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As in title.

This was a story my mate told me. It happened at our local gaming club (yes, i am a member), maybe several years back, there was this new fella who apparently joined us, he was quite knowledgeable, but our club spends more time talking than playing so its basically a rowdy convo, ie the veterans chatting shop and dick measuring, anyway, this new fella had a pretty good knowledge of the 30k setting, and then one of our guys made a joke about the scouring and this new guy queried him, so the convo naturally leds towards the immediate aftermath of the SOT (scouring, malcador vapourised, emperor placed on the throne, codex astartes argument, blah blah blah).

New guy lost it, said we were spoiling the story and making gak up blah blah blah how could we know who would win blah blah

anyway, allegedly, the new guy only played 30k and read most of the 30k books and had no clue about 40k. I think i remember seeing several similar crashouts on reddit with similar themes over the last few years in any case, so not entirely unprecedented.

So what other crashouts have you guys seen?

I see a kid throw a dreadnaught through a wall at the mall once. At a GW store, wanted something big and his Mum said no, and some other guys dreadnaught ended up suffering for it. Luckily no one on the other side got hit.

There was also a marriage proposal at a tournament, which was particularly poor timeing. As the girlfriend didn’t particularly like 40K and had been suffering in the heat to be there, definitely wasn’t the time for such things. It went downhill fast and she drove off leaving him stranded, she never come back and he never spoke of her ever again at the shop. So I’m thinking possibly that was the end of the relationship.

I'm not sure if this counts, but it was really gakky for everyone involved...

There was a lady who used to come into our shop and play a Daemons of Chaos army list for Warhammer Fantasy. She had lots of naked Daemonettes in her army (Strange what you remember?)

Her husband was drinking a soda from one of those Super Big Gulp cups from 7-11 and generally hanging out.

What I didn't realize was, that his cup was empty and he was taking blister packs of Battletech miniatures and putting them in the cup and making runs to his car and dumping them off.

Our store manager caught him outside and called the police. He opted to make a break for it and leave.

Yes. He left his wife behind and unaware of what was going on.

She didn't find out until the final round when the cops came to talk to her and she found out that her husband had been arrested for shoplifting and various other fun things.

The police did offer to drive her home.

She separated from him and sold her army. She told us that she never knew if he stole units from shops and gave them to her as gifts.

I can't remember what she played next. But he was banned from the store and we never saw him again.