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[P7hk9]

Well, a few days after the VT massacre, and someone gets in trouble. Please pay particular attention to the third paragraph. This is why back-yard airsoft is a bad idea.

http://www.alligator.org/pt2/070420arrest.php


And a funny one for a change. I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/a...astic-pellets/

[SouthSideDiablo]

With the first one, how does that relate to backyard airsoft? I'm just wondering is all, becuase if he had been properly carrying it in a case, he would not have been arrested. And the second one is pretty cool. It seems people are always doing something cool with airsoft guns.

[P7hk9]

Originally Posted by SouthSideDiablo

With the first one, how does that relate to backyard airsoft? I'm just wondering is all, becuase if he had been properly carrying it in a case, he would not have been arrested.

You pretty much answered your own question. If nobody sees the gun, you can't get busted for aggravated assault. Playing airsoft in your back yard, or on non-sanctioned fields can get you charged with agg. assault. If someone sees it and is scared, you go to jail.

[getVicious]

I do STIX lanes with my dad who teaches ROTC at Lehigh University and we had RPG's Sniper rifle's and AK47's(all fake rubber duckies) walking up 309, then maybe 15-20 minutes later a police officer drove up to where we were hiding for the mission and gave us a ****ty attitude and at the exact moment his dispatch office informed that we had been cleared by LehighU for ROTC training.

[Pelti]

Originally Posted by deadtree

I do STIX lanes with my dad who teaches ROTC at Lehigh University and we had RPG's Sniper rifle's and AK47's(all fake rubber duckies) walking up 309, then maybe 15-20 minutes later a police officer drove up to where we were hiding for the mission and gave us a ****ty attitude and at the exact moment his dispatch office informed that we had been cleared by LehighU for ROTC training.

And the moral of this story is that even a 100% authorised and supervised scenario, with completely non-fireable replicas, can draw the attention of an ARMED police officer, who is doing his job and investigating a, as far as he knows, potentially dangerous situation. He could just as easily, given recent events, charged in pistol drawn, and this story could have been very different. The dispatcher may have called him off, but until that point, I can only assume the officer was doing his job investigating reports of an armed group of men.

This is why we do no not condone backyard airsoft. If you're in a backyard, there is no dispatcher to explain the situation. Just a frightened bystander who calls 911, and police officers who don't know what to expect.