Animals at YPC - York

[Fatbobs]

Before anyone starts, this post is absolutely genuine and is not a wind up.

Last year during the winter we found large paw prints on the old Quad track in the mud. Much bigger than a dog, but thought nothing of it.

Then this year during a game, a couple of members of Panic Attack and a number of players saw a large cat, around panther size in the field adjacent to the wood.

Then a couple of months ago Bill, the site manager is convinced he saw a Kangeroo in the wood.

A couple of weeks ago, whilst someone was leaving the site, they saw an Ostrich running along side their car, looking into the driver side window in excess of 30mph. Giving them the fright of their life.

Again, all of the above is absolutely true and not a wind up.
:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

[skel]

safari paintball, nice idea fatbob :D

[Philip]

See, LSD in the free dinners is not a good idea :p :D

[Tom]

I think it's the marshalls - they're a bunch of animals.

Tom

[fleisher]

I've had some of the mushrooms from behind the fort as well:D :rolleyes: .
However,not sure about the cats ,ostriches etc.,But the Kangaroo might have some basis in truth as it may not have been a `roo but a WALLABYS . There are wild colonys of WALLABYS in the UK ,some I believe in the Peak District National Park and some on the North Yorks moors.These animals are escaped\released animals that have bred,the colonys are well documented.
If you're serious about this why not contact the Fortean Times ,as it'll get a plug in their mag for you.;)

[Fatbobs]

I think there is an Ostrich farm somewhere near, we have had players from there in the past, so one may have escped.

It's the big cat thats the puzzler

andy

[fleisher]

This is where I turn into a nerd,ABC's(Alien Big Cats,I warned you) are getting to be very common sightings,and yet nobodys ever caught one or gathered any conclusive evidence to back up a sighting.Most sightings I've read about has turned out to be a dog,badly video'd cat,hoax etc.
Thats not to say ABC's aren't possible in this country as I posted earlier non indiginous animals are not uncommon in the wild in the UK,not only WALLABYS,but European Mountain Goats,Mink and the most common , the Grey Squirel all introduced or released into the wild by man,so its more than possible that in some rural areas like Dartmoor that, say Pumas,Panthers and the like could have been released to breed by irresponsible people,as I doubt an escaped big cat would find its way to one of these remote areas on its own.

[Philip]

I ran over a grey squirral on wednesday afternoon during my driving lesson....ooops :eek:

[fleisher]

Grey squirels are classed as vermin anyway Philip,tree rats,so you've done the eco system some good:D ,however if it'd been a red one you'd have been "banged up" as they're a protected species.I am the David Attenborough of paintball:rolleyes:

[Philip]

Yeah, i knew about the grey and red, but the instructor wasn't impressed about the bits of squiral in the wheel arch :D

[fleisher]

You could have made a nice "Davy Crocket " style hat out of it,perfect for Campaign.

[Stodp]

Fatbob,

I was marshelling on the same field as the Panic Attack on te day they saw the big black cat. The thing is one admited later o that in fact it was tabby? Although it was 3ft tall? Perhaps you have a genetic research centre close by?

[robtattoo]

[ There are wild colonys of Wombats in the UK ,some I believe in the Peak District National Park and some on the North Yorks moors.These animals are escaped\released animals that have bred,the colonys are well documented.

Don't you mean wallabys ? A wombat looks more like a coypu or capybara nowt like a 'roo.

[FaDeH]

There has been a lot of speculation about the big panthers etc.

Truth is that people used to keep these big cats as pets but when the law came out some what years ago, these owners released them out in the countryside of the UK, people have admitted this on the news and the big cat experts has also released several species of big cats so it isn't a mystery.

Id set up a decent net around your perimeter to keep people safe during paintball :)

[father jack]

Personally, i dont think that the paintballer is at risk here. We all know that when a pheasant or similar animal is caught up in the crossfire of a heated game, that it "gets some", shouldnt be there, collateral damage etc. oh well, just my opinion. I think a panther wouldnt stick around if it had paintball guns making loud noises and lunatics shooting it its general direction. i think that panther, big cat whatever should be protected from us !

