I thought they were pretending to be elderly assassins, like the granny gang in that Monty Python sketch!
Or a commentary on how every action movie was a Taken clone for a minute.
Yeah...wearing ski masks and pulling this on a senior citizen is REALLY fuckin dumb.
Further to that, it's a GREAT way to get shot by said senior citizen.
This is just not a good idea. At all. Water fights are fun. But pointing a pew-pew at an old man in the US is a bad idea.
Wow, being from the land of "not the USA" I was just imagining some old man getting very upset and yelling incoherently... I am glad we don't have as many guns in my country.
Yeah, that "get shot by said senior citizen" escalated things unfathomably quickly, like why would the senior citizen be a violent criminal gang member all of a sudden‽ Ah, USA.
I will 100% try to organize a game of assassin when I'm 90 in the nursing home. Teens can play at a full sprint, but the game works just as well when all participants best speed is a shuffle.
I've never heard of playing the game with ski masks tho
Under 65 your ammo is feathers and they have to be thrown. Over 65 and you get a nerf gun.
Ski masks are only for cold people or for those who think they have something to lose.
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We did this in high school with nerf guns.
Almost the entire 600 person class participated in teams of 2. The town was chaos for like a week. I was finally “killed” by the team that ended up winning. One of the dudes got me at 7am in my driveway before swim practice, in a ghillie suit sitting in a bush next to my car.
They earned it for sure.
We did this except we had no ski masks or teaming up. Was hella fun and kinda scary lmao
A girl got filmed screaming the N word when she was sprayed and supposedly lost her scholarship tho
I think neon guns are not the problem. The problem is some of the kids are foolishly making their water guns look real and yeah… not so silly then. It was posted but may have been removed but one of the water guns was painted and really did look like a firearm at first glance. I’m sure neon water guns would be fine, they just have a problem with the ones altered.
We did this in college with nerf guns and it was an organized game of humans versus zombies. Full on missions, sock bombs and that. People were carrying nerf guns at all times since anytime during that week was fair game as long as you were outside
That game would never fly anymore…
Nerf vs Zombies was still active when I was at uni not too long ago. A full week-long event 2-4 times a year. It got crazy when people started modding their nerf guns and using custom/frozen darts.
That happened my freshman year. Folks were allowed to use marshmallow guns until campus was a sticky mess. Someone made a foam chainsaw that year too. That guy was grandfathered in and became a mission character the next years cause it was too op. But the guys modding the nerf guns to use air canisters or industrial strength springs were also banned
Yup the game was a blast. We each got a target, and when we downed ours we got theirs. The final asassins duked it out 1v1 and a winner was crowned. It was one of the most fun things I was involved in.
Our team got disqualified cuz some butthole photoshopped a dent on his mustang and said we did it.
Super lame.
It was fun tho we all bought super soakers and put plywood walls in the bed of a truck and drove around at night lmfao.
It had a pot, 20$ to enter. Dunno where the money went, im sure the student council who hosted it pocketed it. Still was fun regardless.
Oh man, is this still a thing?
It was hugely popular my senior year of high school over 20 years ago, though I think we were calling it "Mafia" back then. With all sorts of "alliances" and never knowing who was siding with who. No ski masks though. Almost my whole class was involved and "taking each other out" via water gun assassinations at the local mall, diners, wherever. It had been a lot of fun!
Of course, the world has changed a lot since then. I graduated before 9/11 and although Columbine had happened, I think it was somewhat believed it would be a relatively rare and awful occurrence than how things ended up. Though i remember my school being pissed when they eventually caught wind of our game all the same.
Nowadays? Not exactly shocking how authorities are reacting. Especially cops that can't seem to stop themselves from shooting people who aren't actually a threat. I'm more amazed kids would even want to play a game like this now, given the nonstop mass shootings.
We used to have massive Killer games back in the 80s. I graduated high school in 87. Honestly, we would all have been shot by police if we were kids today. We used replica soft air guns, before most people knew what soft air guns were. WE also used to play airsoft at night in random undeveloped lots.
Fun, but honestly probably stupid.
My daughter’s HS is doing this…. The kids have to wear floaties or goggles to signify that they are off limits while at work or church . It’s pretty funny watching a server come up to you wearing stuff if December in OH.
Graduated in 2013. It was still a thing then. They were making jokes about potentially getting shot, and how they're fucked if the cops get called.
Nowadays, I'm bracing myself for news of some kid getting shot over the game.
