Run-ins with the law...

[Schwartz]

Has anyone here ever had any problems with coppers while they were playing paintball?

For instance, anyone ever get nabbed while playing outlaw?

Anyone with interesting stories or comments are welcome to share them.

[WVprankster]

Two of the guys i play outlaw ball with are cops. they usually make sure people leave us alone.

[HondaRacer2120]

nope.....all the people by me are cool with us:)

[WVprankster]

we used to not have a problem, but one time we were playing during deer season and a stupid 14 year old hunter ignored the tapes that we set up to lineate the field. he didn't get hit, but it sure scared the hell out of him.

[Schwartz]

I have yet to have any problems myself, but the woods that me and my friends play at are partly shared by a model airplane flyers club and a chapter of the National Beagle Club of America.

We all have our own very friendly understandings and seperate portions of the land so we dont interfere with each other.

But recently, one of the beagles got loose and interfered with one of our games, and one of the real grouchy, old airplane flyers claimed that "one day, someone might tip off the marshall as to whats going on in those woods".
So things are little tense right now where we play.

[carrim]

What an *******...

Lemme guess, stuck up prick?

[Schwartz]

No, actually this grumpy, old 85 year old guy.
Some old WWII vet.
He thinks that because we are shooting guns that we are "disrespectful to those who really fight for our country".

IF hes not careful, im gonna shoot one of his planes out of the sky one day...lol

[slickguy55]

this doesnt have any cops involved but.... my friend live about 300 yards from me and on the way to his house is this subdivision pool. next to the pool is a big grassed sewer pit(its clean) we call it "the pit". We set up a speedball course their. In the summer around 3:00 in the afternoon a night before a tourney, i had a friend over(whos in the tourney with me) and we went over to my friends house who lives by the pool to get a little more practice. And their was this this kid their (14 yrs) up at the pool yelling at us "IM CALLING THE COPS" of course he was kiding with us. Then the after the next round was over the kid yelled "Shoot me so i can call the cops" so i aimed my cocker at him, i was bluffing but he didnt know it, so he went running like a lil pu$sy!!! hahaha


i dont why i wrote this down here.........but dont earase it it took time and effort to write it. :)

[Magnus55]

No don't do that. That's just being confrontational. Bring his airplane club some food (cookies, chips whatever) just as a token of friendship, and kinda feed his ego by asking him to tell you about WWII. Most vets have lots of interesting stories to tell about their experiences in war, and for the most part they enjoy telling their stories. Ask him for strategy pointers and tactical advice to aply to paintball. Many elderly people are lonely and want to feel important and needed. Who knows he might actually have something to improve your game. Just flatter them and kiss butt. It sure goes a long way, and they'll go away thinking "wow, those paintball boys sure are nice young gentlemen" :D

[paintball bimbo]

This isn't about runnin into the law but runnin into a neighbor.We play a safe outlaw bunkerball behind my friends house.He doesn't own the land but the people that do say its ok.We put yellow tape around hazardous areas and outlined the playing field with string.We set up some nifty bunkers and picked up some used tires people just dropped off down a hill ( we helped the enviroment :) ).Anyway we just chrn'd our markers and since I won the last game I had to go last to find a starting position.So i patiently waited until everyone aws out of sight and chose the nearest bunker.Right when another friend blew the whistle tons of outside noises (car steros,hydrolics,ambulances,crazy people screaming,crazy people honking at nothing,etc etc) and I could not hear anything.Whats more we were playing with newbies so I knew there was some campin goin on.I saw sombody standing just outside the string which was our border.It scared the **** out of me because he was too tall to be one of our newbs and everyone else knew to not go beyond that.I stood up and he just ran off as my other friends found each other and started a fire fight.He ran to the house next door (who owned the land).Right then I was goged.Not a very good feeling,especially since it wasn't your fault.LOL..The neighbors called the next day saying thier nephew got curious after his uncle not telling him to go there.He's lucky it wasn't a newb that spotted him,cause they'd probably try to gog him without checking.We waited an hour before going back out after I stopped the game to make sure no one was back there and than resumed.Sorry so long,but I think it proves a point taht outlaw players should be careful and that curoius nephews should respect and listen to thier uncles.

[Chandler]

Me and my friend were going to the field when we decided to got to ride by some mud pits by the interstae to see how they were cause it has just rained VERY hard rain. Well we went down the dirt road and rounded a curve and there sat 2 cop cars and the owner of the land. The owner said people had been down there earlier shooting paintball guns, right after that the cop asked us what was in the case and we told him paintball guns. Boy did it look BAD for us. it wasnt us that was shooting them and we went down there because the no trespassing sign was hidden behind a limb of a tree. After giving giving details to where we were going and a long lecture and a warning they let us go to the field only to find it wasn't open. =(

[FormalTrout]

I try and avoid the police altogether. I'm totally with Mag55 most people are really nice. And it takes a bigger man to be nice:goody: