DD and I were in W-M last week standing in the return line. The boy in front of us had the most gosh awful looking eye I've ever seen in my life. I wasn't able to look a second time and neither was DD. DH walked up and I asked him what was wrong with the boys eye. Being the observant man that he is, I had missed the paintball gun in the cart (DUH!! on me). The boys eyelid looked like it was detached from the eyeball, turned up and extremely red. Totally gross.

Wow, he's lucky he didn't lose his eye. Paintballs really hurt and leave horrible bruises. Crazy kid, should have had a face shield on!

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OMG! My boys paintball but everyone around here requires that you wear a full face mask. I even have a lightweight 'body armor' type of thing that protects their chest and back. I hope that the parents didn't just buy him a gun but no mask or protective gear.

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There was a paintball gun and face mask in the cart with red stickers notated by the door greeter as being carried in with no packaging. I assumed the items were being returned. We're standing there for a few minutes and the dad walks up with a package of air cartridges, not really sure what, at least it was some type of paintball accessory. The next thing I know the whole family leaves the return line. So I guess they decided to keep the paintball stuff even with the serious eye injury.

ugh those things can do a lot of damage a local lady was blinded in one eye by kids playing with paintball guns

Do you know that the eye injury was actually caused by the paintball gun?

NO, that was my inquiry here. What would an eye look like that is hit with a paintball?? Just thinking about it makes my eyes start watering. It was that yucky looking. I can't even begin to imagine what caused the injury if it wasn't a paintball. In fact, no matter what caused the injury, I'm surprised the eye wasn't patched.

It would do a great deal of damage.....Around here you have to wear the proper equipment, but if kids are just fooling around then it wouldn't be hard to do....

Could be an eye injury from something else, who knows......I do know if one of my kids suffered an injury like you described they would be done with paintball

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My boys were really into paintballs for a while but no one ever was hit in the eye with one. They always wore the mask. It could have been any number of things that caused this boy's eye injury. It could have been a BB gun (you'll shoot your eye out!), snowball fight (not sure where you are though), could have been anything. I sure hope they had taken the child to a doctor. I'm surprised it wasn't covered, too. Poor child.

I used to play paintball with my DH and DS and a bunch of friends every weekend. We had all the safety stuff masks, headgear, hardtopped gloves incase you got hit in the hand all that good stuff.

No matter how careful we were someone always ended up bruised somewhere where a ball smacked them. We played in the winter time and the balls would get cold almost frozen and when that happened and you got hit you would get a good baseball sized whelp that would bruise. I have seen people hit in the face even with masks on they have had their heads turned just the slightest way and the ball would slip through a crack that wasnt covered it happens. My DH friend one time had whelps and bruises all over his back one time when we got done. Funny thing was he didnt even realize it until someone pointed it out when he took his shirt off.

The guys used to laugh at me. I was the one who had about 10 layers of clothes under my cammies and boots up to my knees. I looked like the Michilan man I could barely walk but if I got hit I wouldn't feel it.

But in answer to your question after playing for along time and considering the time of year it is yes I could very much picture that kind of injury if they got hit with a ball. If they were close range and the ball was cold it could leave a injury like that plus the eye area is sensitive to bruising which makes it even worse.