Airsoft Horror stories

Seth_K said:
The game had stopped for a break and both teams told to sit in an open field, guns down and eye pro off if you wanted.

A kid aims his pistol at his mates face and pulls the trigger, no idea if there was a BB in it. Missed, empty, whatever, kid was fine.

Head Marshal goes nuts, big guy, drags said kid off for a word. End of the day he's put up to a fence, facing away from us, and the whole team lit him up for 3 secs on full auto.

I stood there but I couldn't pull the trigger. The pictures of his back made me feel sick, felt like a of a war crime.

Imagine seeing your kid like that. A day to forget tbh.
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shanerutter said:
Never understand the sites where marshals use punishments like this as your venturing outside of a game into a very gray area / physical & mental abuse (possibly breaking laws). Unless the victim agrees to said punishment, but then still its your own decision making which should tell you this is wrong (as I presum you probably thought and didnt pull the trigger).
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yeah, definitely very dubious, especially as the word "kid" keeps being used ?.

me, id have prob banned him for the rest of the day, as it sounded like naive stupidity, & if he ever came back he'd get a bollocking before the safety briefing.

 
Seth_K said:
The game had stopped for a break and both teams told to sit in an open field, guns down and eye pro off if you wanted.

A kid aims his pistol at his mates face and pulls the trigger, no idea if there was a BB in it. Missed, empty, whatever, kid was fine.

Head Marshal goes nuts, big guy, drags said kid off for a word. End of the day he's put up to a fence, facing away from us, and the whole team lit him up for 3 secs on full auto.

I stood there but I couldn't pull the trigger. The pictures of his back made me feel sick, felt like a of a war crime.

Imagine seeing your kid like that. A day to forget tbh.
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It's straight bullshit. Seth's expecting us to believe that a marshal is both simultaneously concerned about safety such that he'll bollock someone for using a RIF irresponsibly, but also make everyone sit down in the middle of a game, taking eyepro off if you want. Outside of the safe zone? I really, really, really doubt this happened.

If it did, name and shame.

 
DrAlexanderTobacco said:
make everyone sit down in the middle of a game, taking eyepro off if you want. Outside of the safe zone? I really, really, really doubt this happened.
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Have seen this happen at EAG Dorking. One particular marshal said we could take our eyepro off on the skirmish field once the battle had ended.

Course I didn't. But many others did. 

 
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Asomodai said:
Have seen this happen at EAG Dorking. One particular marshal said we could take our eyepro off on the skirmish field once the battle had ended.

Course I didn't. But many others did. 
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+1 to this. Unfortunately, not the best aspect of playing at Dorking - an otherwise great site.

At the end of a big game and everyone's hot and bothered, of course it's tempting to take your mask off if the marshall deems it ok to do so, I did it once, at my first time there, but not on any subsequent visit.

They tell people to clear their weapons, mag out and safety on and if anyone fires once they're banned.

But still, why would you risk it?

If that one guy who pulls the trigger once happens to catch you in the eye, it's not worth the risk...

 
L3wisD said:
+1 to this. Unfortunately, not the best aspect of playing at Dorking - an otherwise great site.

At the end of a big game and everyone's hot and bothered, of course it's tempting to take your mask off if the marshall deems it ok to do so, I did it once, at my first time there, but not on any subsequent visit.

They tell people to clear their weapons, mag out and safety on and if anyone fires once they're banned.

But still, why would you risk it?

If that one guy who pulls the trigger once happens to catch you in the eye, it's not worth the risk...
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Especially if one person went to safe zone to fix a broken weapon and comes back thinking the game is still going and start shooting at a figure behind a bush they don't have sight of. 

 
Asomodai said:
Have seen this happen at EAG Dorking. One particular marshal said we could take our eyepro off on the skirmish field once the battle had ended.

Course I didn't. But many others did. 
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Yeah I did think this was very strange... 

Myself and few others all kept our eyepro on and just looked at each other a little bemused!

Just thought of another 'incident'

I was playing a game at Combat South and had completely ran out of ammo so went back to the safe zone mid skirmish to reload. 

Whilst sat there two lads headed back into the safe zone one complaining of a really painful hit.

I turned around to ask where and what had happened, expecting to see a nasty bleeder on the face or something...

He just grinned at me and one of his two upper front teeth had just disappeared, I mean had pretty much broken off cleanly with his gum line! 