[FaDeH]

hehe

[fleisher]

Originally posted by robtattoo
[ There are wild colonys of Wombats in the UK ,some I believe in the Peak District National Park and some on the North Yorks moors.These animals are escaped\released animals that have bred,the colonys are well documented.

Don't you mean wallabys ? A wombat looks more like a coypu or capybara nowt like a 'roo.

Wallabys,I'm glad you spotted my deliberate mistake:o ,erm yeah :rolleyes:

[robtattoo]

:eek: I once went out with a lass who had a big, black cat.
Sorry, pussy :D

[Dark Warrior]

Predator bitten by unknown large animal

[FaDeH]

hehe nice to know the predator can get hurt finally :p

[BOD]

It could have been a large dog that left tracks on the quad track

[BOD]

It's behind you

[BOD]

Havin a tall lookout's an advantage

[BOD]

The sandwiches arn't ready yet

[Tom]

LOL

[FaDeH]

lol nice one dude

[Beany]

how come none of the wildlife at ypc has any paint splats on em. come on lets see skippy with a bit of colour...:p

[fleisher]

Bod man those are classics:D :D :D :D :D :cool:

[BOD]

At ypc you dont shoot the wildlife, if it isn't carrying a gun, wearing camo or a face mask you don't shoot it, this does not apply to the predator of course and of course to the easter bunny:D :D :D

[littletone]

if the tracks were at the back of a field and looking as if this beast has been wandering about aimlessly ,the tracks may belong to a................................................. ............................


TORTOISE:D :D



P/S
nice one BOD:)

[Fatbobs]

Brilliant!!!
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[thunderbird]

york is my local and favourite site (as its the only one i have been to in the 4 or so years i have been doing it) and im supprised that there isnt a notice, iknow we arent supposed to shoot wildlife but if a big cat is loose it will get painted sorry:D i was down on the 13 of april and im fortunate to say nobody was hurt by animal attacks just mine:cool:

[FaDeH]

so these sightings can be confirmed by you thunderbird ?

[Nic Tivey]

Me an Brown were gonna play at YPC at York once, but there was this massive mean lookin alien m*********er walkin around that put the S****s up us, maybe it's his cat. Did it look anything like this?

[FaDeH]

nah my missus don't play paintball

[fleisher]

Originally posted by Nic Tivey
Me an Brown were gonna play at YPC at York once, but there was this massive mean lookin alien m*********er walkin around that put the S****s up us, maybe it's his cat. Did it look anything like this?

DOG SOLDIERS.:D TOP FILM:cool: ;) :D

[Tortoise-Licker]

Originally posted by FaDeH
nah my missus don't play paintball

no thats not your missus this is your missus

[FaDeH]

ahh my precious !
(don't tell the first missus i have 2 missus's)

[Beany]

if anyone wandered where the monkey went off the ITV digital advert, well i took this picture of him at my local site. he was bewing used as a practice moving target....

[Welsh]

Where is the picture??:(

[FaDeH]

I know im gutted too

[Nic Tivey]

He came with us (The Twelve Monkeys) to Wrexham last year to a walk on day, say's he thoroughly enjoyed it too:D :D :D

[Nic Tivey]

As you can see from this pic:D

[FaDeH]

hehehe, i bet you he was the best player there

[alan phoenix]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Fatbob
[B]I think there is an Ostrich farm somewhere near, we have had players from there in the past, so one may have escped.



paintball playin ostriches :eek: :confused: :confused:
guinness book of records here we come.:D :D

[robtattoo]

did you know, that all bird's eggs, including the ostrich are exactly the same proportions ? It doesn't matter how big they are, they are all proportionately identical.
I'm as very drunk so this probably doesn't make any sense, or be related to the topic in any way !

night night.

