Originally Posted by
Top_Gunn
The only question that matters is whether paintball shootdowns are unreasonably dangerous. The ones I've participated in aren't, and I've never seen any evidence to the contrary. Certainly a picture in Model Aviation of a crashed plane is not evidence of any such thing.
My problem isn't with the event, its with the size of the planes used ... if your participating in safe ones awesome.. show me where they are and I'll come join you. All I'm pointing out is .. the bigger the planes the more towards "unreasonably dangerous" the event becomes....You aren't going to hurt anybody if you shoot down a crack yak...
Sure, the planes will sometimes crash. But that doesn't mean they are likely to hit spectators.
simply baffled ... you can argue either way on this with the same logic... the fact of the matter is you simply don't know and have no way of knowing until the planes hit the ground
The fact that people are intentionally trying to hit a plane is irrelevant, because it doesn't make the activity unreasonably dangerous.
people trying to hit a plane intentionally increases the likelihood of an uncontrolled crash...
You concede this yourself when you say it's OK to do this with foamies. Car companies crash cars with dummies in them every day. Should they stop because these crashes are "intentional"?
When they start crashing cars on main street with spectators and people in the crosswalks I'll say something, until then while it is still in a controlled environment with everyone behind protective glass I'm ok with them doing it
If you don't want to do this sort of thing, by all means don't. But please don't tell me I shouldn't do it unless you can come up with some sort of evidence. Saying "definitely" is not evidence.
Like I said before, I think it could be a great idea or a terrible one, it all depends on the execution and the people behind it.