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Have you ever been in a GamesWorkshop and someone do something that made you want to to scream out "NO WAY YOU JUST DID THAT?"

For instance I was in GW Brighton and these 2 kids came they must of been about 13-15 years old and they tried to steal some model cases the really big ones on a day that the store was packed to the gills.

what expirences have you had someone making up a ridiculous rule or trying to steal something share your expirences.

So I was in GW and someone was using two Land Raiders filled with Terminators. I was like: no way anyone in a GW is using a semi-competitive list. They were horribly mix and matched (Redeemer and Godhammer) which is to be expected, but it still blew me away.

my gw is siuated in a major shopping center, swarmed with nutters.
in three years thee has been six (i think) large fights at the door

Yesterday someone at my FLGS canceled her preorder of some new board game, then put in a new preorder for the very same game.

I went to the local GW today to buy the new Nid codex and the staff were polite, friendly and helpful without being clingy or pushy.

LoLcAtMaN wrote:Have you ever been in a GamesWorkshop and someone do something that made you want to to scream out "NO WAY YOU JUST DID THAT?"

For instance I was in GW Brighton and these 2 kids came they must of been about 13-15 years old and they tried to steal some model cases the really big ones on a day that the store was packed to the gills.

what expirences have you had someone making up a ridiculous rule or trying to steal something share your expirences.

WoW, those kids might have a little slow in them.

I was at a GW in the old Ontario Mills mall and a huge gang fight broke out in front of the store.

Cheers

I was browsing the front of a local GW when a womens dog outside ran up and tried to bite me.

No, I'm not making this up .

I once saw a 14 year-old shoplifter get busted at my FLGS. He went all to pieces when they called the cops... begging them to let him go and saying he was sorry and whatnot. He tried to make a break for it, but didn't make it out the door.

At the same store, a BIG guy passed out and it literally shook the store when he hit the ground.

One day I was standing around chatting at my FLGS, at their previous location when the Fedex truck came careening around the corner and ran into the building. The drive stomped in and practically dared any of us to say anything about it. We burst out laughing, he turned red and refused to bring the order into the store. He just dropped it out the back of the truck and roared off without waiting from the owner to report the accident or anything.

A homeless man who lurks the area around my flgs came in and attacked a customer with a screwdriver.

Some kid (12-14) knocked over a Valkyrie, owned by a long time hobbyist.

During an Apocalypse game.

Oh was he mad

Wow, ok, having worked for GW, I have many:

One, this guy comes in, sketchy looking dude in our mall GW, and asks us if we sell bone dice. I go "yeah we have some bone colored dice" "No No, I want dice MADE out of bones, preferrably human, do you have those?"

Two, we had at Christmas time once had these 'Grannies against War Toys' come up in front of our store and sing a christmas song, until I heard the lyrics (tune of silent night).. they were basically protesting our store because we sold non peaceful toys.

Three, we had this one kid who shoplifted from us, so we banned him from the store. He was a good kid actually, kinda surprising, he came in pretty regularly. Next event saturday, he shows up, expecting to be able to play.. few weeks go by, I happen to be off but at our other city's GW store, and there he is, so I had to ban him from that store too. All for a blister pack of freaking Eldar Aspect Warriors.. but man, ballsy for him to try and keep coming back, like stealing from us is fine and we'll let it slide.

lastly, we had this one guy come in for a demo game of fantasy (the old one with empire vs orcs) and I didnt give the demo, but was working when this happened.. the guy loses the demo, mostly because he didnt take the mgr's advice, and then demand a rematch.. of course, you only get the one, and the mgr was being nice about it, and then it got real creepy.. anyhoo, i was painting so he leaves. Next morning, I open, and right away get a phone call from my mgr, saying mall security called him at 3 am, seeing if one of our staff members could be let into the store.. it was this guy from the demo game. So Mgr is telling about this, and im like "dude stfu, youre just yanking my chain here" which is something he would do.. and then who do I see sitting in front of the store, waiting for me to open?? Demo guy... I tell my mgr, "gak man, you were right, hes here right now" so he thinks IM joking... I tell him, IM hanging up to call security, see ya.

Turns out this guy who was kinda unhinged but otherwise looked like a normal nerdy 20 year old, all he wanted to do was come in at 3 am, and read up the rules, and then BEAT the mgr in another demo. I asked him through the window (still before open) Hey man, just so you know "Mgr name" is off for the next week, you know in case you were here to talk to him.. he was then banned by security from the mall. But yeah.. creepy Demo Game stalker....

As a Battletech Demo Guy I get old (45+ years old) players trying to weasel rules into games that are 20 years old and no longer used in that way, just to win a game against some 15 year old kid.

I had to catch a friend of mine when he had a seizure right between 2 tables of a MegaBattle. That was a close call, both for him, and the thousands of dollars worth of minis and terrain on the two tables. I also had the term "dead weight" very efficiently defined when trying to guide him safely to the ground.

I saw a 12 year old kid painting a FW Bloodthirster, you know, the 10" high one, in pink. That was so lame.

I arranged a trade at my flgs with a younger player. My small but usable tau army for his forgeworld valk. (This was a few months after tau came out.)

He zips home to get it and to my surprise brings back a partially built model held together with hot glue of all things.