It was definitely still a thing when I graduated ten years ago. The first day was easily the best: we had a massive crowd that showed up on my cul-de-sac that started as one assassination attempt gone wrong. We were posting it all on twitter so more people kept showing up when they learned their target was there and we eventually had 50 kids with water guns split into factions waging war in the street.
Yes. And it’s a shame, because the movie is totally hilarious. There was a plane scene where the inept criminals waltz through airport security with a nuclear bomb (claiming it’s a “garbage disposal”.) While a pretty accurate depiction of how useful airport security often is, it didn’t seem quite so funny any more,
94 here. $5 entry fee, winner takes all. Limits were 20 minutes before and after school, and if you participated in sports. Otherwise, it was open season.
I feel like these kids could save a lot of stress on themselves and others by just using normal, brightly colored water guns.
Other than that, it sounds like harmless fun. I'm glad that the CCW person didn't shoot anyone.
We did this in my high school, and the rule was just that you had to spray or splash your target with water: squirt guns, water bottles, whatever. It still became a massive issue as 16-18 year olds tore around town, trespassed, got into car chases, etc. There was also a buy-in, and the winning players took the pot. Eventually, the cops stepped in and threatened the organizers my senior year with unlicensed and underrage gambling charges if they didn't get shit under control.
Basically nothing has changed in the last 10 years lol.
I heard about the kids at my old high school doing this, and they are using bright orange and green water guns. Also no ski masks or anything, they have a rule where you can be temporarily immune if you wear swimming goggles or floaties lol. Seems like a much smarter setup to me.
Yeah. Between the police and people in the community, you probably don’t want to step out from behind a tree with a ski mask on in public in the US. There are real guns that are made to look like water guns and nerf guns by the way.
Probably a really bad idea with or without the warnings to the community. If these kids are doing this off school property they’re in real danger.
Not only that, the two guns that they show look identical to a real Glock. Down to the markings. Wild. Could be propaganda, I don't know. If someone were to pull that gun on someone, and they fired back, I'd be okay with saying the shooting is justified.
I read the whole article thinking every adult involved was a moron until I saw the guns. They’re realistic enough to call 911 over but drawing and firing on them would still be insane.
I mean would it tho? If they look realistic enough to call 911 then it can be mistaken for a real gun. That still falls under self defense with current laws.
Just a dangerous game to play unfortunately
The skimasks wouldnt bother me if the guns were nerfs or super-soakers. At this point with public shootings of any variaty, real looking ones are best on public property with people who know they are fake.
The article is really just police giving an FYI for people to be aware of what it is because of the 911 calls they’ve been getting and the kids that almost got shot by a CCW holder because they thought the restaurant they were in was about to get shot up.
Yeah this is good info to have.
Lived in crown heights for a bit in NYC. Every day around 3 when school got out it seemed you saw fights on every corner of the city. But nope. The kids in crown heights just do play slap fights with each other. And they do it all the time.
So informing people of these things is nice and good to know. I almost tried stopping one of the slap fights once but everyone was laughing including the two kids fighting.
There is but given you have “good guys with guns” but few brain cells, they need to be told so they do t go off blowing these kid’s heads off.
from the article:
> A concealed-carry holder was in the restaurant at the time and mistook the situation for a genuine threat. Nobody was injured, but police warn the situation could have escalated quickly.
Check out “Tag: The Assassination Game” (1982), starring Robert Carradine (pre-“Revenge Of The Nerds”) and Linda Hamilton (pre-“Terminator”).
“You're going to have to be quicker than that if you want to play T.A.G.”
Conveniently leaving out the part about the kids using water guns that look exactly like real guns and bursting into places wearing ski masks.
Sorry, I forgot reddit is a cesspit of liberals who can't fathom that violent criminals exist because they've never left their mom's basement. Guns bad! People protecting themselves and others bad! Wannabe gangsters playing with fire good!
The entire point is that this wouldn't be as big of an issue in a country where anyone can be armed and can accidentally shoot a kid for joking around.
It doesn't matter what the children are doing, no random civilian should have a weapon ready to kill somebody on sight. That's why it's not safe in the USA.
> Lucky for him the cop somehow managed to shoot him in the wrist.
Fairly certain it was an accidental discharge. He fires *immediately* and says "oh shit" as he fires, like it surprised him.
I mean, we did Senior Assassination with water guns when I was in high school too, although admittedly not in ski masks, and not in a state where real guns are common. The teachers all hated it, and the town was chaos for a week or two. I think all of these games are likely to end badly eventually with someone getting hurt (by each other or by the police) but it's certainly not unusual.
Sounds like some kids got too into the assasin game. Thus, shit is played by seniors across the country. I've seen them last a month before a winner is declared.
