i am not shocked that it happens, I just think its something i wouldn't do. Ah to have enough money to waste it on shooting women with paintballs for $5000 bucks. If i had that kind of money i wouldn't be doing that.

This is so disgusting. A man who would pay money and get a kick out of this is obviously a man with violent tendencies towards women. I definitely put part of the blame on the women who do this, but the fact that there is a demand for this sort of thing period is highly disturbing.

I nearly choked when I heard about this. You'd think that if prostitution is illegal (the girls may be degraded but at least they aren't getting SHOT!) then shouldn't this be as well? This amazes me, we (as society) are getting all huffy about women breast feeding in public, but naked women are running around the desert getting shot, and it's all ok. *sigh*

It looks like this may just be another Urban Legend (albeit, a fairly new one)

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/bambi.asp

For any of yall who say this "isn't that bad," you've got to be kidding me:

- woman is forced to get naked (i.e., woman is pretty much defenseless)
- man "hunts" her (i.e., he holds the power and the upper hand and gets some sort of pleasure, sexual or otherwise, out of injuring her)
- despite the fact that she gets hurt, woman still does it because she wants the money (i.e., she sticks with it because receives some sort of benefit from the man even though he hurts her)

It just strikes me as way too close to domestic abuse for comfort. It definitely strikes me as something that could encourage men to be abusive towards women and look down upon them as being nothing but naked T & A that's put there for them to do whatever they want to it. Like AZpinkkittie said, it's basically prostitution, but instead of selling their bodies for sex they're selling it for violence. And while sex isn't inherently bad, violence is -- which makes this way worse than prostitution in my book.

That kind of TV is very embarrassing, I agree completely. The premise is stupid -- why would guys who appear on paper to have game (Alex, Aaron and Andrew of the Bachelor in particular -- NOT Joe Millionaire or FLOM guy) go on TV to pull? :confused: :rolleyes: More importantly, why would the women choose to do that? Dunno.

Only thing I watch regularly is Sex and the City, along with TV sports.

Besides this being totally warped and alludes to snuff-like activities.....
 

Burdick says safety is a concern, but the women are not allowed to wear protective gear -- only tennis shoes.
So if you get hit in the eye and you're blinded, I guess it's "Whoopsie, too bad"? :rolleyes:

Burdick says hunters are told not to shoot the women above the chest, but he admits not all hunters follow the rules. ...
The paint balls that come out of the guns travel at about 200 miles-per-hour. Getting hit with one stings with clothes on, and when they hit bare flesh, they are powerful enough to draw blood.
Couldn't someone die from this? I've heard of kids in baseball games dying because the ball hit them square in the chest and it did a number on their heart (Yes, it's rare but it *has* happened). Wouldn't this also be possible from a 200 MPH paintball if it hit a woman square in the chest? (i.e. directly on top of her heart)
:rolleyes:

The Local News Station showed the tape last night on T.V. just Plain Stupid!:mad:

CNN did a piece on it yesterday. If it's not for real, some folks spent a lot of $ making it look like it was.

HMMMMMNN! Verrry interesting! I really wouldnt be suprised if it was just a big hoax. But then again I wouldnt be suprised if it was real. People need to find better ways to spend their money.

holy shit :eek: :(

What the? This could be a hoax???? I mean, on the one hand, I'd be very happy and relieved to know that this was not really happening...but on the other...what the hell is wrong with the media if they just broadcast something that's not true??? Don't they check facts???

Unfortunately, not always. Here's a quote from the Snopes site...

it's all too easy for hoaxsters to fool reporters with demonstrations staged for their benefit (as notorious prankster Joey Skaggs has demonstrated time and again). Reporting the sensational draws a far large audience than debunking it does, so rarely do reporters engage in the necessary legwork to separate lurid reality from manufactured hoax. (The media all too often operate under the naive assumption that a hoaxster, having gone to a great deal of trouble to create, stage, and perpetrate a hoax, will simply come clean and announce the whole thing is just a joke the first time someone questions him about it. Therefore, if a hoaxster insists his outlandish venture is legitimate, it must be real.)

Hmmmm....

I guess that would make it an urban rumor.

urban... gossip? hehe :D