[FaDeH]

That is unreliable information, why else would the eggs be bigger but contain the same amount inside ? evolution would have them all the same size if that was the case...:rolleyes:

[Welsh]

Think he is meaning somethink like it is always 30% longer than it is wide or somethink like that!
Not that the contents are always the same amount whether it is a huge egg or a small one!:cool:

[FaDeH]

Who cares what the pisshead is saying :D:D:D:D

[gaz_miggy]

you say it was a 3ft tabby was propbly somthing like a links or somthing they have been seen around and about

[Beany]

i thought that too im sure i attached the pic to that last post ill have another go..........soon

[mcd]

The cat was seen by Damien and myself on the shoot the radar feild while we were marshaling, just after game on Damien shouted over to me to look towards the feild next to the quad track so i looked at a player and shouted back "no he's clean play on" Damien then shouted again not the player the field and there it was about two hundred meters away BIG black cat :eek: but this wasnt like ah how cute a panther it was more like oh s**t were all about to be eaten, the cat was doing about 30mph ish and ran like a cat not a dog big difference. I wouldnt have beleived my own eyes because ive had more mushys in my time than i care to remember and it could have always been a crazy ass flashback thank god Damien saw it to or i might have had to visit the guys in the white coats again god dam straight jackets piss me off:D

[Beany]

hope this has worked poor thing. he he he he

still cant get the damb thing to work

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i think it could be that my forum rules says html code is off and i cant alter it ???? any ideas

[FaDeH]

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Dunno

[Beany]

dont either why cant it be as simple as copying and pasting the location and job done...no wonder im only workin as a sparky cuz i cant get to grips with this computer lark D'OH:confused:


oh yeah and not be long and YPC will be on discovery channel---playing host to the ~"BIG CAT DIARY"~

[Fatbobs]

:D :D :D

[Skyhawk]

So do cats get a discount? cause my Birman's want to go and play

[fleisher]

Fat Bob will always go out of his way if it involves pussy :confused:

[Fatbobs]

Just an update, saw a deer today, and a woodpecker

Andy

[landmindscap]

A wood pecker wow. That'll make it a site of Special Scientific interest no more paintball there. or don't tell Bill Oddie

[Fatbobs]

bump

[Tom]

Originally posted by landmindscap
A wood pecker wow. That'll make it a site of Special Scientific interest no more paintball there. or don't tell Bill Oddie

We get woodpeckers in our garden at home, but that's not a SSSI?

[jokersmoker]

i get wood in my pecker from time to time too.:p :confused: :eek:

[ode]

A farmer near Cardiff shot and killed a puma on his land a couple of weeks back, about the size of a small alsatian. They had it on display out the back of his local pub. Seems there are quite a few places where these cats have set up home :)

[FrontManDan]

Has there been any cases of people shooting rabbits or summit at ypc? (would 2-3balls kill a rabit?)

not that i would, im friend 2 all animals except rats (yuuuuck) there was this 1 in a drain and i swear it went for my neck, makes my skin crawl now thinking about it

[Andy-YPC]

Well, it's all over the papers today that 3 people have seen a Tiger near Church Fenton. That's about 10 miles from the site (as the crow flies)

[seany boy]

I was in church fenton last night...in a marquee! :eek:

[JUGGERNAUT]

scary lol................ although i bet they were pi55ed

[madtoxic]

does this mean we get danger money for marshalling...... next time i marshall im taking my gun out with me...

[Dan M]

looks like there are primates on the loose aswell

http://www.genesispaintball.co.uk/ypc180606/11.htm

Yeah appologies due there, we let him go for a while, he's now safley back in the middle container fixing infernos morning noon and night.

[BOD]

Sounds familiar.:p Just might take my air rifle to work tommorow.

[The Crimson King]

it's ok, if a tiger shows up at ypc, we'll just point it towards shady, that should keep it happy for a good few months:D (love ya realy shady:p ), but seriously, lets feed shady to it.

[madtoxic]

i think andy should offer a free entry to one of the genisis events . for any team willing to camp out over night in his woods

[Wrathchild]

im game :)

[BOD]

i think andy should offer a free entry to one of the genisis events . for any team willing to camp out over night in his woods

Sounds fair enough to me, but i think you aught have a marshal camping with you, just for saftey purposes. I think clarkie should do.:p

[Hou]

Sounds fair enough to me, but i think you aught have a marshal camping with you, just for saftey purposes. I think clarkie should do.:p

Awwww but I wanted to do it................................................ .....


no its ok, ill move aside and let clarkie do it! :p

[Lambchop]

sorry to hijack but Hou your Sig. is brilliant, it should be stickied

[Hou]

Cheers mate, so do I!

i fink itz wel wckd init, dunt u?

