10,000 applicants so far for job as human paintball pain tester

And Finally
Friday 2 January 2015 at 2:02pm

One applicant boasted that they can break a watermelon with their head. Credit: PA

A job advert for someone to have paintballs shot at them to test their impact has attracted more than 10,000 applications from across the world.

UKPaintball said it was overwhelmed at the scale of the response to its bid to employ a Human Bullet Impact Tester.

The firm, which operates at 60 locations across the UK, said it had received expressions of interest for the £40,000-a-year job from as far away as India, the United States, Canada and Croatia.

Comments in the applications included:

Prince Charles, seen here with a paintball gun, is not thought to have applied. Credit: PA

Another hopeful candidate said he was fat - so easier to aim at.

Justin Toohig, owner of UKPaintball.co.uk, said: