AO the Paintball Industry Needs Your Help With the Attack in LA

[AGD]

AO,

Several industry people have asked me to ask YOU to help with this. As you might have heard a 51 year old man was shot by paintballs over the weekend. He was on rollerblades and slipped and hit his head. He is now in a coma and on life support. Several witnesses saw kids with paintguns on the cliff above but they have not been arrested yet.

Someone must know these guys! Please keep your ears and eyes open for any info from the California area that might lead to their arrest. I just got off the phone with Budd Orr and the reporters have hit each one of his retail stores today.

There already have been published reports of the incident which left out the fact that the guy slipped and then hit his head. They just read "Man in coma after paintball attack". We need to use the power of AO to try and bring these guys to justice!

Thanks from the entire paintball industry.

AGD

[magman007]

Thats utterly horrible! i hadnt heard that yet. This can be nothing but bad news for the paintball industry. I will do all that i can, i will even contact my local news stations so that they get the story straight. Hopefully the guys out in LA can help identify these guys. I think everyone should contact their local news stations ant tell them before they air the story they better clarify that paintball is one of the safest sports and all that stuff. And if they have already aired the story please ask them to run a retraction.

[MikeCouves]

OMG. Why would someone do that? That really makes me real bad. An older man is now in a COMA because of these idiots. Some people just don't know the effect of something that seems like it can't be that bad. You could throw a snowball at a car and think it's hilarious, then what happens if the driver freaks when the ball hits the carm spins out of control into another a car, and everyone is killed? It's not that hard for it to happen, some people really need to mature, and grow up.

I am sorry for this man that has to go through this because of some immature idiots...let's track these people down people! This is a quite serious event that has happened.

[AllAmericanMag]

My God, I hate stupid people...

[Smoken]

THIS IS HORRIBLE!!!!! I just heard about this at school today from someone. I thought she was lying when she told me. The consequences this could have for our sport are horrible. A few little di**s think it would be fun to shoot an old man, and, thus, possibly ruin everyone else's chances to play anymore. Stupid people suck!

[SlipknotX556]

Thats just not right.

[Kajo]

Maybe the Paintball Community should get together as a group and hold some fundraisers to benefit the guy... pay his medical bills and such. That would take a little of the bad publicity off the paintball industry as a whole and place it more on a few stupid immature kids.

Kajo out-

[FooTemps]

::SIGH::
Unfortunately I know idiots like that in the Puget Sound area. Actually, my friends shoot up almost anything they can, they shoot cars, animals, and houses. Kinda sad but I'm trying to stop them from doing that crap.

[complicationjack]

FooTemps and other people that have friends like that i think have an obligation to make sure these people don't continue to ruin the reputation of paintball. People that i knew that did stupid things like that no longer can play with us -- end of story.

[TigerMan]

Seeing as they are kids, they were probably stupid enough to record the event. Find the kids and you will most likely find the proof soon after.

[Croix71]

Anyone have a link to an newspaper article that has more details about this? I've only seen part of a news report on local t.v. I think the attack was near Newport Beach?

[raehl]

Great....

This is just what I need when talking to Baltimore City Council people.

If you know someone who uses their marker for vandalism or any other crime, don't reason. Just call the cops on their *** before they cost you your ability to play.

- Chris

[Clare]

Maybe the Paintball Community should get together as a group and hold some fundraisers to benefit the guy... pay his medical bills and such.

This is a great idea. Someone could organize this and make an ao contribution as a whole. Also, between havoc_online and me we'd be able to contribute 20.00 to start out. Maybe Tom could receive any contributions and contact the man's family.

[Mr. Grumble]

A couple of links to the Orange County Register on-line.

link one

link two

The text from the Corona Press Enterprise
Skater Barraged With Paintballs
A 54-year-old inline skater remained in critical condition Monday with head injuries suffered after being attacked by youths firing paintballs.
Gary Holdren was skating alone Sunday when he was pelted by paintballs fired from a nearby bluff, which caused him to fall backward and strike his head on a concrete path, said police Lt. Mike Jackson. Witnesses told police they saw three youths armed with paintball guns.
Holdren was taken to Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center in Mission Viejo where he was listed Monday in critical condition, Jackson said.

This is very bad MoJo. If you can give the police any info please do not hesitate to speak out.

Anyone with information about the attack is asked to call Newport Beach detectives at (800) 550-6273.

Mr. Grumble

[soilent green]

This is bad

well another bad step backwards for the paintball community I really like the fundraiser Idea I have to say this is another reason we need to have licenses for paint guns I don't like it but we need to stop these idiots from going to wallmart and spending $70 on a stingray and paintballs to go shoot old ladys for a lafgh we need awarness courses and safty instruction to get the license and we need to make it so all ages can get the license for a reasonable fee its all well and good but of course it would never work to our advantage. This also reinforces the restriction of paintball markers on public property which is a bad thing.