Irish Daily Star Article - More airsoft bashing

CrazyRabbit

The only thing that's gonna stop this crap is an official repremand from the Office of the Press Ombudsman. That or a lawsuit.

http://www.presscouncil.ie/v1/portal.php?content=complaints.php

Masada

jezz thats a big write up., i wonder how they figure there "deadly"?

kdouglas

another jumped up article full of crap to be honest, thankfully it decided to focus a little bit on the other dodgy dealings going on in the red cow market, but anyone here can tell just by looking at the picture of that shotgun that it's a cheap piece of crap and could no more leave a mark on your skin that fire 50 metres or be "deadly" to anyone or thing

Hivemind: a standard "do some ****ing research you gimps" reply should do

Witcher

oh my god! do juniour infants write these or what?


"air guns" have they not got it into their thick skulls that they are called

AIRSOFT! ahhhhh:mad:

and then they go onto say they bought jumpers!!:mad: jesus please save

me from the daily star idiots! please!!!


i just feel weak, i cant find words to describe their stupidity!

hopefully the IAA will give an INTELLIGENT (a word the daily star journo's

need to learn!) and constructive reply!


i can only leave the future of irish intellligence in their hands!

if your out there please save me hivemind!!!!:D


Edit: an m47 is hardly SUPER ACCURATE by any standards! did they test this you can bet your

ar*e they didnt! just believe evrything on the box!


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Hivemind187

To be honest, there isnt that much in the article that isnt hyperbole or an outright fabrication.

I'll talk to the committee and see if it is worth responding to (the Star have a habit of ignoring us and of all kinds of other dodgy dealing such as plagarism).

Edit: Having read your comments I will of course put something together. Its unbelieveable how ignorant some individuals can be.

Jimbo

Looks like they were just tring to fill a couple of pages. Typical Tabloid Crap

Masada

its probably best to tell someone like hivemind about it and not bother with it in here to be honest., its so easy to get info on airsoft in ireland that they must know about this forum, they have probably got a lot of their sensationalist ideas from reading what people are saying about the previous articles on here., airguns sounds more realistic that air"soft" so they obviously intend to make it sound worse.,

Spetzcong

At least the local TD's comment was just that these 'guns' should be regulated and not sold to kids at markets like that. While I know we'd probably prefer not to have to jump through hoops like RS people do for their sport, I think we'd all agree that airsofts should only be sold to adults (or with parental consent) by responsible retailers.

Witcher

Spetzcong wrote: »

I think we'd all agree that airsofts should only be sold to adults (or with parental consent) by responsible retailers.

i second that!




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Dave!

Morons...

ScumLord

Why did you start a thread a picture of a used piece of toilet paper?

major sims

well said

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Mweelrea

What more can you expect from a tabloid than made up rubbish:rolleyes:

kdouglas

lads, as much as we all dislike the star, please be careful what you say about the newspaper itself or their reporters and only comment on the article itself

Stercus Accidit

I think they are right lads.

There may well be a "bright light" with that thing which could fry you to the bone.

And the "laser" could cut you in two, ever see gold finger eh?

Dont get me started on the m17b mega blaster, you could whack someone over the head with that pretty hard, (before it broke).

And I dont like the look of that styrofoam box it comes in, not very environmentally safe....

How much does a star journo earn anyway? I mean, I have about ten minutes a day spent on the bog wasted looking at the floor, when I could be writing articles like this! Ban cats! they scratch and smell....

Dave!

lol

Fuzzytrooper

A word of caution, we better make sure we don't get a persecution complex where its airsoft vs the world and we think that everyone is out to get airsoft banned. Otherwise it could end up causing more trouble for the sport. As long as responses are handled the same way as the lads did on the Joe Duffy show we should be ok. The press bashing on the other hand isn't likely to endear us to them.

Dave!

TBH I don't see the Star ever warming to us, but point taken none the less.

Lemming

DaveMcG wrote: »

TBH I don't see the Star ever warming to us

The Star will 'warm' to us whenever it is expedient for them to do so. Just as expedient as it might be for them to suddenly develop a severe case of 'omfuxx0ringGodkwontsomeonepleasethinkofthechildren?!!!kthxbye" (as is the case right now). And in any case they are not renowned for indepth, impartial, honest, integrity-oriented journalism and never have been.

Fallschirmjager

maybe me means deadly as a attributive adjective...as in 'zeajusus, deadly gun, tha'

Jimbo

Irish Daily Star Contact Form Here if anyone wants to let our friends know how great the article was

kdouglas

Best not to respond to the Star individually, let the IAA send a single properly drafted response