Breast implants can pose a risk for women—especially if they’re playing paintball.
That’s what happened to a British woman when her breast implant reportedly exploded during a round of paintball when she was hit in the chest, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The Times reports that paintballs can hit as fast as 190 miles per hour and UK Paintball, the center where the woman played the game, is “respectfully asking that any ladies with surgical breast implants notify our team at the time of booking.”
"You will be given special information on the dangers of paintballing with enhanced boobs and asked to sign a disclaimer,” the statement read. "You will also be issued with extra padding to protect your implants while paintballing."
The unnamed woman, 26, from Croydon, a suburb of London, was hit at close range during the game last month, the Daily Mail reports. She didn’t see a doctor until two days later who told her about the damage to her breast implant.
A spokesman for UK Paintball said that they never expected such a hazard to happen to a woman with breast implants.
“Part of the fun of paintball is that it hurts a bit when you get shot but in all the years we’ve been going we’ve never seen an incident like this,” he told the Daily Mail. “It came as a real surprise to hear that a woman had her implant burst at one of our centers and whilst she’s going to make a full recovery, we want to ensure nothing like this happens ever again.”
