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Quick Story...
Headly, you're in Media? I have perhaps my worst paintball story ever from driving through Media. If you'll humor me to post it here, I'll be quick.
About 6 years ago (1998, I think), some firends of mine and I were just getting into the EMR scene (we're all from N. DE). As part or the Boneheads Big'n that year, we requested and recieved permission to build and bring a tank. I got an old Chevy Cavalier wagon from a local gas station for free. The old owner, Jasani Bahrat, ran it w/o oil and it was pretty toasted. Had maybe 1k miles left on it. We chopped the top off, put a turret on, made some other mods, gave it a ghettoflage paint job and did the whole works. It was named the "Bahrat Bandit" in honor if its former owner. The file is too big to attach whole, so the pic is just a thumbnail.
We trailered it and put it behind my Ford van. Well, I know I'm an engineer, but I screwed it up. I set the handbrake as habit when I parked the tank on the trailer. So when I tightened up the back chain, the car didn't roll and tighten up the front chains. We made it to Media when the whole thing started to vibrate like crazy. I looked in the mirror and the tank literally jumped off the trailer and came after us. It barrel-rolled passing us in the air, landed on its roof, flipped end-over-end 4 or 5 times, rolled side to side 4 or 5 more times, landed on its wheels, did doughnuts, landed again on its side and slid off the highway. It ended up about 100 yards in front of us. The van had a sizeable dent out of the left side with skid marks from where the car ramped up the side of the van.
It's sitting in some Media, PA junkyard now because we had to call the wrecker to come get it. The thing was toast. We showed up at EMR and everyone asked us where our tank was. I just said, "Well..."
Anyhow, next time I plan to go on up to EMR is for Quest two weeks before Castle Conquest. I should be bringing a horde of people for CC. Anybody that wants, send me PM or something and we'll get together for a beer or something if you're old enough. Anybody that's in the area and plays backyard ball with their friends and would like a few more players or something new, let me know. Lastly, any good renegade fields in the area? Delaware industrial park has pretty much been shut down and housing developments have taken over most of the northern DE places to play. Let me know if there's anything decent in the area still left if you know of one.
Thanks in advance and I hope to see some of you guys on a field soon!
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Before: "You're playing with WHAT?"
After: "Crap, it's that guy with the pump!"
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