He told me he didnt like it anyway since the wings were 'floppy'.

lords2001 wrote:I saw a 12 year old kid painting a FW Bloodthirster, you know, the 10" high one, in pink. That was so lame.

No...that is awsome, and the kid should be given a freakin' medal .

FreekyE wrote:I arranged a trade at my flgs with a younger player. My small but usable tau army for his forgeworld valk. (This was a few months after tau came out.)

He zips home to get it and to my surprise brings back a partially built model held together with hot glue of all things.

Well, that's not so horrible. At least you could probably disassemble it without any issues.

One of the funiest things I ever saw was a woman who marched into my local GW demanding to see the manager. She proceeds to scream at him for selling her 10 year old a violent computer game, he tried to explain she must have the wrong shop, but she then accuses him of lying and says he saw her coming and hid the video games out the back. It wasn't until he took her outside and showed her the name of the shop and the name on the top of her reciept that she realised what a fool she had made of herself and stormed off looking rather red faced

The other was a guy who took a part time job in my local GW, whilst studying art at uni, he didn't know any of the games, and spent most of his time trying to convince new customers to go away and take up painting on canvass instead. He lasted about 5 days. The final straw was when he painted a batch of glade riders on pink and purple horses. When it came to handing back his uniform he launched into a bizarre tirede about the evils of wargaming and that we would all end up as drug addicts

Kilkrazy wrote:I went to the local GW today to buy the new Nid codex and the staff were polite, friendly and helpful without being clingy or pushy.

Not that unusual over here, just another day. Also I don't really have anything to add to this besides that they get the occassional call about if they have any Wiis.

Maybe I'm just lucky and seem to avoid all the crazy people, except that one guy that tried to convince me that the entire world was simply an illusion of the mind and that nothing truely exists except what we want to perceive through our mind or something like that. He knocked on a tree a few times and said it wasn't real and then said that if we stopped believing in "facts" you could pass straight through the tree as if it were air. But, this happened one day on my way home from my IT course, so, nowhere near any GW or wargaming.

At a former GW store before it moved, I assisted in catching a high school student stealing from the store. I noticed he would bring in a old Landraider box and fill to to the brime with 40K stuff. I'm not sure anyone would have notice but of all things he was stealing Pendant Engines. Its not like there are mad rushes on these. He eventually brought these in, and explained he bought them in the shop. Easy catch: we didn't have any sister of battle/ witch hunter players in the shop EVER minus the manager. A creative lie could have been: i bought them somewhere else, nope, he was just dumb.

Gamesday Baltimore 2K RT event. I'm playing a Dwarf player, and the whole time i'm thinking "man his army is pretty big for a 2K event." I'm using my skaven, placed 3rd that year. The game ends in a minor win for me. I realize as I add the list up the models aren't represented. So I play dumb and ask to look at his copy: they were different. He was using 2250 in a 2K event. I take it to the organizers after round 1 response~ if we didn't catch it it couldn't have been that bad... priceless.

n0t_u wrote:

Not that unusual over here, just another day. Also I don't really have anything to add to this besides that they get the occassional call about if they have any Wiis.

snap lol

n0t_u wrote:
Maybe I'm just lucky and seem to avoid all the crazy people, except that one guy that tried to convince me that the entire world was simply an illusion of the mind and that nothing truely exists except what we want to perceive through our mind or something like that. He knocked on a tree a few times and said it wasn't real and then said that if we stopped believing in "facts" you could pass straight through the tree as if it were air. But, this happened one day on my way home from my IT course, so, nowhere near any GW or wargaming.

I once defeated the bbeg in dnd by convincing him he didn't exist.

I had to chase a drunk out of my store with the 'customer appreciation hammer' last week.

^you mean the banhammer?

wow GW Brighton has so many problems these days, when was this?

also if valkerie posts sorry for doubt you in that 'the nerve of some people...' thread (yeah he was right, but the manager was just joking)

We've got a guy at our FLGS who paints stuff to a simply STUNNING level of awesome. When he got bored of his Deathwing, he sold them to a local kid for I believe $500. I think it's consists of a Landraider, ~25 Terminators, plus a Dark Angle Pred and Devastator squad. The kid transports them all dumped into a small plastic container the size of a shoe box.

I was at a FLGS and a guy came up bought a $6.00 model with a 20 then 30minutes later tried to steal a $10.00 model....free pair of handcuffs with every arrest!

I have a friend who is an amazing painter he plays white scars and has a beautiful converted khan minature that he took litterally weeks to paint I wandered into our GW and he was playing a game, next thing I know he picks up the khan screams I hate you and chucks him into the wall. Apparently he couldn't roll anything but a 1 to wound the entire game. Poor Khan :(

dumplingman wrote:I have a friend who is an amazing painter he plays white scars and has a beautiful converted khan minature that he took litterally weeks to paint I wandered into our GW and he was playing a game, next thing I know he picks up the khan screams I hate you and chucks him into the wall. Apparently he couldn't roll anything but a 1 to wound the entire game. Poor Khan :(

I would never play against him ever again.

no no no it was his own khan!
and he is generally a nice guy but it was heartbreaking.

A SUPERHOT woman walked into a FLGS, I was in, one time.

I was like, "Did that just happen?"

GG