It should be refered back to every time someone speaks text!

[D3ath ADder]

When I bought gear from darlo Just Paintball before the guyin there told me about the sighting of a big cat running full pelt over a field beside the YPC and I was taking the 'yeah right' attitude because I though it was some sort of newbie paintballer gullibility test.

So I was wrong :( eek

[Chris]

might have to get that guy from australia steve irwin to track it down, train it and then make it ypc new monster witch actually does attack you lol

p.s its monthly pay can be raw meat lol

[J@mes]

either that or a obese child....:D

[Seth]

and now on itv it s time for anutha visit to our old friends at Yorkshire Paintball Centre for another fun filled episode of 'Fast Animals, Slow Children'.

[D3ath ADder]

Next time I go I'm going to be crapping myself each time I see a panther stalking me out the corner of my goggles.

[The Crimson King]

Next time I go I'm going to be crapping myself each time I see a panther stalking me out the corner of my goggles.

hmmm, anyone know where i can get some black fuzzy material and a cats ears headband??:p

[Shady]

definately gonna be wearin me runnin shoes nxt time im marshalling

[Seth]

definately gonna be wearin me runnin shoes nxt time im marshalling

Its a well known saying in canada, if u meet a dangerous animal, u dont have to outrun it, just make sure u can outrun ur friend.

[alan21784]

another fun filled episode of 'Fast Animals, Slow Children'.Ha Ha :D, sounds like a good show:rolleyes::D

[D3ath ADder]

It is time to buy one of these and place it a few hundred meters from the tape round the pyramid zone.

http://www.allplush.com/storefront/StuffedAnimals/images/P7362.jpg

[brettwambach]

Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Bad fish. Not like going down to the pond and chasing bluegills and tommycocks. This shark, swallow you whole. No shakin', no tenderizin', down you go. And we gotta do it quick, that'll bring back your tourists, put all your businesses on a payin' basis. But it's not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chief. I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him, and kill him, for ten. But you've gotta make up your minds. If you want to stay alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, be on welfare the whole winter. I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's too many captains on this island. Ten thousand dollars for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.

[J@mes]

somebody been smoking funny fags??

[D3ath ADder]

We're gonna need a bigger quad bike!

[brettwambach]

Its a quote from Jaws.... D3ath ADder got it !!!

[SlipperySquid]

Gotta remember some people aint old enough to have seen Jaws :D
QUINT
You're in the cage?
(Hooper nods)
The cage is in the water?
(Hooper nods)
The shark is in the water too?
(Hooper nods)
You're in the water with the shark.

"Farewell and adieu you fair spanish ladies......farewell and adieu you ladies of Spain...."

http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Jaws.html and theres the full movie script :D

[The Don]

this is why we dont shoot the animals...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/matt_d_78/dontshoottheanimals.jpg

[Stencil]

Okay, i go to the YPC regually and if i see that...well if their not endangered now they will be.

I'm scared.

[BOD]

It's not big cats you need to be worried about, as the person who spends more time down there than anyone i can honestly say it's the insects that have me worried, something flew past my head today and the draft from it's wings nearly knocked me of the ladder and i weigh 19 stone.

[Stencil]

Yer, I'm still covered in bites from last weekend, thank you!

[Goodbeer]

last time i went i ended up looking like i had measles cos of those genetically modified mozzies u got down there i think they are immune to bug spray:mad:

[Lambchop]

Bods breading the mozzies to get to dog size so they can carry his markers

[The Don]

exclusive pictures of the YPC BEAST!!!

2674



ok ok so im bored tonight.

[Seth]

Phew, at least now we'll be forewarned when that beast is approaching, cant miss that theme music.

[alan21784]

yeah, this time of the year the mozzies are right savages, they'll take your leg given half a chance:D :rolleyes:

[D3ath ADder]

exclusive pictures of the YPC BEAST!!!

2674



ok ok so im bored tonight.

Awww I'm only slightly disappointed that you didn't edit it so the panther is grabbing that guys ass....it would be doubly scary if we had a sexual predator :D

[Stencil]

They already do.

