Woman killed by paintball marker tank

[Rope a Dope]

http://fox40.trb.com/news/ktxl-021604paintball,0,2057805.story?coll=ktxl-news-1

PLACERVILLE -- A woman was killed Monday when she was struck in the head with a cartridge from a paintball gun, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Dept.

The freak accident happened in the area of Mosquito Road in El Dorado County. Sheriff's Dept. officials tell FOX40 News someone was using a paintball gun and the cartirdge on the back of the gun somehow malfunctioned. It popped off the gun and became a projectile, flying through the air and striking a woman who was walking nearby. She was hit in the head and died.

There's no word yet on any potential charges against the person using the paintball gun.

This is pretty close to where I am located. No more info yet.. don't know if it was HPA or CO2.

[shartley]

[11_Mile_TMaster]

Probably a 12 gram. those things are frikking evil when they're flying through the air.

And shartley, here's some food for thought.

No news is good news?
or good news is no news?

Basically, Sensationalist reporting is what the media feels the public craves. Unless there is a scandal, a scapegoat, or SOMETHING for people to get angry about, it's not a story.

[Kevmaster]

i see a lawsuit against crossman and brass eagle coming...

[Quickling]

Or a banning of 12gram powered markers.

Already I have been asked not to use them indoors so that no one trips/slides on a spent cartridge.

[Spaceman613]

why dont we wait and see some details before naming companies?

cartridge could mean a consdtant air tank. Reporters dont use the same terminology as we do. I can think of a few different ways to make tanks (all sizes) to become projectiles.

I also would find it hard to believe that a 12 gram would be enough mass to cause a fatal head wound (but anything is possible).


And to finish it off, I heard this SAME story months ago. it was on pbnation almost verbatim probably 3 or 4 months ago.

[Rope a Dope]

Heres a thread from a local paintball message board:

http://www.sacpaintball.com/cgi-bin/...989775&start=0

[dansim]

just a quick warning about the language in the link above

[shartley]

After reading that thread, it looks to be USER ERROR, not a tank defect. But I will hold off until I know the facts.

How many people die because of user error while driving their cars?

This is indeed unfortunate, but I am sure we can find freak accidents for just about any equipment, or object.

[845]

IT sounds like the bottle got unscrewed from the reg and the bottle shot out. Damn and I just had aproblem with my nitroduck tank unscrewing from the reg when I tried to remove it from my intimidator.

[*captain_cox*37]

Originally posted by shartley
To say this is simply bad reporting would be putting it mildly. Do reporters actually RESEARCH what they write any more, or do they just want to fill space?

Yeah especially Fox. They are notorious for not making good reports and there "Facts" being total bs.

Anything can happen at anytime. I mean a couple years back this lady was actually decapitated by a flying pig. It was some car accident and the pig flew off the back of a truck and into her front windshield. True story, happened in my hometown and new the lady it happened too. But yeah I could actually see a lawsuit over this. If a person can make money they will usually do it by any means possible.

[GT]

Originally posted by shartley
How many people die because of user error while driving their cars?

Difference is society believes that bieng mobile is more important than the level of risk taken while driving..

[shartley]

Originally posted by gtrsi


Difference is society believes that bieng mobile is more important than the level of risk taken while driving..

Only because society in general has not realized how important paintball is.

[845]

Originally posted by shartley

Only because society in general has not realized how important paintball is.

Yeah it definately is. It even keeps kids off drugs.





Original Thread: http://pbnation.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=417038

[Siress]

I think it was probably a cheap blowback from wally world that someone was stretching the spring on and the plastic velocity adjuster snapped, propelling out of the marker by the air and spring, and unfortunately hitting the woman in a sensitive area.

We can't give the media any credit for knowing what a cartridge is. If the striker came out they would have called it a bullet.

Maybe now there will be more quality controle on the wal-mart markers. Personaly, I would like to never see another talon or balde in my life. I say that only Model 98's and A SINGLE TYPE of decent blow back, and when PGP's come back sell them in wal-mart too.