Any publicity is good publicity...

[weedave]

Wrong.

Quote from the Sunday Mirror, Wednesday 11th August 2004 (pg17).

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Paintballer yobs hit tot

A BABY was shot in the arm with a paintball by yobs who then shouted "Yeah!", her mum said yesterday, Mollie Duncan, 14 months, was hit at a bus stop with mum Jeanette, 39, in Liverpool.

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Dave

 

[Tom Allen]

Now she should know, never stand at bus stops in Liverpool.

he said jokingly.....

This is probably where all the stolen markers are going, into the hands of the ....?

 

[-Suicide-]

...idiots? am i right in calling them that, co if im not, please tell me, if this story is true, as some newspapers can exagerate the truth then yes i believe i should be right in calling them idiots! although, this paintball gun could've been those small hand held spring powered ones that are sold in high street shops!

 

[Paint Marine]

do they mean markers like ours or those crappy things u get in argos?

 

[Mog]

and we get the blame for these peoples behaviour, it probably was one of those argos things

 

[Paint Marine]

yeah,thing is u can buy nthem under 18 but u have to b 17 to buy markers were use strange really

 

[ChiZZerS]

Originally posted by Paint Marine
do they mean markers like ours or those crappy things u get in argos?

i think paintball can can get tied in with with other things like
paintball "blow pipes" ... its all the same to a member of the public...
this may not be the case in this subject but
selling paintall blow pipes as a toy, in major toy stores, (IMHO)
is a bad moove.. think about how many kids have gone and bought one, fired tham at cars & people.

 

[Paint Marine]

Originally posted by Sephiroth
i think paintball can can get tied in with with other things like
paintball "blow pipes" ... its all the same to a member of the public...
this may not be the case in this subject but
selling paintall blow pipes as a toy, in major toy stores, (IMHO)
is a bad moove.. think about how many kids have gone and bought one, fired tham at cars & people.

yeah thats a point!

thing is u can probly get more balls for them so even if they havent got the gun thing they can still throw them

 

[-Suicide-]

true, and a shot with an air powered marker to a baby i think that would do UBER damage to its growing body! (see i do care)

 

[JoseDominguez]

considering any moron with £65 can buy a lovely brass eagle plastic piece of crap, it probably was a marker.
It's starting now, all we need is one bad incident and the rest of us get dragged down too.