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Woot 300th post.

As for model molestation, last thursday at a FLGS, some my buddy came in with his girlfriend who is a model and I touched her boob.

Just kidding, my buddy came in with is models and some douche triped him and he crushed them all under his girth.

Oops duble post.

Had it happen a few times. I especially remember one episode: I was around 12-13, I guess, and had just finished a Goblin Shaman and was showing it to the guys at my local club. People pass it around very carefully, until the last guy says 'Whoops' and it falls 2 feet onto the pingpong table, where it tumbles sideways followed by another 'Whoops, and another 2 foot drop onto the concrete floor. IIRC I was close to tears...

A positive story:
A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that my 1,5 year old son was way too quiet. I found him sitting on the floor in my hobby room (his mom had forgotten to close the door) staring at a bunch of Marauder dwarfs that weren't varnished. I just stood watching him, waiting to see what happened next. He stood up and very, very carefully picked another one from my painting desk with his index and thumb, and placed it next to the others on the floor and sat down again and just looked at them...

I dont play very often but do have 3 young children. Generally thier pretty good about touching the various models I have in the playroom (plus they don't tend to get allowed down there on thier own very much) however there has been the old minor incident - most recently the middle child (3) filled some of my pallet with glue and proceeded to paint some of the WIP using a selection of my best brushed.

My first reaction now if something like that happens is to head straight for the missus and demand that she "does something with her children NOW!" - disciplining youngsters is best not done when boiling white mad!!

@Sp0n: It has BEGUN!!!

'It' is hopefully a healthy interest in a good hobby

Sp0n wrote:'It' is hopefully a healthy interest in a good hobby

If its anything like mine, he will spend all of his allowance on models. then when that doesnt quench his thirst to hobby he will get a paper route to buy moar, after thats not enough a job in fast food with yet moar models within his ability to purchase and your basement will be filled with all the unused bitz and sprues.

And you will have created this monster with an army so large he cannot even feild 90% of it in a game and all who hear his name dispair.

Sad stories. Who are these molesters and where do they live? *loads shotgun*

A few months ago a kid in a FLGS started picking up my squad of terminators in pairs and just dropping them down, I calmly talked to the mother but when she tried to scold the child he picked up my tank and started to hit it on the side of the table in a fit. The mother was very nice and offered to compensate me. She came to my place through the week and I got my compensation...The little brat deserved it!

Tarondor wrote:A few months ago a kid in a FLGS started picking up my squad of terminators in pairs and just dropping them down, I calmly talked to the mother but when she tried to scold the child he picked up my tank and started to hit it on the side of the table in a fit. The mother was very nice and offered to compensate me. She came to my place through the week and I got my compensation...The little brat deserved it!

You've won the thread sir, bravo.

Well, after lurking in this thread for a couple weeks, I've finally remembered one!

A couple of winters ago my friend came over for a game and on his way into the house he slipped on some ice, sending the box of orcs and goblins he was carrying flying into the snow. We managed to recover most of them, but a few weren't found until the snow melted a few months later...

If it had been Spehz Puppehz or Valhallans, you wouldn't of had to worry.
"Meh, they've been through worse."

Tarondor wrote:A few months ago a kid in a FLGS started picking up my squad of terminators in pairs and just dropping them down, I calmly talked to the mother but when she tried to scold the child he picked up my tank and started to hit it on the side of the table in a fit. The mother was very nice and offered to compensate me. She came to my place through the week and I got my compensation...The little brat deserved it!

This post has potential...

Tarondor wrote:A few months ago a kid in a FLGS started picking up my squad of terminators in pairs and just dropping them down, I calmly talked to the mother but when she tried to scold the child he picked up my tank and started to hit it on the side of the table in a fit. The mother was very nice and offered to compensate me. She came to my place through the week and I got my compensation...The little brat deserved it!

Soooo many coments and soooo little time

I'd say. Was it intentionally wrote that way or is it missing a "Giggity Giggity" somewhere?

"Dear White Dwarf,
I never believed the stories I readin your pages, until the following happened to me..."

Go on...

And these stories are why, whenever I enter a store with my kids I remind them "Look with your eyes, not your hands" No problems so far!

We have a friend in our gaming group that is rather large. One of the guys was playing and had the FW Bloodthurster on the edge of the board. The wings are so large that they hung off the board. Our large friend was leaning down over the board and his gut was rubbing up against the wings. All I heard was, "Dave, the thurster. Dave, the thurster!" He caught himself befor it fell off the board but it was close.

The other one was at a friends house and his sisters 3 year old came running in and his grubby power fist like hand shot into my box where I had my devilfish. In a vice like grip snatched the fish up and was about to throw it. I yelled, "NO! Put it down!" in my loudest traffic control cop voice. The kid put it down staring at me like I had a gun pointed at him. My wife wonders why I don't like kids. Small, smelly and expensive.

Tarondor wrote:A few months ago a kid in a FLGS started picking up my squad of terminators in pairs and just dropping them down, I calmly talked to the mother but when she tried to scold the child he picked up my tank and started to hit it on the side of the table in a fit. The mother was very nice and offered to compensate me. She came to my place through the week and I got my compensation...The little brat deserved it!

