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Jones the Paint Magnet

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Dec 19, 2001
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As the victim of a (non-paintball related) ocular trauma myself, you can tell the kiddies that the worst part (other than the feeling that your eye has been pushed into your head), is when the doctors have to prise apart the swollen and cut eyelids to see what damage has been done to the eye itself. Then comes the wonderful array of flourescin stains to show up cuts, bright lights and stitches - all whilst conscious, and without anaesthesia.

Had a very large but friendly nurse sitting on my legs to stop me thrashing about. Not an experience you ever want to repeat in a hurry. You get to stare up through a haze of orange dye and blood, and then that's just about all you see for the next few weeks, except when you have to force apart the mother of all black eyes to force antiseptic eyedrops in.

And I was *lucky*!
 

styles mugger

Dum...dum.....DUMMMM!!!
Jan 14, 2002
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Ok so were all in agreement staples&glue to be used.
Id like to add(its brutal but they'll get the POINT!blunt if thant HAHAHA).
Explain to them that their balls (genitals) are very sensitive just like their eyes but harder then get the biggest member of ur crew eg. Sid (cameronians) or Gogger to shoot the pillock in the balls or near as damn it at close range.They experience wot it ruffly feels like (see wot i mean by blunt point) & u enjoy it!.Or for a less violent way say that the paintball is like their eye-(this will test how gud of a shot u are) & shoot a another paintball at short range & see both paintballs very broken.
I think the more painful way is better cos they'll learn quick & hopefully remember!



:D :)
 

smartecosse

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Dec 29, 2001
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Originally posted by permboy
the best way our site finds to deal with these sort's of people is to explain in raw detail what happens to an unprotected eye. E.g incoming gruesome bits and gore flying out of the eye and so on and so forth
what would work even better is a picture of this. if they could see wgat would happen rather than just hear it (picture / thousand words etc) it would sink in. like the pictures of a smokers lungs, urrgghhhh





((oops, repeating what rooster etc have said should have read the second page before this post))
 

RED HOT

www.redhotpaintball.com
You need to exaggerate thing to get your point across in the goggle safety briefing. you should see the eyes go wide and jaws drop when i tell them that the ball is going at 250 mph and can remove thier front teeth at 40 yards.

The BEST thing to stop them from lifting is get some decent goggles. get some that fit well and are comfortable and above all donr steam up too quick. use a decent anti fog spary. most players lift cos they cant see out.

Lead by example, make sure none of the staff ever lift. and try and use the same goggles yourself as the customers. i bet you wear some nice new thermal JTs and the punters wear some crappy old scratched up things.

and if that still dont work, get them out. give them a few warnings, but if they carry on throw them out. if you let them carry on lifting and then they get injured it becomes YOUR fault for not doing anything about it. the local gutter press campaigning to shut you down is never worth trying to keep a difficult group in the game.

i've had loads of kids in the last few weeks with it being the easter hols. Had a few nightmare 'youth club' type groups in which were hard work but most were ok after reading them the roit act. threw out one group for safety reason, not just goggles but gun safety too. (im sure some of these group send them to me instead of letting them roam the streets nicking cars!!)
 

wee-man

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Aug 22, 2001
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some jokes to cheer you up gogger

