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Oh he was. I was talking to a mate yesterday. He said they went into that store and his little brother was looking at chaos bikers even though he was a marine player. When he asked "hey mate what army are you playing?" and his brother replied "space marines" he proceeded to hit him on the head with a tank brush while saying " these are chaos marines, space marines are over there" *points across the store*

His older brother being the hot head he is quickly intervened and snapped the tank brush and they walked out

A reasonable response I think.

3rdGen wrote:
Oh he was. I was talking to a mate yesterday. He said they went into that store and his little brother was looking at chaos bikers even though he was a marine player. When he asked "hey mate what army are you playing?" and his brother replied "space marines" he proceeded to hit him on the head with a tank brush while saying " these are chaos marines, space marines are over there" *points across the store*

His older brother being the hot head he is quickly intervened and snapped the tank brush and they walked out

Isnt that classed as assault? Hitting him with a brush?
I know that if I had been in the older brothers position I would have inserted that brush into the owner via orifices not previously there.

 master of ordinance wrote:


Isnt that classed as assault? Hitting him with a brush?
I know that if I had been in the older brothers position I would have inserted that brush into the owner via orifices not previously there.

In all technicalities yes, but try finding a court that'll entertain it

Iranna.

Depends, he threw objects at the younger brother. How old was the younger brother? If he was 16, nah, they won't care. 8 or 10? I think they'd have done something about it. Either way, that store owner should have been castrated.

3rdGen wrote:


Another story. Up north from me is another store. This guys is the biggest c*** you will meet. He kicked a kid out of the store for "arguing" because he used space marines as red corsairs.... ORIGINALLY RED CORSAIRS WERE JUST SPACE MARINES WITH RED "X's" THROUGH THEIR ICONGRAPHY. When in this store i was refused service because i looked at ravagers and talos and ended up at the counter with a haemonculus because i decided to get some other stuff on the way home... Just because i considered a more expensive product he actually refused to serve me because i took a cheaper option.

This guy was sacked after (don't know if there rumours or truth) he received "numerous" complaints, apparently the most they've had about an Australian employee

Oh! I would have a field day with that moron, what is your name can i speak to your manager, make me leave the store, Sure call the cops, explain them why you not serve me etcetera!

 master of ordinance wrote:
Isnt that classed as assault? Hitting him with a brush?
I know that if I had been in the older brothers position I would have inserted that brush into the owner via orifices not previously there.

I doubt the cops would put a light whack with a paintbrush as a high priority after your attempted murder.

 Elector wrote:

 master of ordinance wrote:
Isnt that classed as assault? Hitting him with a brush?
I know that if I had been in the older brothers position I would have inserted that brush into the owner via orifices not previously there.

I doubt the cops would put a light whack with a paintbrush as a high priority after your attempted murder.

Eh, true.
I guess im just applying the UK's laws to other countries now

 Leigen_Zero wrote:

 Vulcan wrote:

On subject... There was one time I was playing a blood bowl game at a store that had it's gaming area in the basement, and the sales floor on the main floor. We finished the game and went upstairs... only to find the store had closed and the clerk had forgotten to come down and 'kick us out.'

Fortunately the owner's phone numbers were easily found and we called them to let us out. They were so sorry... and I'm pretty sure the clerk found himself hunting for a new job afterwards because I never saw him there again

*snipping the politics*

That sounds pretty awesome, a lock-in at a game store

So long as some food and beverages are available, I would have stayed the night, playing games until the wee small hours, having deep philosophical conversation to pass the time, painting the first person that falls asleep to at least a tournament-standard 3 colour minimum

And when the owner turns up in the morning and finds, to his suprise, the impromptu squatters in his basement, I would boldly exclaim:
'Well I hope you brought breakfast!'






for the non-UK folks, for whom I am unsure if their respective cultures have a similar custom, a 'lock-in' is when a publican chooses to follow the legal procedure of closing up &locking the doors of a bar/pub/tavern after the time at which his or her license prevents him from selling alcoholic beverages or remaining open for business, without first removing the current patrons, then continuing to serve alcohol, although not exactly 'above board', long into the night and well past the aforementioned closing time.

Leigen knows how to make lemons into lemonade, and then throw lemonade at the owner if the owner didn't bring breakfast.


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 wowsmash wrote:
I remember hackmaster. was the first and only dnd style game I played. Couldn't keep any of my characters alive though. Mainly do to idiotic companions I think. Gave up after that.

My group was big time into the HMPA and HMGMA. We hosted a lot of learn to play events and hosted tournaments. Our last OwlCon tournament was the largest HackMaster event outside of GenCon (run by Jolly Blackburn and David Kenzer).

After about 7 years though, we got burnt out and switched to Pathfinder, which we like better.

I remember Owlcon. Ran some Epic tourneys there. They still send me emails.

I visited a FLGS in a near by mall. I went in to see that they were clearing out GW product because of lack of support. I decided to strike up conversation with the owner just asking why they were clearing out the GW products. He told me that people didn't like to come to a "Mall Store" because it was in the mall. He was very snappy and rude when he replied. I looked around the store and saw no play space or tables for miniatures games. I then asked him if he had any play space or a backroom. He got even more animated and rude and pointed to a large pile of boxes and displays that were just thrown into an open space. "I have plenty of play space! It's just no one wants to come to a mall store..." He was once again snappy and rude and was even talking down to me this time. I finished my transaction with a forced smile and left. I almost felt like saying to him maybe it's not the fact that you'r store is in a mall maybe it's the level of service to provide? I'm supporting your business and your being rude to me? I never went back to the store. I visited the mall a month later and his store was gone.


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 Doctadeth wrote:
We had the MTG guys come in unannounced for a tournament, the day we had booked out the MTG area for a 40K tournament, booked over 2 months in advance.

because MTG "magically" gets more sales (despite 3/4 of them getting their cards off the net) the TO got shafted, no refund on the bond he had to pay (350 bucks) and we ended up having no tournament that quarter, meaning the TO was out another 400 bucks for the prize money.

We now run our tournament days at the Italian club, which means we get food, drink AND a bathroom and the LGS doesn't get our business.

This happens all the time at most FLGS around here.

 DarkWind wrote:
... I visited the mall a month later and his store was gone.

... Was he a GHOST?!?

 wowsmash wrote:
Last time I was in the store we had about 8 guys around the table watching a 2v2 match all the model's and terrain were painted to a high degree. The 4 by 6 table was supported by a 2 by 6 table. One of the guys trips over a chair and starts to go down and reaches for the table. The table starts to come up and 8 pairs of hands slam down on the table to keep it in place. All of us are holding the table in place while we watch him eat it. I was across the table so there wasn't much I could do but I still felt like a douche for saving the table and not him. Felt like slow motion as he was going down. He had the weirdest look on his face to.

You did the right thing brother.