# Tell me About Police Paint Guns **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 28, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-police-paint-guns/916607 "2020-07-28T15:04:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-police-paint-guns/916607/7 "2020-07-28T20:39:01Z")
> [@md-2000](#): > > I talked to some guys who worked a paintball arcade in a small town. they didn’t know what they were getting into, but apparently their job was to run from cover to cover while people tried to hit them with paintballs from 50 feet or more. (OK, not the easiest way to make money). Back when I lived in the Midwest near the edge of suburbia, a local farmer farther out had a brilliant(!!) idea for a Halloween moneymaker. It was a hayride where everyone was given paintball guns and the convoy of hay wagons was repeatedly attacked by zombie hordes that needed shootin’ while the convoy wended through the mostly harvested cornfields. Being one of the zombies was a bad job. Or so I’m told by a teen who lived down the street from me and did it one season. Just one. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-police-paint-guns/916607)._