.
>A blonde had just gotten a new sports car and was out for a drive when
>she accidentally cut off a truck driver. The truck driver motioned for
>her to pull over. When she did, he got out of his truck and pulled a
>piece of chalk from his pocket. He drew a circle on the side of the road
>and gruffly commanded to the blonde, "Stand in that circle and DON'T
>MOVE!".
>He then went to her car and cut up her leather seats. When he turned
>around she had a slight grin on her face. "Oh you think that's funny.?
>Watch this!" He gets a baseball bat out of his truck and breaks every
>window in her car. When he turns and looks at her she has a smile on her
>face. He is getting really mad. He gets his knife back out and slices
>all her tyres. Now she's laughing. The truck driver is really starting
>to lose it.
>He goes back to his truck and gets a can of gas, pours it on her car and
>sets it on fire. He turns around and she is laughing so hard she is
>almost falling over. "What's so funny?" the truck driver asked the
>blonde. She replied, "Every time you weren't looking, I stepped outside
>the circle.>A large woman, wearing a sleeveless sun dress, walked into a bar in
>London.
>She raised her right arm, revealing a huge, hairy armpit as she pointed
>to all the people sitting at the bar and asked, "What man here will buy
>a lady a drink?"
>The bar went silent as the patrons tried to ignore her.
>But down at the end of the bar, an owly-eyed drunk slammed his hand down
>on the counter and bellowed, "Give the ballerina a drink!"
>The bartender poured the drink and the woman chugged it down. She turned
>to the patrons and again pointed around at all of them, revealing the
>same hairy armpit, and asked, "What man here will buy a lady a drink?"
>Once again, the same little drunk slapped his money down on the bar and
>said, "Give the ballerina another drink!"
>The bartender approached the little drunk and said, "I say, old chap,
>it's your business if you want to buy the lady a drink, but why do you
>keep calling her the ballerina?'"
>"As far as I'm concerned", the drunk replied, "any woman who can lift
>her leg that high has got to be a ballerina!"
>
>Aer Lingus Flight 101 was flying from Heathrow to Dublin one night with
>Paddy the Pilot and Shamus the co-pilot.
>As they approached Dublin airport, they looked out the front window.
>"B'jeesus" said Paddy "Will ye look at how fookin short dat runway is".
>"You're not fookin kiddin Paddy", replied Shamus.
>"Dis is gonna be one a de trickiest landings you're ever gonna see" said
>Paddy.
>"You're not fookin kiddin Paddy", replied Shamus.
>"Right Shamus. When I give de signal, you put de engines in reverse"
>said Paddy.
>"Right, I'll be doing dat" replied Shamus.
>"And den ye put de flaps down straightaway" said Paddy.
>"Right, I'll be doing dat" replied Shamus.
>"And den ye stamp on dem brakes as hard as ye can" said Paddy.
>"Right, I'll be doing dat" replied Shamus.
>"And den ye pray to de Mother Mary with all a' your soul" said Paddy
>"I be doing dat already" replied Shamus.
>So they approached the runway with Paddy and Shamus full of nerves and
>sweaty palms.
>As soon as the wheels hit the ground, Shamus put the engines in reverse,
>put the flaps down, stamped on the brakes and prayed to Mother Mary with
>all of his soul.
>Amidst roaring engines, squealing of tyres and lots of smoke, the plane
>screeched to a halt centimetres from the end of the runway, much to the
>relief of Paddy and Shamus and everyone on board.
>As they sat in the cockpit regaining their composure, Paddy looked out
>the front window and said to Shamus "Dat has gotta be de shortest fookin
>runway I have EVER seen in me whole life".
>Shamus looked out the side window and replied "Yeah Paddy, but Look how
>fookin wide it is".
>
>A pregnant Irish woman from Dublin gets in a car accident and falls into
>deep coma. Asleep for nearly 6 months, when she wakes up she sees that
>she is no longer pregnant and frantically asks the doctor about her
>baby.
>The doctor replies, "Ma'am you had twins! a boy and a girl. Your brother
>from Cork came in and named them."
>The woman thinks to herself, "Oh No, not my brother... he's an idiot!"
>She asks the doctor,"Well, what's the girl's name?" "Denise."
>"Wow, that's not a bad name, I like it! What's the boy's name?"
>"Denephew."
>
>Ireland's worst air disaster occurred today when a small 2- seater
>Cessna plane crashed into a cemetery this afternoon in central Ireland.
>Irish search and rescue workers have recovered 826 bodies so far and
>expect that number to climb as digging continues into the night.
>
>A woman walked up to a little old man rocking in a chair on his porch.
>"I couldn't help noticing how happy you look," she said.
>"What's your secret for a long happy life?"
>"I smoke three packs of cigarettes a day," he said. "I also do a gramme
>of charlie a day, a spliff every night, a case of whiskey a week, eat
>junk food, and never exercise, and do pills on the weekend."
>"That's amazing," said the woman, "how old are you?'
>"Twenty-six."
 

Philip

Whip it out..
Mar 24, 2002
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At our local field they get a box that the paint comes in, rest' it on a table and shoots it. When they see the paintballs go through and come out the other side in one piece, most of them end up hiding during the games, let alone touching their mask. It works much better if there is a sheet of metal behind the box to make the echo :p

-Philip
 

shamu

Tonight we dine in hell
Apr 17, 2002
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Must say I like some of the suggestions so far. Don't think the boss would go for staples but I'm going to suggest the "I'm stupid" vest idea.

My favorite thing to do is make it a group participation thing - guy lifts his mask on the field I pull him and the guy next to him. After the first time I do that, everybody in the group starts pitching in :D

Nothing beats hearing two guys yelling at a third to put his goggles on. Saves me the run across the field.

We also have the usual barrel plug violations. I found that reminding the group early on that if the guy next to you doesn't have his plug in, it's most likely _your_ eye that's going to suffer. Once again, group participation.
 

Burb

#1 Soi Cowboy.
Nov 27, 2001
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Rental players are a pain in the ass.
I have marshalled a right bunch of ****s before, people who refuse to stop dry firing there guns. Threatning to shoot you if you give them penalty points and just general being a bunch of ****ers.
We have a zero-tolerance on mask lifting, it works better but its far from 100%.

I have had a marine threatning to beat the **** out of someone for shooting his girlfriend point-blanc in the back of the head AFTER the game had finished, we tryed to sort it out but the weasel who shot her shrunk and denied everything. Leaving a VERY pissed off marine playing paintball all day......