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Was this marshal out of order ..... ?
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Me personally I would just leave it and put it down as an accident at that split moment in time the marshal might have thought he was helping. It hit you and you got quite blister and suffered a bit of damage to clothing it wasn't malicious. Clothing will get damaged when playing weather it be a rip etc.
Airsoft is about consent... to be recorded, to sustain injuries from BBs, or loud bangs, or falls etc ... I can't recall ever giving consent to burns - particularly due to the negligence of staff employed to make the environment safer.
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Personally, I'd be pissed off and I think a lot of folks are underestimating how they'd actually feel if their new kit was now useless, burnt and stained and they were burned themselves. Burns are some of the worst types of commonly experienced injuries to my mind, they just hurt for ages and take bloody forever to heal. If it's on your back and touches on chairs I can fully empathise with how that's going to just be a huge annoyance in life in general because the simple act of sitting down is now painful. I've had injuries like that before which made simple, basic everyday things unpleasant and painful and they really grind you down.
I don't know what type of pyro it was exactly, but most of the disposable airsoft smokes don't get that hot to my knowledge, whereas military ones get insanely fuckin hot and I've seen some horrendous burns from military pyro. Either way, in my mind I've developed a strong cautionary stance towards any device that creates smoke and despite what most folks do on youtube videos, when chucking any sort of grenade I launch the thing as quick as f****n possible once lit; absolutely none of this holding on to it for a second and shaking it around (I doubt it does anything to the pyrotechnic compound inside the grenade and this 'let the smoke build' argument makes zero sense... it puts out what it puts out, holding on to it for a moment is just wasting some of it if anything).
I don't know what type of pyro it was exactly, but most of the disposable airsoft smokes don't get that hot to my knowledge, whereas military ones get insanely fuckin hot and I've seen some horrendous burns from military pyro. Either way, in my mind I've developed a strong cautionary stance towards any device that creates smoke and despite what most folks do on youtube videos, when chucking any sort of grenade I launch the thing as quick as f****n possible once lit; absolutely none of this holding on to it for a second and shaking it around (I doubt it does anything to the pyrotechnic compound inside the grenade and this 'let the smoke build' argument makes zero sense... it puts out what it puts out, holding on to it for a moment is just wasting some of it if anything).
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I hope they acknowledge you, but I don't think they will replace the shirt.
If anything it's a lesson learnt to you, being new and the others around including the Marshall, that it's a bad idea to pick up a lit pyro.
If anything, a free game next weekend or whenever, would be what I'd expect.
If anything it's a lesson learnt to you, being new and the others around including the Marshall, that it's a bad idea to pick up a lit pyro.
If anything, a free game next weekend or whenever, would be what I'd expect.
Its got a couple of burn holes in it you can still wear it or put a plate carrier over the top of it. Yeah a burn hurts but it wasn't intentional it was an accident. Take it on the chin and crack on. I cut my leg on Sunday on a piece of reed bar stick a plaster on it and carry on I'm not going to complain about it or demand new trousers because they have a blood stain.
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Did you at least inform the staff for safety purposes?
I've known someone who imapaled their knee on rebar that had been left strewn around
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How you think those 2 examples are on a par, I honestly don't know, but each to their own. Either way, accidents to not absolve the culprit of responsibility, believe me I'd love it if that were the case in my work but if I f*ck up people will get hurt and quite possibly die, nobody in the court hearing will give 2 shits if it was an 'accident' or not; as an adult you're responsible for what you do, simple as that.
Marshals primary duty at a site is to ensure and monitor safety. Burning players kit (and worse, the player inside) is most definitely not in the job description. As a player you make 100% sure you look where you're chucking pyro (at least you should) and that applies even more so to staff on site.
If the OP chooses to 'take it on the chin' that's up to him, not for other people to tell him. If you personally would shrug it off then fine, that's your call, I'm saying personally I wouldn't.
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Someone crashed into me at a roundabout the other week. 100℅ accident she still paid for repairs and my hire car and I've got a claim for loss of earnings and personal injury. Point is doesn't matter if it was a accident the OP has damaged kit and suffered burns, He shouldn't take it on the chin. The smoke had landed and was then picked up which is against most site rules and then thrown wildly at the OP. New top and a few free games is the least the site should offer and the Marshall should be either removed or severely reprimanded.
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Fire is dangerous... Yes..
not the point, the point is that picking up a lit pyro wasn't a great idea...
And the Marshall clearly didn't know, as he picked it up..
He knows now for sure. And so did people around.
But, it always makes sense once you light it, your first thought is to get it out ya hands as quick as possible..
Well you wouldn't throw a reed bar at someone would you it's hardly the same thing. Pyro is thrown at games and when there is a lot going on or someone might chuck it like a girl it could hit someone. Or everyone could have a shit fit when they accidentally get hit by one and they ban the use of them altogether.
Did you leave the pyro sitting on your back for a while to do that much damage?
Did you leave the pyro sitting on your back for a while to do that much damage?
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If you've got any sense, you wouldn't re-throw lit pyro at all and certainly not at somebody. And just for future info it's Rebar, short for 'Reinforcing bar'; common misunderstanding though.
Nobody's having 'a sh*t fit', there have been no disproportionate responses to the incident suggested in this thread and suggesting pyro will be banned is a totally OTT and sensationalist. That's obviously not going to happen and it's a poor attempt to put down the opposite point of view via exaggeration.
I've also played airsoft with plenty of females who use lots of disposable pyro and they're better at launching it than I am. I hated cricket/baseball/softball in school because I cannot throw for toffee and I still can't; the skills I have in life do not include manual launching of missiles. Literally never been able to throw anything with any accuracy or distance. So the phrase should be 'like a ckinnerley' if anything.
Nobody's having 'a sh*t fit', there have been no disproportionate responses to the incident suggested in this thread and suggesting pyro will be banned is a totally OTT and sensationalist. That's obviously not going to happen and it's a poor attempt to put down the opposite point of view via exaggeration.
I've also played airsoft with plenty of females who use lots of disposable pyro and they're better at launching it than I am. I hated cricket/baseball/softball in school because I cannot throw for toffee and I still can't; the skills I have in life do not include manual launching of missiles. Literally never been able to throw anything with any accuracy or distance. So the phrase should be 'like a ckinnerley' if anything.
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Hah, I was just trying to be funny, rhetoric does not transfer on forums, so i thought italics might indicate something was up.
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