ANONYMOUS BLOGGER ON OOBJECT.COM CALLS THE HELLIONS THE MOST DISTURBING PAINTBALL TEAM
ANONYMOUS - August 20 , 2009 - Some people take paintball very seriously, and the boundary between harmless fun, unintentional irony and plain creepy is blurred. Here are paintball teams that look like outright militia, and some are. They include a church team in full combat gear a German group that re-enacts LAPD swat team offensives, and three very disturbing teams: a Japanese paintball re-enactment of the Yugoslav civil war complete with Serbian militia uniforms; an US vs Iraq shoot em up in Jordan and a sinister third Reich Team with Eagle T-shirts. Vote them down.
Of course, all of the content on the Oobject site is pirated from other sites. The image of the Hellions was taken off of the site of one of its members, Gary "Sandman" Urbhan who has a side business called "Crucible Leadership Training". Crucible teaches leadership skills to youths through paintball. The image is a group photograph taken at the National Police Paintball Organization's "Operation: Knightfall" scenario in February 2008 where the Hellions volunteered to be the Oppositional Forces (OPFOR).
While it's self-described "passionate enthusiasts" obviously intended it to be a negative dig against the teams pictured on their site, dozens of members of the scenario paintball world rallied to poke fun at the liberal bias of the anonymous author. The Hellions still hold the top position of the '12 very disturbing paintball teams' list by a +47 rating.
Below are a few screenshots of the site and posted comments the first few days that it ran. Since then more players have come out and posted supportive and somewhat colorful comments; some we know, some we love, and some we don't. Here is one of the team's personal favorites, which was posted by Bond Chick of the Valkyries:
Such a handsome group of well-muscled, well armed men! Don’t let the Hellions fool you. They are polite, kind, considerate and very charming gentlemen. They play with honor, dignity and respect. They go to church every Sunday and are notorious for helping little old blue-haired ladies across the street. A sweeter more genteel group of men can’t be found.
Never talking with their mouth full, their elbows are never on the table. Doors for the ladies are always opened and they all have “I love mom” tattoos on their bulging biceps.
It’s also been said that they’re all hung like elephants. At least that’s what WK2 tells me.
Disclaimer: The above excerpts were taken from an anonymous article, which appeared in August 2009 on a blog of some obscure site called OObject.com and is reprinted in part here without permission. Oobject describes itself as ..."part of Curations. A group of sites, updated daily with hand edited picks by passionate enthusiasts." For more information about the actual article or its other ridiculous posts by its passioned enthusiasts, visit the original site: www.oobject.com.
