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In what doesn't seem like the brightest idea in urban planning, a Staten Island prison may be located too close to a facility where combatants pay a fee to simulate wartime conditions and chase each other around while shooting guns at one another—paintball guns that is. Now a prisoner at Arthur Kill Correctional Facility is suing the paintball facility for $3 million after he claims one splattery orange bullet sailed out of the paintball complex, over the wall of the prison and nailed him in the face while he was playing basketball. A medical report says that Steve McMillan's left eye was swollen and he complained of blurred vision, that "his hands, face and clothes were splattered with orange paint although none, apparently, was in his eye." But the owner of the paintball center told the SI Advance, "My gut instinct is it sounds like a fraudulent case. I don't think the [paint]balls can go that far." The paper also reports his claims that "the paintball fields are encased in woods, while the prison basketball court doesn't abut the fence alongside his center."

A car at the end of a commuter rail almost tried to make the leap for New Jersey when a Staten Island Railway train derailed at the end of its line as it approached Arthur Kill in Tottenville. No one was injured and New York City Transit is still investigating the cause of what led to the train going through the "bumper block" after its 40-minute trip from the ferry terminal at around 6:30 a.m. yesterday morning. That investigation requires that the crew of the train must all undergo mandatory drug and alcohol testing. Onlookers were surprised at just how close the train came to the narrow strip of water that separates the island from New Jersey. “Holy smokes, you have to be going pretty fast to go this far,” one commuter remarked to the Times. This was the first deraliment since last year for the Staten Island, which began running in 1860—over 40 years before the subway's arrival.