^agreed.

i would have whipped around and emptied the hopper on him.

jmac3 wrote: He was 13. Give him a break. Tell him that's not what you do.

No, there are no breaks when it comes to safe behavior. And its his fathers job to explain to junior.

Gatyr wrote: ammolord wrote: how so? it was fair game. if some little douchbag wants to shoot me point blank hes going to get what he deserves no matter how old hes is. He shot you first after you offered the surrender option, and then proceeded to empty a hopper on the poor kid? How is that fair?

**edit** better with an explanation?

bravecoward wrote: Cry about it sissy

Seriously.

You knew, or should have known, that 13-year-olds were permitted on this field, and you chose to participate anyway.  Kids do silly things.  Deal.

Of course, this is paintball, where jerks are a bigger problem than kids.  They also do silly things, and we chose to play anyway.  We deal.

Yelling at a kid for being a kid:  NOT cool.

This makes you one of the aforementioned jerks.  As a (presumably) adult, it is your reponsibility to educate, not discourage.

If I own a field and some kid overshoots during a game, I have a chat with him and watch him for the rest of the day.

Some guy deliberately lights up a kid AFTER a game, that guy is gone and never coming back again, but only after I give his name to the kid's parents with a suggestion to call the police.

Stuff happens during games.  Between games, there is no excuse for anybody to be shooting each other.

im 16, the kid was 14, not a big age differance.

and the way i saw it, the field rules stated that if someone says surrender, then immediatly put your gun up and walk off. insted of doing that, he turned and brought up his marker. the way i see it, if he was goint to shoot i was goint to shoot back. i dont see where i was wrong if he was shooting at me AFTER he was already out.

**edit** i can see what your saying rambino. but thats YOUR course. and it wasent after, it was durring.

Bonus balls are apart of the game, get over it.

I once had a grown man throw a fit because he was out and thought that he wouldn't get hit by the stream of paint he was about to walk into, by simply lifting his hands. So when he walked through it and got shot up, for basically being stupid, he wanted me to take the guy out who shot him. I said no and told him about tunnel vision and the fact that people in a fire fight won't stop for you, you have to go around them. He got pissed and started yelling and cursing, told him if he didn't like my judgement call, to go talk to the manager. He did and got the exact same result. Haven't seen him since.

Sometimes I'll get hit and won't stop to check myself to see if it broke before i fired back and tried to eliminate the player shooting at me. I usually go ahead and walk out if its a fair game but when somebody is wiping all day i don't hesitate to hit the guy a few extra times even after he's tagged me. If I know it breaks on me i'll keep playing until the other team or the ref calls me out for sure.

When that idiot shot me in the back of the head from four feet away I did not shoot him back. I did yell at him, well I did use alot of curse words. I understand why his father ran up to me. I'd protect my sosn too. When we were arguing he told me it was his sons second time and to cut him a break. I told the father after swearing at him that if it was his second game he should know the safty rules and he shouldn't be using a marker at 30+ bps. I don't feel badly for yelling at the boy, infact I feel justified. Just because a peson is young and inexperianced does not give them the freedom to run unchecked and to not obey the rules. Infact because he was so new he should have extra carefull in following safe proceedure. He could have tapped me and said your out, but instead he chose to go cowboy and fire 10+ balls into the back of my skull at close range. While Perhaps there may have been a better way to handle the situation, I don't believe that I acted wrongly. It is one thing to sit back in you livingroom describing what you would have done, and another completely to be in that situation and to react.

notom66866 wrote:  It is one thing to sit back in you livingroom describing what you would have done, and another completely to be in that situation and to react.

What - you think you are the only one that has gotten lit up by a kid?

Happens all the time.

Last year I got shot repeatedly in the back of my head at about four feet - by a member of my own team.  Not because she thought I was on the other team, but just because she aimed poorly trying to shoot over me.

Neither the first nor the last time I have suffered pain and/or humiliation at the hand of young/inexperienced players.  We have all been there.

My 11 year old daughter has been bugging me to let her play paintball with my friends. But, I've been apprehensive about it. Two weekends ago her home school co-op had a paintball event with a bunch of her friends going. So I figured we might as well go.

I've never played at a "official" paintball field before, I've played for years in private woodsball games. I borrowed all my father in laws stuff for my daughter, full helmet jt flex 8 mask, I gave her my neck guard, and tried to talk her into wearing my gloves... But, she said "no thanks". I told her it really hurts to get hit in the fingers... But, she said she would be fine.

We went out to play, and they chrono'd the markers, and went over the rules. First game out we had a blast. I made sure she stayed with me and we went to a good bunker right up front in the first game. I felt a little guilty picking off so many young kids on the other side... But, I figured they would be fine. We stayed in that bunker and my daughter had a blast. She shot a kid who wore a bright red shirt to the game...

After the third game, my daughter still hadn't been hit yet, and had killed a bunch of people, so I figured we should start playing more aggressively. I told her to follow me and we progressed up one side of the field, from bunker to bunker, until we came to the last bunker in front of their flag. I saw two guys in the bunker and shot both of them, and told her to follow me.

When I reached the bunker I looked over it (it was about 20 feet long) and I saw a kid on the other side all the way down at the end. He was too far to call "mercy Kill". So I shot him in the leg. I saw the paint break and heard him yell out. So I forgot about him. As another guy from the main fort had started shooting at us. I told my daughter who was out in the open next to me, to follow me back behind the backside of the bunker, and we started back there, shooting at the other guy along the way. I got about 3/4 of the way to the other corner, when I tripped over a branch and started falling. At the same time the little kid I had shot behind the bunker came out and lit me up in the back. I counted 8 shots on my back and hip and shoulder as I fell...

not fun. But, its paintball. My daughter got hit in the trigger finger and because the kid was so close to us her finger started bleeding.

We put up our hands and headed out of the game. As the ref came over and called the kid I had shot earlier "out". I asked my daughter if she wanted to go home, and she said "No way, this is way to much fun". We played the rest of the day. Her finger swelled up pretty good, and my back is still sore with huge bruises. But, thats paintball.

Back at the camp, the kid that lit me up was bragging to his friends about how he had torn some old guy up on the field. I walked over to him and pointed out that I had already eliminated him by shooting him in the leg, (the paint was still all over his leg) and he is not allowed to shoot point blank at people, especially that many times, and raised my shirt to show his friends all the welts on my back.

His friends couldn't believe he had done that, and the one kid said. "Man, you shot him in the back, after you were out, thats so wrong".

Point made, no need to get angry.

I did notice who his dad was and I made sure to eliminate him a few times, just for fun...

i agree that perhaps I should not have yelled at the boy, however it seems to me that they are allowing children who are too young to play this game. Now this will make me sound like an old but but whe ni started playing you had to be 16 with parental consent to start. I know a good way to grow the sport is get youth involved but it eems to me that it is unwise to give a marker to a 13 year old.

It totally depends on the kid, I think. My 11 year old girl is fine. But, she is level headed and we play with guns in our backyard, so she has proper gun safety in mind.

Oh, and I'm not fat, I'm big boned.

Those kids are probably scarred for life...