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Article: What a blast
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- August 30, 2009
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There's a battle raging in these Botetourt County hills.
Men in combat fatigues are sprawled behind piles of logs and in
makeshift bunkers, aiming their rifles. There is a constant pop pop
pop of small arms fire. Every now and then, someone screams:
"I'm hit!"
The ground turns slowly red.
And yellow. And blue.
Welcome to Cull Holler Paintball.
Every couple of Sundays, a dozen or so guys load up their guns,
which are called "markers" in politically correct paintball
parlance, descend into this little valley, choose a bunker -- and
smack the living daylights out of one another with spattered paint.
What is paintball? Paintball is many things. It is serious and
silly, frightening ...