That guy who dresses up as a predator makes people do things with other people.

You had to see it.:eek: :D

[Mr. Longbeard]

last time i went i ended up looking like i had measles cos of those genetically modified mozzies u got down there i think they are immune to bug spray:mad:

Get yourself a hold of Squids bottle of white juice, what ever it is it does the job :eek:

[BOD]

Get yourself a hold of Squids bottle of white juice, what ever it is it does the job :eek:
I think i'd rather risk the mozzie bites.:rolleyes:

[Stencil]

Lol, me too.

[SlipperySquid]

You know it takes me ages to milk that stuff!!!!!

[exposeuk]

hill billie jisim is better
:P

[Andy-YPC]

And now we have a Death Adder

[D3ath ADder]

What a real one? I bloody hope not I hate them

[Mac.]

i think this wins the award for longest running thread

[Chris]

i think this wins the award for longest running thread

showcase your marker ?

[Mac.]

how long has that been running? since 03? if so bugger

[Chris]

nope your write i was judging on how any pages it has.

chris

[Mr. Longbeard]

And now we have a Death Adder

Well they say any publicity is good publicity ;)

"Adder bites Adder"

Either way round is good

[Stefan Gowlar]

at first when you said an animal i first thought of andy and when you said a kangaroo hmm rather weird lol.

[Andy-YPC]

A 6 year old thread....
Quite interesting to see some old names there

[sumo]

grave digging the oldest thread on the site, well done.

[BOD]

Not quite the oldest, http://www.talkpaintball.com/archive/index.php/t-1.html

[Andy-YPC]

Looks like I have the honour of the first ever post on Talkpaintball.com

[BOD]

I didn't hear all the conversation but i'm sure i heard that a rabbit attacked one of the players today.

[PaintMagnet]

there was some chatter over the radio about some sort of invincible rabbit, apparently it took 3 shots to head before it fled. i might have heard wrong though

[dev dev]

I didn't hear all the conversation but i'm sure i heard that a rabbit attacked one of the players today.

fento's the best to ask about that story

[BOD]

You know how there's always big mounds of earth appearing all over the place, it's the moles i'd be worried about, sneaky little buggers.4270

[nobbsy]

Those moles are pod thiefs :P always going behind people like that

[Fento]

I didn't hear all the conversation but i'm sure i heard that a rabbit attacked one of the players today.

one of the funniest things ive witnessed on a painball site... a rabbit bolted accross beirut in the middle of a game ran up a mound and launched itself almost on top of a punter who was laid behind. The punter litterally crapped himself and was in total shock that this rabbit had launched itself at him, he then proceeded to quickly stand, scream like a little girl and take a shot to the back of the head. At this point he was stood shaking like a s**tting dog and in the middle of his blue aired swearfest shot at the rabbit and hit it on the arse. The rabbit just sat there and took it like more of a man than the punter, it then calmly and slowly wandered off leaving the punter still stood and dazed to the point i had to help him off the field.

[sniped222]

one of the funniest things ive witnessed on a painball site... a rabbit bolted accross beirut in the middle of a game ran up a mound and launched itself almost on top of a punter who was laid behind. The punter litterally crapped himself and was in total shock that this rabbit had launched itself at him, he then proceeded to quickly stand, scream like a little girl and take a shot to the back of the head. At this point he was stood shaking like a s**tting dog and in the middle of his blue aired swearfest shot at the rabbit and hit it on the arse. The rabbit just sat there and took it like more of a man than the punter, it then calmly and slowly wandered off leaving the punter still stood and dazed to the point i had to help him off the field.

Sounds like one for the grandkids!

[Rustyneedle uk]

lol bump this thread bod pictures a great :)

[Titchgamer]

First time ive seen this thread.

Bloody funny! :D

[__KENDY__]

This was taken of me at YPC June 2009 and look there is 20-20 i think hiding, so you see its quite easy to mistake players for animals.


http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/1966/monkeypaintball.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/534/monkeypaintball.jpg/)

[20 : 20]

the cheek of it craig. . . .

[__KENDY__]

lol i was wondering when you would clock this.