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At the arena where I work, the walls are not floor-to-ceiling walls because the roof is around 20 foot off the ground, plus we have "smoke" generators around the arena which fog up the air, making it so people can see the lasers.
These walls are around 13ft or so in height, to discourage people from trying to climb over them as a shortcut. As a precaution, we have clearly written on our house rules that players are NOT to climb on the equipment, both for their own safety, plus the more simple fact that our vests cost around $5000 a piece.
So if someone was to tumble off and land on their back or face, chances are they would shatter that particular part, rendering the entire unit useless - not to mention Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) would have a field day with it and potentially close us down until we 'remedied' the issue - likely by having to build the walls right to the ceilings, meaning we would no longer be able to use our smoke generators and would have to install a ton of new light fixtures to allow for the change in light flow.
So, obviously, I was extremely surprised when a couple of people came out and told me that someone was sitting on top of one of the wall partitions, shooting at people from on top of the wall. I snuck in and sure enough, I found him where they said - not on one of the corners, where he would have at least had 2 sections of wall supporting him from falling, but on one of the main corridor walls, where he had maybe 4 or 5 inches of wood sitting under his ass, if he leaned forward or backward too much, he WOULD have gone toppling off and broken something.
Needless to say, I told him to get the HELL off the wall and out of the arena. The second that he was outside, I took his suit from him and promptly told him that he was hereby BANNED from our arena for not heeding our rules and not to come back for a minimum of 2 years (I would have liked to permaban him, but the boss has fairly firm rules set down, though I DID say that if I caught him on the premises again I would get a trespass order taken out on him.)
He then had the nerve to want the balance of his entry fee back for the time he would not get to play. I simply laughed and said "Like hell, buddy. If you had fallen off the wall and broken our suit, would you have given US the $5000 we would need to fork out for a new suit? I am guessing not, unless we took you to court over it. So get out."
The guy then had the balls to phone the next day and complain when the big boss was around, the boss simply laughed and said "He actually told me about your antics last night, you are lucky he didn't ban you permanently - I would have!" and hung up on the guy.
These walls are around 13ft or so in height, to discourage people from trying to climb over them as a shortcut. As a precaution, we have clearly written on our house rules that players are NOT to climb on the equipment, both for their own safety, plus the more simple fact that our vests cost around $5000 a piece.
So if someone was to tumble off and land on their back or face, chances are they would shatter that particular part, rendering the entire unit useless - not to mention Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) would have a field day with it and potentially close us down until we 'remedied' the issue - likely by having to build the walls right to the ceilings, meaning we would no longer be able to use our smoke generators and would have to install a ton of new light fixtures to allow for the change in light flow.
So, obviously, I was extremely surprised when a couple of people came out and told me that someone was sitting on top of one of the wall partitions, shooting at people from on top of the wall. I snuck in and sure enough, I found him where they said - not on one of the corners, where he would have at least had 2 sections of wall supporting him from falling, but on one of the main corridor walls, where he had maybe 4 or 5 inches of wood sitting under his ass, if he leaned forward or backward too much, he WOULD have gone toppling off and broken something.
Needless to say, I told him to get the HELL off the wall and out of the arena. The second that he was outside, I took his suit from him and promptly told him that he was hereby BANNED from our arena for not heeding our rules and not to come back for a minimum of 2 years (I would have liked to permaban him, but the boss has fairly firm rules set down, though I DID say that if I caught him on the premises again I would get a trespass order taken out on him.)
He then had the nerve to want the balance of his entry fee back for the time he would not get to play. I simply laughed and said "Like hell, buddy. If you had fallen off the wall and broken our suit, would you have given US the $5000 we would need to fork out for a new suit? I am guessing not, unless we took you to court over it. So get out."
The guy then had the balls to phone the next day and complain when the big boss was around, the boss simply laughed and said "He actually told me about your antics last night, you are lucky he didn't ban you permanently - I would have!" and hung up on the guy.
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