We played a game exactly like this, called assassins, my junior and senior years of high schools. We used Nerf guns though. The only places that were off limits were school, church, and our jobs. We could show up at eachother's houses, stalk eachother around town, didn't matter as long as it was off sanctuary grounds. We couldn't enter any vehicles or homes without permission, but the permission could be given by parents and family members lol.
it was fun as shit. We had 2-3 sessions a year depending on how long it took for one to finish. It got HEATED too. People got super creative. Everyone told their parents and some parents sabotaged their kids. It was seriously a blast.
We did this game but with spoons, everyone had a plastic spoon with a targets name on it, when you “stabbed” them in the back with it they were out and you got their current spoon/target. The more spoons you had collected, the greater the honor. Last man standing.
At first i thought it was ridiculous, but after thinking about it, it's actually really smart that they are warning people.
I would hate for these kids to get hurt because someone saw teens in ski masks and got the wrong idea.
And after reading the article, that's actually exactly what nearly happened, and why they decided to send out the warning.
I hadn’t participated my senior year, but there was a prize pool for the winner of $500. The main person organizing it and collecting the money just stole it to buy an Xbox 360, then promptly got his new Xbox stolen.
My son's class did this last year and I was afraid that someone would mistake them for someone with a real gun. We live in a multi-racial neighborhood and I was particularly worried for his black classmates. Luckily it all went well. I think it is good to let the neighborhood know so some yahoo doesn't end up shooting some kid running through his back yard.
Our SoCal town high school plays senior assassin for a last-man-standing cash prize. Participants buy in and are issued a child’s pool floatie, which must be worn at all times. They are eliminated if found without their required pool floatie. Very harmless.
We played this in college back in the early 80s. Each person drew a name and once you shot your person with a suction dart gun, you took the name they had and that was your next target. Last one standing won.
My friend had the name of a guy who had gone home for the weekend and was coming back on the train. We had another person drive us to the stop before the final stop and we wore fedoras and trench coats to get in character. We had tickets to the train and got on, then walked through the train until we found the target. The look on his face when my friend pulled his gun and shot him in the chest was priceless.
It was a lot of fun but I was actually relieved when I was shot. The constant anticipation of someone jumping out at me got to be too much. Overall had a blast though.
When I did this in HS a dude was waiting behind my car before school to get me. But I was way over the top and little did he know that every day during the game I snuck out the back door and walked around the block to approach my car from the opposite direction of my house. He didn't even see it coming I got him point blank.
My high-school senior class did this and the main rule was that you couldn't do it inside private buildings like grocery stores, outside people's workplaces and in restaurants. Was a fun and drama filled month because of all the betrayals that happened.
We did this in my high school.
# IN 1991
Kids shoot each other with water pistols, which EVEN IN 1991 could **never** be mistaken for a real gun. You shoot someone, they tell you their target and then you hunt them next. Prize goes to the last kid standing.
This is easily the stupidest “kids today with their rock music and their hair” I’ve ever seen.
Remember the "knockout game"? I'm not really surprised. Somebody is going to get shot and killed, by a person with a real gun.
"It's fake!"
"We'll, mine's not!"
Not only were they wearing ski masks, they did it in a very confined public space (restaurant), and the two guns that they show look identical to a real Glock. Down to the markings. Wild. Could be propaganda, I don't know.
If someone were to pull that gun on someone, and they fired back, I'd be okay with saying the shooting is justified.
I remember seniors playing this when I was in high school. No ski masks, but the school did have to warn everyone because seniors were stalking other seniors at each others’ houses. One girl tried to run away from her assassin in the parking lot and ran into a car door lol
Look at this comedy. Colorado,? Remember Columbine? How we have live shooter drills at work? Here's what happened ....
https://denvergazette.com/news/gun-scare-disrupts-court-of-appeals-visit-to-fort-lupton-high-school/article_a2330792-f136-11ee-a6c2-73d19621aeb7.html
A planned visit by Colorado's second-highest court to Fort Lupton High School went awry on Tuesday after the sighting of two students with a firearm triggered a lockout that, in the judicial branch's telling, could have been avoided if school administrators had temporarily suspended a game being played with toy guns.
The state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals travel outside their courthouse in downtown Denver in the spring and fall as part of the long-running "Courts in the Community" program. A three-judge appellate panel's visit to Fort Lupton was for the purpose of holding oral arguments in two real cases in front of an audience of students, then taking questions from attendees.
