Physical aggression and fighting in a GW or flgs?

[kalon]

Never had any fights break out at our FLGS, I did ban a kid because he purposely broke another chaps model, this was clearly a case of "if I can't have it, neither can you!" I know that both of the female players we have would quite happily slap anyone who even thought of "copping a feel" and they'd have my full support. We did have one of our older players send a couple of buildings flying across the room once, I stopped his game and suggested that he spend the rest of the day repairing the damage. He ended up doing a great job and the buildings looked much better afterwards

[Ixe]

Yeah, 2008 or something 'ard boyz semi's down at showcase comic's in Pennsylvania one of the participants was escorted out by security from threatening his opponent.

I was there! I came within snatching distance of the finals, but in my last match I went "DERP!" and adopted a completely nonsensical tactic. I was tired and hungry. Anyway, the guy's exact words were, "If I ever see you again, I'll beat your ass."

EDIT: And actually it was in 2010. Unless this is a different incident in 2008.

[Liber]

The huge majority of posts in this thread that involve physical contact are almost definitely products of over-active imagination coupled with a failure to divorce fantasy from reality.

I'd bet every dollar I have that the ratio of factual vs. fictional stories is around 9 to 1.

Yes, I am that confident in the validity of the stories I've read so far.

Embellished details? Sure, what story is complete without them though?

[Meriwether]

Embellished details? Sure, what story is complete without them though?

True stories are complete without them.

[Ixe]

I'd bet every dollar I have that the ratio of factual vs. fictional stories is around 9 to 1.

Yes, I am that confident in the validity of the stories I've read so far.

Embellished details? Sure, what story is complete without them though?

Seriously. The people who think that physical contact never happens during a game of 40k have a vastly naive picture of the human capacity for civilization. There are some people who are simply incapable of conforming their behavior to civilized norms, i.e. don't hit people over a game. And not all of them are in jail, and some of them play GW games.

As for embellished details, it's likely they've been added in the retelling rather than added just for fun. That's how stories work. Someone tells a story, someone else remembers it slightly wrong and the wrong version gets passed on, etc. Anything that's presented as "I heard" rather than from an eyewitness should probably be taken with a grain of salt, simply because if the person didn't see it it's hard to judge if they have any idea what really happened. In court, we call such passed on rumors "hearsay" and we don't consider them reliable for the most part.

[the anti santa]

As for embellished details, it's likely they've been added in the retelling rather than added just for fun. That's how stories work. Someone tells a story, someone else remembers it slightly wrong and the wrong version gets passed on, etc. Anything that's presented as "I heard" rather than from an eyewitness should probably be taken with a grain of salt, simply because if the person didn't see it it's hard to judge if they have any idea what really happened. In court, we call such passed on rumors "hearsay" and we don't consider them reliable for the most part.

Plus if you were to ask 10 different people who all saw the same incident to tell you about it there would be all kinds of small differences. You get that with non-gaming related events (i.e. unimportant ) all the time.

Can't say I've ever seen fisticuffs or anything like that but in my younger days I did have a strop when my friend was taking forever to take his turn in Bloodbowl and bounced one of my models off the board. It still has a dent in it.

[theLastWulfen]

I can just imagine being the responding police officer to an incident at a FLGS where a adult male slaps a female and she breaks his nose. (BTW, all the alpha females I have known can break a man's nose quite easily.)
After I stopped laughing, this guy just would just be getting off easy just paying her and going to anger management. As opposed to what my report would say and the money (thousands)and time spent in court trying to fight real charges.
I'm surprised meriwether has never seen any violence at gaming stores. With his obnoxious behavior and obvious trolling I'm surprised no ever broke his nose.
Most bad behavior problems usually occur in the more affluent suburban neighborhoods where they know they can get away with it without consequences. As opposed to urban environments where a whooping is more commonplace.

[Meriwether]

I'm surprised meriwether has never seen any violence at gaming stores. With his obnoxious behavior and obvious trolling I'm surprised no ever broke his nose.

You wound me, sir. I might not believe 99.999% of the drivel in this thread, but that doesn't mean I'm trolling. I never go out of my way to be mean. When giving my opinion, I never go out of my way to be nice, either -- but that doesn't make me a troll.

For the record, my nose has been broken three times, but never in anger.

[theLastWulfen]

ROTFLMAO, you don't have to be angry to break someone's nose, just aggravated!

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
R.E.Howard

[Awken]

God, these are all horror stories. I feel blessed, the only thing remotely in this same league I can think of is a Necron player slamming his fist on the table and loudly cursing, breaking a few of his own poorly primed models in the process, as another Guard player and I ganged up on him in an Apocalypse game. I did have about 750 points of Space Marines stolen from my casualty pile in that same game because I wasn't paying attention, so if thievery counts...

[Meriwether]

ROTFLMAO, you don't have to be angry to break someone's nose, just aggravated!

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
R.E.Howard

Heh. What I meant was that in none of those incidents was it intentional!

[tu33y]

is "anger management" a thing here in england? it seems more of a judge judy thing.

on the plus side this thread is not massive, so such events (real or fanciful) are obviously rare!

[Spider-pope]

It does exist. I used to work at a branch of HMV where the assistant manager was required to go on a 3 month anger management course after she punched a "customer" during a prolonged argument over refusing a refund.

I can believe the bulk of the stories in this thread - the one ported from Dakka is straining my suspension of disbelief to breaking point granted - because given the large number of hobbyists, from across the globe its inevitable random acts of violence will occur. If, like me, you've never encountered such things (beyond flailing at drug addicts and the occasional red range ruler fight as a kid that is) you should just be thankful you play with individuals with a firm grasp on what is acceptable behaviour.

[baphomael]

The closest I've experienced is a random kid tipping my Eisenhorn off the edge of the table, breaking every piece and shipping it badly. I have no idea why he did it.

[Scammel]

shipping it badly

Where to?

I jest, I jest.

[baphomael]

Where to?

I jest, I jest.

Curses!

Wait, why did my phone correct chipping to shipping?!

[Scammel]

Probably in order to distance itself from any possible implications of involvement with the Chipping Norton set in the current political climate.

Or something like that.

[magath]

Heh. What I meant was that in none of those incidents was it intentional!

Rugby or something similar?

I will say this. As an acid test, over the past 2 years I've seen more physical violence in my job (church: 1 fight) than in GW (0 fights)

also, wasn't there a story that does the rounds in threads like this about a thrown metal dreadnought? I remember reading it once, can anyone shed any light on that?

[Meriwether]

Rugby or something similar?

Something similar, yes.

[BobtheInquisitor]

Something similar, yes.

The Kamikaze Kama Sutra?