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Teenage Paintballer Shot Dead by Farmer

Mary Papenfuss — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:03:00 CST

A teen paintballer was shot dead by an Indiana farmer who thought he was picking off a coyote. Brandon Spangler, 17, was struck as he was unloading paintball gear from a car with his three brothers and dad, whom he was visiting from Michigan for the holidays, police said. A...

Aussie School War Games Under Fire

Rob Quinn — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:41:35 CST

Australian parents are furious that efforts to stamp out school violence are being undercut by paint-balling companies who advertise schools as perfect weekend "killing fields." The head of a parents association in Queensland was "absolutely horrified" to see images of a high school overrun with adults and children firing realistic...

Activists Slime Whalers With Butter, Paintballs

Caroline Miller — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:25:00 CST

Conservationists chucked paintballs and rotten butter at Japanese whalers, while the whalers fired back with water canons in their latest pitched, if unconventional, naval battle in the Antarctic Ocean yesterday. No one was injured in the clash, the AP reports. Paintballs are a new weapon for the Sea Shepherd group,...

Paintball Chase Goes Awry in Houston

John Johnson — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:00:36 CST

Not your master criminals, these two. A pair of Houston-area men nearly drove their SUV straight through a house as they tried to elude an angry bar owner, the Houston Chronicle reports. What set this off? They had plastered the owner's truck with paintballs after getting bounced from his bar....