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“Pietermaritzburg – A young woman on Tuesday described her terrifying ordeal after a high-speed chase where hooligans with paintball guns targeted her vehicle….”
Thumpy Covey's insight:
See, its not happening JUST in the USA….people can misuse any item, to the detriment of any game…paintball, airsoft, cars, motorcycles…Ham Radios…. Don’t be that guy….CLICK THE PIC to read the story, and thanks/hat tip to our buddy Ronaldo in K-Zed-N for pushing this one along!
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“Jennifer Ewing said she was riding down Summit Street near E. 7th Avenue when she saw something frightening. “I look over and I see about eight guys standing and pointing a gun at me,” she said. Ewing says the paintball gun resembled a real firearm. She’s glad it wasn’t. “When one is pointed at you, it looks real,” she said. (emphasis added-T)
Ewing was injured just one week after police say 20-year-old Thomas Woodruff fired a paintball gun in southeast Columbus, striking a man in the eye. That man lost his vision and Woodruff was charged with felonious assault…..”
Thumpy Covey's insight:
BUT, NO…they don’t need to be regulated as a dangerous big-bad-mean old airsoft guns, BB gun, or REAL Pew Pew guns are…we have “markers”….hoooBoyeeeee! CLICK THE PIC to see the VIDEO and the whole story
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“Its a slow news week so we drag out the old Airsoft vs paintball debate and we discuss our favorite tactical footwear. Enjoy!…”
Thumpy Covey's insight:
Man, PAINTBALL and one company in particular take it in the ballzack in this week’s GAR P’cast! Listen and hit the TWO TWO TWO TWO to leave the guys a “Hell Yea!”
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“This page contains scans from my large collection of paintball magazines….”
Thumpy Covey's insight:
IF you guys really want to know where airsoft came from, its hidden in the pages captured here on this very old and musty electronic-magazine pile at OLD PAINTBALL MAGAZINES. The same growing pains, the same “Arms Races”, the camo Gucci scene, the growth of sites, stores and the industry. The story of AIRSOFT is the story of PAINTBALL, and that’s why a site like this is very, very important to watch, scroll and learn from….”Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it….” Ask TIM “No Airsoft for Old Men” Ellwood. He was there…. Silly-Ballerz!
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"...Natalie Barbon, a clerk at Hallmark, said she never saw the man come in with the paintball gun, but witnessed the aftermath.
Thumpy Covey's insight:
Oh, no one will EVER mistake a paintball gun for a real firearm, certainly not police...who, in this story, can't even properly identify its look alike properties to a real firearm... AK, puhlease! See, this is why Paintball needs to keep throwing AIRSOFT UNDER THE BUS! Thanks! I'd like to know if any crossover 'Silly-Ballerz/'Softers here might be able to properly ID that gun...so we can call out the company involved....PM Me at my FB (Al Covey-Thumpy)
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"Episode #108 is now available for your listening pleasure. On this episode we discuss the brawl at Jericho, what Dianne Feinstein and pro paintball players have in common, and we announce our Shot Show "Tag for Swag" contest. Enjoy!...."
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Man, FB is sucking it royally! THIS PODCAST has been out for over a week now...and we're JUST GETTING THE REMINDER! Thanks Zuckerschmuck! Get into the details and find out if you can still win some SHOT Show SWAG!
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"Tippmann Sports brings legendary performance and durability to the world of airsoft with the M4 Carbine! Already a hit in the airsoft community, the crowd could not get enough of the Tippmann M4 Carbine at Paintball Extravaganza!..."
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"Balls?" Balls, he says....well...In case you don't know, P-ballz big winter event for fields, sites and vendors is going on this week...and the guys at Badlands TV are covering some cross-over stuff at the expo...where we first saw Tippmann reveal the M4 last year. Silly Balllerz!
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"Steve Rabackoff has played with some of the biggest teams ever to walk onto a paintball field, and helped evolve the sport. Matty talks with him about his history, the 2015 season, and his thoughts on the game...."
Thumpy Covey's insight:
Start listening at 12:30...and see what some of the "top guys" in paintball really think about the state of airsoft and their own game. Remember this when GI SPORTZ wants to start selling your products....file this away. Why, Silly Ballerz, why?
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"...The [paintball] industry saw explosive growth from 1998 to 2006, the years when the military was in the early stages of its offensive in Afghanistan and Iraq. But the growth slowed down from 2008 till 2012, incidentally the same years when the majority of the American public wanted the army out of these countries. The last three years, again, have seen the industry grow at a steady 2 percent annual growth rate. … Total Paintball Gear, one of the older, more successful retailers in this industry, introduced special..."
Thumpy Covey's insight:
Crazy thinking from TOTAL PAINTBALL GEAR in a "press release" picked up and linked by Tactical Life.com...if you REALLY think the latest pendulum swing of paintball "happened" this way...your really ARE a SILLY BALLER!
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An unusual job advert for someone to have paintballs shot at them to test their impact has attracted more than 10,000 applications from across the world.
Thumpy Covey's insight:
Hahahaha! We like this ideas so much, SILLY-BALLERZ is going to be a "New Thing" in the New Year here at the 3D House...we won't be mean, but when PB guys do something that makes us giggle...UP IT GOES TO THE SCOOP! BEST QUOTE: "I'm a rugby player and I used to play airsoft without protection so I know physical pain. I can also break watermelon with my head...." SILLY BALLERZ!
Thumpy Covey's curator insight,
January 3, 2015 2:58 PM
Hahahaha! We like this ideas so much, SILLY-BALLERZ is going to be a "New Thing" in the New Year here at the 3D House...we won't be mean, but when PB guys do something that makes us giggle...UP IT GOES TO THE SCOOP! BEST QUOTE: "I'm a rugby player and I used to play airsoft without protection so I know physical pain. I can also break watermelon with my head...." SILLY BALLERZ! |
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THIS is one for the history books…but, even better, a traveling exhibit that chronicles the 1980’s and 90’s Paintball “Arms Race”…a similar phenomenon to the one that’s currently sweeping airsoft businesses, fields and players.
Paintball Marshal’s Traveling Museum of Oddities is more than a ‘side show spinnoff’ for the ‘ballerz. Captured on video in 2007 by Jay Holsing on his YT chan, it shows the progression of technology, from the tree-marking Nelson “Nel-Spot 007″ and SplatMaster up through the pump and fully-automatic offerings that changed the game, created its on levels of drama, intrigue and controversy…and eventually shaped paintball AND AIRSOFT into the games they are now. Fascinating stuff that Thumpy remembers from the early days of our “other” game, and a cautionary tale that many in airsoft could do well to study and learn from in this age of instant celebrity, expertise and social commentary…learn before you burn, kiddies!