Canada - BC - Lowermainland Incident

[Chimpu]

I was just watching the news and a girl named Scarlett was blinded by a paintball. Some kids were shooting it in a park and hit her in the eye. She is blind now.

I'm not sure where this was because I only caught the end of the story but they showed close ups of single coloured shelled paintballs (looked generic) and a 12 gram CO2 cylinder.

Just posting to say that the Contraversy over paintball is still on.

They posted some weird facts about paintball including 1 in 3000 paintball players are injured, the average paintball player is 19 and that the paintball is expescially lethal because it fits perfectly into the average eye socket.

[xIrish]

all the controversy is getting on my nerves. Paintball is one of the safest sports in the world (less fatalities than golf, bowling, croquet, basketball, football, ping-pong...you name it).

last halloween a grandma was shot in the eye by paintball vandals after she opened the door for a "trick or treat". yeah, it's terrible, and the people that do such things are giving paintball a bad rep and shouldn't be allowed to play.

[Chimpu]

The Paintball Marker MUST have been bought at a Wall Mart or something, cause it was a 12 gram co2 cylinder. And I'm pretty sure it was a brass eagle talon or something. Or a Samurai.

[llSmithll]

just about every gun with the standard asa can use 12 grams

[Chimpu]

They "can" use it.
But why would any experienced paintballer want to hook up a 12 gram cylinder to an autococker running at 400 PSI? It would maybe gas up the tubes in the marker.
Anyone with a high end marker would use high end air.
If you are putting more then $200 into your marker you are probably going to get a HPA tank.
And even if you have a lower end Spyder or Tippman you are going to use at least a 4 0z tank.

12 grams just don't cut it with the average blow back.
that's why I think it was a brass eagle, or Wall-mart bought gun.

[levi333]

There is such thing as Stock Class. Phantoms aint no "Walmart" gun.

[Chimpu]

Anyone "pro" enough to play stock class wouldn't be wailing their marker randomly in a public park and accidently shooting an innocent.

I'm sayign is the person probablly wasn't very informed about his paintball marker. He probably had never played on a real field before.

[Jaster]

He's got a point. Most real players with good equipment wouldn't bother doing something like that. I agree that it most likely would be a punk with a walmart special. That seems to fit the profile better then a kid with a Phantom or a cocker.

[Scootscr15]

Yes, us and our stereotypes,, ahh i love em, but honestly, it could have been anyone, but then again anyone with the knowledge of paintball,,, even our little noobs, know better than to shoot around people without masks, And the "wal mart special" as you call it, is very accesible to little punks who do bad things with them,, i think walmart should stop selling paintball stuff . . . the end.. even though a lot of players got into the sport through wal mart

[russpaintballer]

I feel bad for that little girl. There she goes, walking in the park, and BAM! She's blind. She'll never see anything again.:(

I wish I could get my hands on the punk(s) that did this.:pissed: