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Once was in a FLGS that had some biblethumper come in and damn us all to hell. He had to be removed by the police.

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we have an old women in the area of my GW who yells things like "God is with us", Thrust in Him" "He sees all" and such all the time.

Yeh the storys about bible crazys are really funney .

Yeah they actually think we're all gonna go to hell or something because we're "nerds" or whatever..


-ed: Oh, and the weirdest thing that's happened to me was at a GW one time about 4 years ago, a short while after I'd gotten into the hobby. I was in the GW, and these two people are looking around. I suggest they get the starter set (4th ed baby!) and the redshirt started to have a go at me. "What, you don't want me to try get you £40? Really? Well, why didn't you say so when you made me buy that crappy set a few months ago? "

no, 'our' crazy catholic women stands on the most crowded places of Antwerp, just shouting.

agnosto wrote:Somebody was shot at the McDonalds across the street one evening.

at my FLGS someone got a hit a run by a car when they tried to get inside the store to get out from the heavy rain. at the same time a space marine sarge failed his tank shock and death or glory rules by ones and got smashed by a chaos land raider on one table. the guys at the table were scared sh*tless.

Lt. Coldfire wrote:

Blarglord wrote:Our FLGS has these ceiling fans running. I was having a bad game with my orks. (really bad dice rolls, etc.). I was rolling for a warboss on his last legs with a power klaw. This roll could win the combat and turn the tide. Been rolling crap with this guy all day. I roll my attacks, two hits. I roll the two to wound, as I roll the dice I shout "Do something you son of a b*tch!!" as I finished the last word there was a loud crack and sparks flew out of the ceiling fan above us. I look down and rolled two ones. That ceiling fan has not worked since.

lol wow this was awesome. I wish I was there.

OH MY GOD. Your sig is the most amazing thing I've ever seen.

Oh, and this kid managed to pull the entire paint rack on the floor. At least 20 paints spilled all over the floor. Very sad. They had to take a bunch off the rack.

I wasn't looking when it was happening, but I think he either got pissed off or he got the rack caught on his sleeve. Dunno. It sucked though.

There was a guy who came into my FLGS and set up his tyranid army on a vacant table about 30mins before close every sunday for a month. He wouldn't say anything to anyone just come in setup his army then sit and read his codex. When the owner would come to the back and give the 10min warning he would just pack up and leave. The last time i tried to compliment his paint job (fairly decent 7/10) he didn't even acknowledge i was talking to him so i shrugged and went back to my game. I haven't seen him in since but he must have come in atleast 6-7 times on sunday 30mins before close everytime...

Tread'Ead wrote:There was a guy who came into my FLGS and set up his tyranid army on a vacant table about 30mins before close every sunday for a month. He wouldn't say anything to anyone just come in setup his army then sit and read his codex. When the owner would come to the back and give the 10min warning he would just pack up and leave. The last time i tried to compliment his paint job (fairly decent 7/10) he didn't even acknowledge i was talking to him so i shrugged and went back to my game. I haven't seen him in since but he must have come in atleast 6-7 times on sunday 30mins before close everytime...

Maybe he just wanted to relax someplace? GWs have that "feel" to them, y'know what I mean? And 30mins before closing on sunday, I wouldn't expect it to be particularly busy..

I wish something weird happened around my GW again. It has been a long while ago.

One time, I was sitting in GW painting and this really dumb kid (kid meaning about 16-18ish...old enough that he should have picked up a bit of knowledge of the world around him) came in showing a bit of interest in what was going on, so naturally the black shirt gave him the intro spiel.

After asking a bunch of questions about the background of Marines and Orks he then - completely seriously - asked, "So like, this gak's really out there in space and gak? That's fething crazy!"

Scrazza wrote:^
we have an old women in the area of my GW who yells things like "God is with us", Thrust in Him" "He sees all" and such all the time.

Funniest typo ever, and sigged.

The local GW shop I head to (voorhees) is smack between a tanning salon and a hair cuttery. To me this became my typical hang out as I lived in the apartment complex right behind the store, in the apartment building literally 30 feet away. It was hysterical because I could get off the train, walk home, stop by the store (on the route home) ask if someone's looking for a game, and say i'll be back in 5 minutes, and actually be back in 5 minutes..

Back to the important part, so the tanning salon/ hair cutter are in a nice area, so its not just teenie boppers, there are some nice 20-30 year old females coming in. Day 4 of the shop i'm hanging out after work when a pack of bikini'd women pop in asking for a test game. The funniest part... the entire store minus the manager, the gw re-shirt in the days they could have them, myself and my buddy SCATTERED like ants. They ran, out the door, someone ran to the bathroom... it was like someone bug bombed for dorks! Now i'll admit, i'm a fellow dork, gamer, etc, but come on, at least hang out and watch the fun of the questions ..
"whats a bolter?"
"do they actually shot anything"
"its called a squig? that's so cute"

Guy comes into the store. Trades in close to $200 worth of games for store credit, is looking around and spies the Cthulhu Dice.

"This stuff is evil, you know." He wants us to not to restock it.

But he's going to buy it. ALL of it. Two copies of Cthulhu Munchkin, twelve of the Cthulhu Dice, a couple of the Cthulhu Plushes. Buys them and walks out.

When the star wars trilogy was coming out episodes 1,2,3 my brother and I were in a gamestore that was having a magic the gathering tournament. We were trying to by minis and the clerk was ringing us up and asked if we had seen the latest one. My brother replied, "Star Wars Sucks" a little too loudly and the whole store went deathly silent for five minutes. 20+ people just stopped talking like he had just called someone out to fight or something. LOL

Gavo wrote:Well,, I would say this:


Pretty funny. Even thought the table is rough, the chances of this happening is so low...

