NationStates Jolt Archive

http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/assassins-stalk-london-streets-with-water-guns/2006/07/25/1153816186168.html

Londoners began a citywide role-playing game yesterday where people roam the capital to shoot each other with water pistols - and police warned that contestants might be committing criminal offences.

"StreetWars" have already taken place in New York, Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Vienna - described on their website by tournament organisers as "A three week long, 24/7, watergun assassination tournament".

As part of the game, participants are handed a manila envelope containing the details of their "target", including their name, home and work addresses, along with a picture, and are assigned with the task of "assassinating" them with a watergun.

Upon being "killed", the person who has just been eliminated from the game hands details of their target to the successful "assassin".

If it looks remotely like a real pistol, you could get shot in some states.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/assassins-stalk-london-streets-with-water-guns/2006/07/25/1153816186168.html


Looks like someone is asking to get sued by Steve Jackson Games.

I've heard of this with pillow fights!

It sounds like a lot of fun to me. What a great way to bring the community together!

So....all the water pistols'll have to be bright orange or something...

this sounds kick ass! I should start something like this in my town.

We played this in college, 25 years ago . . . and got hassled by the campus cops then, too :)

I've heard of this with pillow fights!
Now this sounds infinitely more fun! I wish we'd played it that way 25 years ago :p

We played this in college, 25 years ago . . . and got hassled by the campus cops then, too :)
Well, yeah, 'cause it's FUN! and the pigs don't want us to have fun. F--k the po-lice! (Just make sure you use an obviously fake gun so you don't get yourself shot for real.) :)

Well, yeah, 'cause it's FUN! and the pigs don't want us to have fun. F--k the po-lice! (Just make sure you use an obviously fake gun so you don't get yourself shot for real.) :)
NWA 4tw ;)

I wanna live in London!

http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/assassins-stalk-london-streets-with-water-guns/2006/07/25/1153816186168.html



If it looks remotely like a real pistol, you could get shot in some states.
hooray for not living in the us then. as if there needed to be another reason.

I've heard of this with pillow fights!
yeh, they did that a while back all over the place. i managed to miss the particular event in both jersey and edinburgh. bugger.

We played this in college, 25 years ago . . . and got hassled by the campus cops then, too :)

Hah, I get to play the same game next year at my school... and perhaps for four years after that... and maybe even more after that... :)

(We play with ordinary water bottles and strips of paper ("bombs" and "poisons"), to avoid unpleasant side effects such as possible expulsion. No Super Soakers... :( )

Something like this happened in my town when I was in highschool. The rules were different though. You shoot anyone involved, and you couldn't get shot if you were in class, naked, or driving. A few people were running around neighborhoods naked to win, but I don't think anyone was caught.

I wasn't involved. :p

Oh, we did this during my senior year of High School. The entire senior class did this.

I placed 5th.

hooray for not living in the us then. as if there needed to be another reason.

Huzzah for you not living in the US!

Huzzah for you not living in the US!

I think its a rather silly reason. This game has been played in several american cities already. Besides, everyone already knows they're in the game. England is where the police threatened players after all, not the US.

sounds like alot of fun, i should start it at my work or soemthing.

I think its a rather silly reason. This game has been played in several american cities already. Besides, everyone already knows they're in the game. England is where the police threatened players after all, not the US.

The op commented:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/assassins-stalk-london-streets-with-water-guns/2006/07/25/1153816186168.html

If it looks remotely like a real pistol, you could get shot in some states.

That is not a silly reason for not living in the US.

Oh, we did this during my senior year of High School. The entire senior class did this.

I placed 5th.

Did you get vengence on the four guys that beat you the next day?

It's just a bigger version of the game that they play in all the uni hostels here. It's a way of getting to know people apparently.

Yeah, I can see why law enforcement would not be amused by this. The whole thing with the water pistols looking like real guns is a red herring. What I would think is concerning them the most is having a whole bunch of people running around town acting suspiciously. Granted, acting suspiciously is not a crime, but it will take a great deal of attention before a particular officer would be able to assign motive to such a person's actions and move on to something that might actually be a crime.

Am I against it? No. I think there should be a national "act suspiciously" day just to be annoying.

It sounds like the only thing these reality challenged, death wish fools are missing is one of those nice little laser pointers mounted on the top of the squirt gun barrels, so as to more accurately represent the instrument of death they want to be mistakenly shot to death for carrying.

Wow. People REALLY ARE that stupid.

It sounds like the only thing these reality challenged, death wish fools are missing is one of those nice little laser pointers mounted on the top of the squirt gun barrels, so as to more accurately represent the instrument of death they want to be mistakenly shot to death for carrying.

Wait, who would have the gun to shoot them with? I thought the police didn't carry guns and the UK is a gun-free utopia.

It sounds like the only thing these reality challenged, death wish fools are missing is one of those nice little laser pointers mounted on the top of the squirt gun barrels, so as to more accurately represent the instrument of death they want to be mistakenly shot to death for carrying.


What? This has been done many times before without injury. They do not choose their targets of the street - The targets are also members of the game! They walk about the entire game knowing someone is out looking for them. Its not like they are going to whip out a .45 to keep the person from spraying them. Water bottles seem though, like they'd be better weapons.

That is not a silly reason for not living in the US.

I wasnt referring to that sentence. I was referring to claims that playing this game was somehow a setup for a darwin award. and saying "you could get shot in some states."

What? This has been done many times before without injury. They do not choose their targets of the street - The targets are also members of the game! They walk about the entire game knowing someone is out looking for them. Its not like they are going to whip out a .45 to keep the person from spraying them. Water bottles seem though, like they'd be better weapons.

I understand that. I am just saying in this post 9/11 world we have to live in, like it or not, that sneaking about in city streets "hunting" other players with lookalike "weapons" is demonstrating a profound lack of common sense. You might as well go walk onto the nearest Interstate overpass carrying a styrofoam "concrete" block and just stand there awhile looking down at the passing traffic just to see what happens.

Hey. It's just a game. Right?

Take it indoors.

Did you get vengence on the four guys that beat you the next day?
Well, the dude that got me, and who ended up winning, was a cheap ass. He came from a rich family, so he just payed a bunch of underclassmen to be his assassins and bodyguards. I tried to get him with a water balloon on a drive by while he was walking to his car, and one of those little cretins actually took it for him.

One of the little buggers got me the next day...while I was on the shitter after baseball practice...

Not cool.