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spydernut1
01-05-2004, 01:03 PM
"kids at risk in paintball game"
chicago- hundreds of children suffer eye injuries eachyear from paintballs while playing a simulated war game in which guns fire gelatain capsules filled with paint, a resaecher said today.
teeneage boys playing in formal versions of the war game often dispense with protective gear, leaving them vulnerabl to disabling eye injuries, study author david listman of st. barnabs hospital in new york wrote in pediactricts, a medical journal published by the american acadamey of pediactricts.
based on data from between 1997 and 2000, listman estimated threre were 500 eye injuries annually from paintballs to u.s. children 15 or younger. paintball guns use compressed gas to fire capsules containing water soluable paint.
stu[id kids like that make parents always give me crap on how "dangerous" paintballing is. ( which it isnt if u go by the rules and common sense

nerdcore
01-05-2004, 01:10 PM
cuervo beat ya to it in the general forum. people who responded were as miffed as you are. just more evidence that the "informative media" focuses on the negative.