Team 538 Bonding time

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by JulieB

this year team 538 is going to play PAINT-BALL as a team bonding time

Because this year has been a little stressful
what you think going to happen??

Assuming you play on a supervised field with the proper safety equipment and rules enforcement....

You'll have a whole lot of fun!

Team 48 has been playing paintball for years now and the students, mentors, and alumni who have played have always had a good, fun time. We do this in the spring/summer months to help keep the team together during the robotics "offseason".

Time for a quick hypothetical lesson. Let's just assume for a minute that the pic up above of that guy with all those paintball bruises on his face isn't Photoshopped (the bruises are too uniform, and paintball bruises tend to be ring-shaped marks. He looks more like he was attacked by bees!) and that he was actually playing paintball (he looks like a skater d00d). Then that guy and every person he was playing with is an absolute moron for not taking the proper paintball safety precautions. The guy in the photo is an even bigger moron for implying that it's actually FUN to get shot in the face with 290 ft/s projectiles. Poof balls ain't got nothing on paintballs, folks. You wanna go blind? Act like that idiot.

If that amazingly turns out to be a genuine photo, then that is one of the most careless and downright insane exhibitions of idiocy I've ever observed from a human being. Ed, I'm wondering where you got that pic!

Safety on the paintball field and everywhere else is just as important as safety inside the shop and at a FIRST competition. Safety FIRST isn't just a concept that applies to robotics; it applies to everything you do in life.