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when i was at my FLGS this 30 something guy walks in with his kid and starts to chat to the manager. his kid got one of the store's stompas and baneblades (the stompa was his pride and joy) and starts bashing them together, making "kapow!" noises! i took them off him, bent down to his height and whispered:'if you break them daddy will be very cross and you'll get no pocket money 'til you're my age.' the kid frowned, folded his arms and ran straight back to his dad, who was just leaving with a space marine codex.

P.S: no one noticed

Bravo, you handled that very well.

twistinthunder wrote:^ that the best thing ive ever heard! lol. isn't it technically criminal damage that now unwelcomed kid commited.

My guess would be to say that it's no more considered that than, say, purposefully defacing a hand painted model.


Eric

@Metalifan: 'Twas a tale of terrible acts, yet most duly did the naive find his just deserts!

@shrike: Verily did though vanquish villanous vandalous visions from the vile victim of vice!

Sorry...

Ok a little history first. at the time i was working in childcare.

So went to my first gamesday and was at one of the tables, space marines vs tyranids. and of course there is an annoying kid about 10. he goes through half of the game being overly dramatic about killing off nids. That was fine but then he started to grab and throw them across the table at us. I could see the GW guy who was the owner flinch everytime. It was obvious he wasn't allowed to correct this kid so i chimmed in. As the kid went to grab the 5th model I grabed his arm first and said enough your behavior is inapropreate. of course I get the 'your not my mom'. I look at him and said "where is she, untill we talk to her your banned from the board". he walked off and i got resounding cheers from the 5 other players and the GW guys both gave me thanks for protecting thier models. mommy showed up angry, 7 of us told her about her son's behavior, I thought the kid was going to get spanked right there. she says 'we're going home and your grounded'...good for that mom.

I made game counters by gluing thin cardboard to metal disks then primering and painting them. I spent some time creating dynamic designs covering the effects or wounds, pinning, failed leadership test, vehicle damage results. The end product was 20 double-sided counters with detailed designs that had the haft and weight of a quarter.

I was playing a four-player game and my partner is engaging in a seemly ceaseless amount of smack talk against our two opponents. I keep telling him to knock it off, which buys about 3 minutes of peace until he starts again. Well, I perform some tactic that gives my partner and I some advantage and he begins taunting again, but to the Nth power and he proceeds to grab up a handful of my counters and one by one began whipping them at our opponents.

My attention is focused on the board so I only grasp what he his doing after he has tossed three of my counters. I snap at him and told him go retrieve the counters he had thrown and not to come back to the table until he retrieve them all – if need be he will lose his movement phase and I will dictate the firing and rolling for his models. My opponents display a grateful affect and nod approvingly at me. He spent less then 15 minutes and came back with two. I accepted the lost as he seemed reasonably defused and we played out the rest of the game with a minimum amount of sassing.

Wow, many badarse kids around. In my local GW it`s not like that at all:

Red-Shirt: "Hi, what are you painting?"
9 year old: "A valkyrie for my guards."
RS: "Have you tried washing it?"
9: "No, i want a light-green fresh look thank you."
RS: "But it gets shades and contrast like the big boys paint it."
9: "No thanks! I want it light!"
RS: "Here, i`ll show you!"
Then he picked up a really nice painted Cadian (the 9 year old`s), and started painting ridicilous amounts of badab black on it. The kid just packed up and left with his 4000pts Apoc. army.
Poor guy

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