Originally posted by Arlo
Damn! I was hoping to get some eyes put out because it's worth it.
Ahh, the story behind the reason. Well, it happened to somebody I met (I want to say his name is Jeff Kraft). He was walking out to run some drills, with his angel turned on, with a 1/2 mm pull, no trigger-return spring, no trigger guard, cradled in his arm pointing at his face, loaded with paint, with the air tank valve open, no barrel plug, and his goggles pushed up over his eyes...
Normally a story like this involves real firearms & a darwin award.
iirc, he stepped over a hole, the weight of the trigger depressed the microswitch, the bounces on the switch each registered as a "pull", spitting 3 paintballs vertically across his face. I can't remember if it was shell fragments that cut up his eye or it was a detatched retina. Either way, he survived. He even returned to 20/20 vision in that eye after just a few months.
So because some moron can't follow ANY of the basic safety principles (and field rules that he signed a paper saying he read, plus insurance waivers, etc)... now alot of us get to suffer.