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Thank you MIA

  • 30-07-2010 10:13am
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    Alvin T. Grey
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    A couple of weeks ago I approached Derek in MIA with a rather unusual request.

    I asked him if he would be so kind as to donate a few hours of his time to a worthwile cause.
    I didn't have to ask twice. The staff of MIA were very accomodating and as a result 10 people who had never seen airsoft before forked over a goodly sum of money for a rather unique experience.

    The staff took me aside and showed me how to run the ARCADIA shooting system, and the following day we lined them up and had them shooting away in a nice safe indoor environment - just the thing for people from their mid 20's to 50's on a rainy Friday afternoon.

    You would be amazed (I was) at the amount of pent up aggression my co-workers have. These people have "issues" apparently. It was a joy to see a 50 year old very ladylike person grinning while dropping targets like a pro.

    Tallent can come from some very unexpected places.

    The most memorable time (it's still being talked about here) was when a certain twentysomething was working his way through a virtual office.
    I had informed him that there would be targets that you can engage, and ones you shouldn't, and just because you saw a similar target before, don't assume it's the same one repeated. - It's often not........:(

    Anyway the conversation went something like this:
    C. "HEADSHOT"!!
    Me. "Nice one".
    C. "It was too easy, can we make this harder"?
    Me. "You just killed an innocent".
    C. "He was holding a gun"
    Me. "That was a puppy"
    At this stage C. is going slightly red........
    C." It looked like a gun".
    Me "It was a puppy"
    C. "IT WAS BIG AND BLACK!!"
    Me "It was a big black.....Puppy"
    C. "It wasn't"
    Me "P-U-P-P-Y - You killed a puppy. You just whacked Lassie. Admit it, you slotted Scooby-doo. "
    C."Bugger".

    The irony?
    The charity that all of the money went to?

    Northwest Pet Rescue.

    And on behalf of same I would like to take this oppertunity to publicly thank Derek and the staff of MIA for donating their time and resources to such a wothy cause.

    We raised over €300 in that afternoon. It might not sound like much, but to us it's our phones for a month. Or it's our feed bill for a week. Its enough to get 10 puppies innoculated. It's our fuel bill for a month. It's a group of volunteers not standing in the rain for a few hours. And when every penny counts, 30,000 of them come in very handy.

    Thank you once again MIA.


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