It was in the days before digital cameras, so on pics im afraid, but I once rolled a d6 which landed on its corner!!! And we we playing on a typically lame 80's green painted plain board, no texture whatsoever... Erk!!!

^ It is more common than you think. Before the summer hols, I think it musta happened about once or maybe twice every month or so. Infact I think it happened twice to me, using the GW battlemat on the floor, in the same week.

"Is that cocked?"

Yeah, given how many dice we chuck about it does occur quite often. But on the corner of a die, not the edge? And rolled on a smooth wooden board?

On a textured, flocked, grassed, mat etc it is far more common. We even spent the next however long trying to place and balance dice on thier corners to see just how freaky it was! Nobody could do it...

Orki wrote:Yeah, given how many dice we chuck about it does occur quite often. But on the corner of a die, not the edge? And rolled on a smooth wooden board?

On a textured, flocked, grassed, mat etc it is far more common. We even spent the next however long trying to place and balance dice on thier corners to see just how freaky it was! Nobody could do it...

Yes, on a corner. Dead serious, on flat surfaces.

I've also had it occur on my board I made, which has about the roughest texture imaginable.. gah, the amount of models that fall over on it..

Also, it has happened on my textured board more than on the clear, flat surfaced battlemat - WHICH IS NOT CREASE FREE! DO NOT LISTEN TO THE FALSE WHISPERS OF THE CHAOS GODS..GAMES WORKSHOP..whatever, same thing..

Not a gaming story but a day or two ago my brother was flipping a coin and came up heads 9 times in a row, the next one landed on it's edge, then a heads again before he stopped. Stopped me playing the piano to tell me about it.

This one time, at band camp...

It had been 2 years sence I was in a GW. happened to find one in a mall with my girl friend of the time. After speaking with a GW employee for about 10min about space marines and seeing what had changed I left and my girl friend yelled at me because the GW guy was hitting on me and I didnt notice.

I was in a tournament at Millenium Games in Rochestor, when a homeless dude in full leather with a backpack walks in. When I mean walk, he's basically marching "at attention" everywhere he goes. He starts picking up books, looking in them, and blatantly carrying on conversations with himself.

I moved my models (and myself) away from him in fear he was going to pull out a tommygun and just go nuts on the 40 or so people there. Turns out he's a regular at the shop. Just comes in, gets his crazy on, looks at a few books, and leaves.

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another weird dude. Our hobby seems to attract them.

Weird people attract weird people.


Jk, we're not weird (well.. some of us aren't at least.. this thread and those like it suggest otherwise. ).

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I know I am not weird...who stole my underpants?

snurl wrote:A girl walked in (strange enough under the circumstances) and pulled up her shirt to show us her new Aztec Sundial Tatoo. We were speechless.

Scoretasm!

Years back I was playing with my Khorne Demons in Charlottesville, VA, before there was a Cemons or plastic bloodletters. The army was entirely unpainted, just 60 metal bloodletters and their metal demon prince leader. I had just gotten through apologizing for not even having primed models, when my opponent's mom came in and commented about how nice all the little metal goat men looked, so clean and shiny. I fought back the urge to high five her and vowed to never paint the army

(It's now under commission, but I'm technically not painting it!)

- Salvage

Happened a fairly long time ago at my flgs. The store was in a fairly large shopping centre right underneath where the cinemas were.

When the 4th edition 40k rulebook was released, they had devoted the back cover of the White Dwarf with a big hammer and shield and a date it was to be released on. around 3pm, a guy ran into the store fuming with rage. When the red shirts asked him what was wrong, he started abusing the cinemas for not playing the new 40k movie. It took a fair bit of convincing to tell him the rules came out and not a film. He turned bright red with embarrassment and quietly left the store. The staff members and regulars had a big laugh and a huge smile on their faces for the rest of that day.

I once rolled a 7 on a D6, it was one of those big plastic D6's that you get out of the quarter machines, well they have a habit of breaking in half if you ever actually use them. If your lucky when they break in half both the 3 side and the 4 side will be face up.

A few weeks ago I'm playing a game at my FLGS and several Jehovah's witnesses walk into the store and start handing out phamplets. From the back of the store one of the regulars yells, Blood for the Blood God and runs out of the back room with a foam battle axe. I've never seen anyone exit the store that quickly.

The store I normally play in is located next to a Nail Salon, ocassionaly people use the wrong door. Its always a woman that does this. They always give us a weird look and leave quickly. Ocasionally they will stick around and see whats going on, I have a theory about how most people think the stuff we play with is pretty cool but are to embaressed at the thought of being labeled as a geek to actually play.

Last Halloween the same store was running a Cthulhu live game, we were useing airsoft hand guns to represent real guns. Combat was called, someone walking by saw a bunch of people pointing guns at some poor guy and called the police on us. The cool thing was that several of the officers that showed up actually stayed around and played the game with us. Now we have curtains that we put up in the front of the store so no one can see in.

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now that is an awesome weird thing.

Last Halloween the same store was running a Cthulhu live game, we were useing airsoft hand guns to represent real guns. Combat was called, someone walking by saw a bunch of people pointing guns at some poor guy and called the police on us. The cool thing was that several of the officers that showed up actually stayed around and played the game with us. Now we have curtains that we put up in the front of the store so no one can see in.

That is really cool.