Originally Posted by u-Bob

I used to play a lot of paintball. Well, at least 4 times a year. We used to play with more or less the same group of people and got to know the marshals pretty well. About 2 years ago, one of the marshals suggested we'd give airsoft a try and invited me and 3 friends to an open airsoft event.

Unlike paintball where most of the time there's a good indication that someone has been hit, airsoft purely relies on the honor system. Everyone is responsible for announcing that he's been hit. To my surprise this worked remarkably well (I was used to playing paintball where some people tend to just carry on if they don't see any paint when they get hit). There was however 1 small group of 5 people who were constantly causing trouble. They were caught cheating several times and always denied things... even when it was caught on video.

When one of my friends complained to one of the marshals we knew we, were told that those guys got some extra 'leeway' because they were cops. Later that day, when we were all eating our barbecue and most people had already had some beers, we overheard those 5 assholes bragging about things they had done recently. About how a couple of crates of champagne that had been stolen and they recovered never made it back to their rightful owner but ended up in their own trunk. About how one of them confiscated a ball from kids playing in the park "because the kids were too loud" and how his own kids now have " a new ball". And all 5 of them seemed to think that was all really funny.