Absolutely savage! ? 

 
DrAlexanderTobacco said:
It's straight bullshit. Seth's expecting us to believe that a marshal is both simultaneously concerned about safety such that he'll bollock someone for using a RIF irresponsibly, but also make everyone sit down in the middle of a game, taking eyepro off if you want. Outside of the safe zone? I really, really, really doubt this happened.

If it did, name and shame.
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Tackle said:
yeah, definitely very dubious, especially as the word "kid" keeps being used ?.

me, id have prob banned him for the rest of the day, as it sounded like naive stupidity, & if he ever came back he'd get a bollocking before the safety briefing.
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shane213 said:
Never understand the sites where marshals use punishments like this as your venturing outside of a game into a very gray area / physical & mental abuse (possibly breaking laws). Unless the victim agrees to said punishment, but then still its your own decision making which should tell you this is wrong (as I presum you probably thought and didnt pull the trigger).
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Yeah, it did feel like abuse.

Sorry to name and shame but... it was at Tactical Warfare Airsoft in Croydon. Maybe 2 years back.

A few members of The Wraith Blades were there is anyone knows that group. One of them had the pictures of the kid's back.

 
Seth_K said:
Sorry to name and shame but... it was at Tactical Warfare Airsoft in Croydon. Maybe 2 years back.

A few members of The Wraith Blades were there is anyone knows that group. One of them had the pictures of the kid's back.
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Why am I not surprised...

 
Seth_K said:
Just read your review of the site. Been there myself 4-5 times, probably a bad place to start playing.

Might go to Red 1 next month, the SCAR is off to Camoraids for a folding to fixed stock conversion, so after that.
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I wont be back ;)

At Camoraids first thing tomorrow to pick up a couple of rifles that were to be repaired myself. 

 
Can’t back him up on his incident BUT I have also seen a couple of players given a firing squad for breaching safety rules over the years , one was up against a wall (was a bit too much for my liking) and the other was a player who had to run across the field in front of the firing squad who would only stop firing once he reach a patch of tarmac . 

 
Worse one ive had personally is throwing an enola gaye EG67 through a window, it bounced off the frame and went off an inch from my face. Shook me up for a couple of minutes before i joined everyone elses hesistant laughter....?

Other from that an occasional idiot wandering into the game zone forgetting to pull down their eye pro, lost dog walkers popping up in the middle of a firefight and rentals deciding to mag up in the safezone. 

nevertheless the marshalls dealt with it amicably , as for the look on the dog walkers faces ...... i wish i had my camera

 
Chopper92 said:
lost dog walkers popping up in the middle of a firefight 
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Funnily enough similar’ish incident two yrs ago at the NAE , ground zero’s site is on the sumerlize estate and they have a music festival at the big house at the same time . SO halfway through Saturday afternoon a group of about 20 yuppies turn up on the track after being dropped of by taxi’s at the entrance intent on walking through the game zone to get to the music festival AND no one was going to stop them ! And one was a lawyer and he knew his rights so there ! ?‍♂️

You then have a good 10mins of marshals and semi pissed yuppies arguing the toss over going through or NOT going through the game site , at this point one of the seniors turns up with a 249 proceeds to walk a good 50yds up the road in the opposite direction from this ‘discussion’ shred the undergrowth with it and then invites them to look at the damage it had done and then asked them did they still want to enter the gamezone as this potentially is what they could be dealing with .

 Was at this point they turned around and walked back they way they came ! Humour of the situation aside can you imagine the shit storm too follow if they’d ACTUALLY entered the gamezone? Not even worth thinking about ! 

 
Antny said:
I remember marshaling one time and we had a group of regulars who never liked to wear face pro, a scarf was enough to them. Playing a simple attack and defend mode and a little kid on the defending team was hunkered down inside an old transit van. Along comes a guy not wearing face pro and for some reason, knowing someone is inside the van, decides to pop his head in the passenger window. Pretty much went down as you would expect, 2 front teeth shot out and screaming blue murder at this kid for "blind firing". 

Saw him back a few months later after spending over £300 on dentures, didn't bother spending the £15 on a face mask tho, still didn't wear one. 
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There is no cure for stupid

 
A marshal at my local, having checked that every other skirmisher was wearing correct eye pro when leaving the safe area, failed to check himself and only noticed once he was about to call game on, a quarter of a mile from the safe area!

 
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