Sounds like a letter to Hustler magazine:

"Dear Hustler,

I never believed it would happen to me...."

When I was an investigator at Fort Bragg, I remember showing up to a house on a domestic. A soldier and his wife were having an agruement. I wasn't called into do the investigation but to give the first responders an idea on how much the eldar stuff she broke. I sware when I walked in the front door there was what was left of a warwalker stuck three inches into the dry wall. 4K of eldar was smashed, and what will always remember was the wife yelling at her husband, "Why don't you stick these toys up your ! At least something getting lucky in here! child! I can't believe it, toys before !"


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Now that is what I call a sad dedication to the hobby.

Ive known people who pass up sex for WoW raids. But passing it up to paint a model is just plain stupid you can go back to painting afterwards.

ManwithIronHands wrote:Ive known people who pass up sex for WoW raids. But passing it up to paint a model is just plain stupid you can go back to painting afterwards.

Really? FOR A WoW RAID?!? THE FETH MAN?! That is bloody awful... Im a WoW player at a fairly extreme level but... but... just wow...

Haha... WoW....wow... so simaler it almost seems wrong to say wow now...

Pipboy101 wrote:When I was an investigator at Fort Bragg, I remember showing up to a house on a domestic. A soldier and his wife were having an agruement. I wasn't called into do the investigation but to give the first responders an idea on how much the eldar stuff she broke. I sware when I walked in the front door there was what was left of a warwalker stuck three inches into the dry wall. 4K of eldar was smashed, and what will always remember was the wife yelling at her husband, "Why don't you stick these toys up your ! At least something getting lucky in here! child! I can't believe it, toys before !"


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Now that is what I call a sad dedication to the hobby.

Indeed, that is sad, in fact the only acceptable reason for me or my friends to miss a game is for a girl. I love playing with my overpriced toys, but boobs, boobs trump gaming =D


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ManwithIronHands wrote:Ive known people who pass up sex for WoW raids. But passing it up to paint a model is just plain stupid you can go back to painting afterwards.

Your logic is sound AND amusing my good man!

Neconilis wrote:Indeed, that is sad, in fact the only acceptable reason for me or my friends to miss a game is for a girl. I love playing with my overpriced toys, but boobs, boobs trump gaming =D

I wish there was a way to combine the 2. Boobs and gaming FTW. Maby like a gaming night at the local gentleman's club or a stripper at a gaming club night.

That could open alot of model molestation stories right there.

Now to get this thread back on topic,

About 4 years ago, this guy at a FGS ahd this very very well painted falcon grav tank, like golden deamon worthy, He was planning on entering it, why he would brign it to a FGS I dont know. Anyway some punk came in with an airsoft gun and sprayed the store, breaking display cases models peoples models on the table terrain and at least one persons glasses. After the guy left and police were called we took survey of the damage. the terrain on the gaming tables was totaled, most of the models on it were smashed to bits, and this wonderful grav tank was now in component parts and full of dents and holes whre the bbs hit.

The stores security cams caught the kids face and he was caught a few days later, he caused about 4000$ in damage to models, display cases, and personal damages.

I am a teen, but I really get what your saying. Once a kid was looking at my 400+ points of painted menoth, and I turn around for a minute, when I turn back around all, I mean ALL the paint was gone!!! His mom did absolutly nothing! I was SOOO angry, I was MANGRY!

Then again I was also amazed that the kid stripped all the paint!

Captain Shrike wrote:I am a teen, but I really get what your saying. Once a kid was looking at my 400+ points of painted menoth, and I turn around for a minute, when I turn back around all, I mean ALL the paint was gone!!! His mom did absolutly nothing! I was SOOO angry, I was MANGRY!

Then again I was also amazed that the kid stripped all the paint!

Wait.... how???

ManwithIronHands wrote:I wish there was a way to combine the 2. Boobs and gaming FTW. Maby like a gaming night at the local gentleman's club or a stripper at a gaming club night.

Ohh but there is...... http://media.photobucket.com/image/orc%20cheerleader/marion15/bb2_orc_cheer1.jpg

D..d..d..DISTURBING!

Tarondor wrote:A few months ago a kid in a FLGS started picking up my squad of terminators in pairs and just dropping them down, I calmly talked to the mother but when she tried to scold the child he picked up my tank and started to hit it on the side of the table in a fit. The mother was very nice and offered to compensate me. She came to my place through the week and I got my compensation...The little brat deserved it!

Dude, did she come 'round and cook snacks for your gaming group?

AWESOME.

I field the proverbial Dark Eldar Parking Lot O' Doom and used (operative word here) to keep them on a bookshelf. Came home from work one day to be met at the door by my wife who was holding a 6 pack of beer in one hand. Unfortunately in her other hand was a box filled with what used to be my skimmer fleet. Seems the cats decided to play on the bookshelf that day and knocked every one of them to the floor. It was not a pretty sight.