I play baseball for my college (catcher) and caught a foul tip straight to the artery in my neck. I first stood up like some sorta macho who didn't feel it. I go to get the ball about 15 feet away, I bent over to pick it up, dropped to my knees, then my hands, everything went white, and I was out like a lamp. I guess I came to a few seconds later when my coaches were walking out to me. I guess the vision is the 1st thing to go with loss of brain oxygen. Surprisingly, it's totally white (not dark) and all light hurts extremely badly to look at.I was trying to be all hard-arse and play it off like I didn't just get knocked the ---- out. I woulda had 'em fooled too, until they realized I still couldn't see.
"Joe, you OK?"
"Psshhhh, yeah. I'm fine."
"You're all glazed over. How many fingers?"
"Whazzuh? Where's the ball?"
They wouldn't even let me finish the game five mins later when I could see again.
Then they made me go to the hospital. Those pussies,

I'd be willing to bet a same type of paintball shot at close range would do the exact same thing. The hopsital people said they were checking for clots that formed in a blunt traumad artery or something that could break loose and kill me. (they musta been pussies too)