what's the weirdest thing to happen to you on the way or from a game?

[ste887]

Re: what's the weirdest thing to happen to you on the way or from a game?

yeah kit has those "fast-release" clips on them for a reason

[Roxy]

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Have to agree. People get upset enough by people walking around with a hood up.

On the rare occasions that call for stopping in somewhere to or from a skirmish it's well worth covering up as much of your gear as possible

[ste887]

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We were all dressed in black gear with S10 gas masks around our neck and me wearing mine. We kinda walked into tescos as line and soon as we entered the looks we got were priceless. And i think i scared the shit out of cashier girl.

thats very irresponsible of you.
imagine turning i round. if people wearing combat kit walked into somewhere you were. youd be pretty shocked. no wonder airsofters are regarded as stupid.
you are lucky you dident get arrested by the anti-terrorist squad.

[Machaon]

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why would you show up at the nightclub with any of your gear? surely you had time to drop it off at a friends house or something?

All of my friends were at the club already, so there was nowhere else I could have left it.

It obviously wasn't an ideal situation, and I wouldn't do it again, but there wasn't really any other option.

[DCRISP07]

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That'd be funny until you got a nice trip to A+E with burns to your hands.

[RXAM]

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On the way to a airsoft game me and my mates stopped in tescos, to get some cash and food for lunch and dinner.
Well to save space in my mates car the 5 of us wear all our tactical gear.

We were all dressed in black gear with S10 gas masks around our neck and me wearing mine. We kinda walked into tescos as line and soon as we entered the looks we got were priceless. And i think i scared the shit out of cashier girl.



I once fell asleep on the way back from a skirmish to find my mates had tied me to a chair (im a very heavy sleeper). And they had placed a BB grenade in the ropes the held my hands together so if i tried to untie my hands KA-BOOM. I have never move for so long.

[caffin999]

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Perhaps the manager knew of airsoft. I have a pub near me where alot of the staff are softers. I recently sold one of the managers a pistol

yeah but I can't imagine any nightclub manager taking someone on their word without confirming the actual contents of the bag.

[Roxy]

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Perhaps the manager knew of airsoft. I have a pub near me where alot of the staff are softers. I recently sold one of the managers a pistol

[caffin999]

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and what nightclub would let you store a bag without actually looking in it? especially as you have said it has imitation weapons in there! the cloakroom isn't exactly hard to get in to if you had any weapons in the bag

[caffin999]

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why would you show up at the nightclub with any of your gear? surely you had time to drop it off at a friends house or something?

[DCRISP07]

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Wow even though they let you in, that's not the most responsible thing to do :P

[Machaon]

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Necropost to share a recent story..

I was going to an airsoft training session on Sunday. I was travelling down on the train the night before, and meeting my friends at a nightclub. I was obviously carrying my RIFs with me, in a gun bag with the stitched "Swiss Arms Softair Guns" logo on it.

As I queued to get in, I tried to think of what to tell the door security staff that wouldn't alarm them. Some clown behind me pipes up:
"'Ere, mate, wossin yer bag? A Gitarr?"
"Urhm, no. It's, uhm, fishing rods....." I reply, trying not to draw any more attention.
"Owright, is that so you can pull?"
"Hilarious," I reply, dryly.
At this point, someone in the queue behind me cheers. I look behind to see a police van tucked down the side of the club, with a TV crew inside, filming out at the crowds. By now I'm bricking it, I'm next in the queue for a busy club in a well-to-do town, with what could easily be mistaken as deadly weapons in my bags, and the police and TV crew are looking right on, and the doorman will ask to look inside my bags any minute now.
"Can I look inside your bags, please." Says the doorman. This is no request, it's an order.
Hmm, how can I put this without becoming a corpse, laying on Guildford High Street, having been shot by the local Flying Squad?
"I'm happy for you to look inside my bags, but before you do, I need to warn you that I'm participating in a military simulation tomorrow, and am carrying realistic toy guns in my bags. You're welcome to look at them, but I'd prefer if we do it somewhere a little less public."
the doorman looked a little stunned, and asked me to re-iterate what I'd told him. He then went and got his manager, who I explained the situation to.
"Yeah, no worries, mate, come on in! Don't worry, I won't ask you to take them out, we'll just put them in the cloakroom."

So, in the end, I didn't have to pay the door entry fee, only paid a small cloakroom fee, and I didn't get shot.

[Wølf]

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Not the weirdest thing but the most irritating.

Was coming back from a skirmish today in the rangerover when it run out of lpg so switched to petrol only to find the pump had given up the ghost so i called the missus to come get me and take me to the workshop where the bosses defender is kept.
So i hitch car trailer up to the defender and head off but when i got to my motor i found that its too big for the trailer (offroader so has BIG tyres) so i take trailer back and just get a mate to sit in the rangie whilst i towed it back.

Then have to take mate home so just use bosses defender which also runs out of lpg and then runs out of petrol but luckily i wasnt taking any chances and drained some 2stroke out of the motocross bike into a jerry can before we left so that wasnt too bad.
Then finally when we made it to the petrol station we got some very strange looks as it was halloween fancy dress at the site we went to so seeing 2 blokes in dirty camo's with faces painted like zombies on the forecourt was viewed as generally out of the norm :D

[darksidedsam]

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Buy one of those long bags for fishing rods.

I have one upstairs. Just be a pain if ive gotta cycle to a site wouldnt it?
Lol, Depends how stable you are on a bike.
Its always the chavs that go past you, riding a pushbike (i say A as they might have nicked it! ) backwards, with no hands. Maybe they could join the circus? lol

[Counting Count]

Re: what's the weirdest thing to happen to you on the way or from a game?

How about walking into a well known Petrol station chain in Bradford on a Sunday evening in full Desert DPM, I sear I've never seen a member of the Public in Bradford become so helpful so quick...

The other was again in Morrison's in Bradford one Game Day lunchtime (we normally get Morrison's pie counter to do the catering), DPM shirt, Dessie DPM Windprrofs, old stable belt, the Club chairman mentioned we got served quick...

Mind that was in Bradford where anything can happen...