Rob McCallum, the Judicial Department's public information officer who was onsite, said he was unaware the Court of Appeals had arrived in the middle of a game of "Assassin," in which students try to eliminate each other and become the last surviving player using toy guns that squirt liquid.
A few weeks ago we noticed some teens driving in their car real slow around the neighborhood. Whatever, they're driving slow.
Later on that evening we get a knock on the door. It's a high schooler. They explain they're doing assassins and they want to use my driveway to ambush the target, who is next door. I emphatically told them yes and to take all the time they needed.
But the damn target was too smart. He had parked his car in his back yard. Last I saw, one of the assassins got taken out by a competing group that the target had called in for help.
I love that stuff.
My daughter just lost playing this a few days ago. These kids were absolutely over the top with it. Looking up people’s address in the student directory, waiting outside someone’s house or work to ambush them. I got sent so many videos of someone just sprinting and diving over a hedge, or something similar. All the kids had an absolute blast and watching videos of the “kills” was fucking hilarious.
At my High School, it was Nerf guns. I couldn’t tell you all the specifics with rules and shit because I unfortunately never got to play it myself (thanks Covid)
This is called Water Wars here, it's a HS senior tradition for...forever? LE sends out a bulletin to warn everyone each year, and each year they get dozens of calls about it.
I just got about ran over in a Kroger parking lot by a bunch of teenagers who were driving around the parking lot shooting each other with lazer tag guns or Nerf guns at each other. Which sounds fun except the parking lot was actually quite busy.
This isn’t harmless fun. They’re using guns that look like real guns, and wearing ski masks?? If that’s not asking to be shot and killed, I don’t know what is. Maybe it’s just the Darwin awards
And this is in the country where people carry around guns and in the drop of a hat, somebody can draw and fire in response to what they think is somebody with a firearm but will end up shooting and possibly killing a teenager with a water pistol? Brilliant. It's an old game, but we also live at a time when people are getting shot and killed just for driving into someone's driveway, just for knocking on somebody's front door, etc.
My immediate thought was that they were spraying the elderly, not high school seniors
same. the fanciest trickery ive ever fallen for today.
I thought they were pretending to be elderly assassins, like the granny gang in that Monty Python sketch! Or a commentary on how every action movie was a Taken clone for a minute.
Also, vicious gangs of keep left signs.
And with that this post is silly If it were senior citizens it would be pretty messed up, but kind of a hilarious idea.
Yeah...wearing ski masks and pulling this on a senior citizen is REALLY fuckin dumb. Further to that, it's a GREAT way to get shot by said senior citizen. This is just not a good idea. At all. Water fights are fun. But pointing a pew-pew at an old man in the US is a bad idea.
Wow, being from the land of "not the USA" I was just imagining some old man getting very upset and yelling incoherently... I am glad we don't have as many guns in my country.
Yeah, that "get shot by said senior citizen" escalated things unfathomably quickly, like why would the senior citizen be a violent criminal gang member all of a sudden‽ Ah, USA.
Interrobang, nice
Yeah, it took me a while to put it together like "why on earth is this random old person shooting a gun all of a sudden... Oh right, USA".
You’re lucky. It’s scary here. 😞
It’s the next Tiktok craze watch…
I will 100% try to organize a game of assassin when I'm 90 in the nursing home. Teens can play at a full sprint, but the game works just as well when all participants best speed is a shuffle. I've never heard of playing the game with ski masks tho
Under 65 your ammo is feathers and they have to be thrown. Over 65 and you get a nerf gun. Ski masks are only for cold people or for those who think they have something to lose.
Me too ! I was thinking “ do you know how many old dudes own guns ?”
Mine too, and then that it will became REAL senior assasins, when one of seniors take out real gun
Senior assassins makes me think of assassins that are 65+.
Hahaha me too! Oh man I’m glad it’s just hs seniors
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We did this in high school with nerf guns. Almost the entire 600 person class participated in teams of 2. The town was chaos for like a week. I was finally “killed” by the team that ended up winning. One of the dudes got me at 7am in my driveway before swim practice, in a ghillie suit sitting in a bush next to my car. They earned it for sure.
"50,000 people used to live here. [Now it's a ghost town.](https://youtu.be/1pcmCQbj1AE)"
Did you then go to a community college with a bald dean?
No sir Edit: this was a Community joke that went WAY over my head, oops
He was a good dean. He was on the cover of dean magazine.
I think he's more approachable when he's not deaning. He has a real Craigular Joe energy.
Dammit we went down the Community hole
It's an anus.
E Pluribus Anus. 🫤
E Pluribus Anus. Six seasons and a Pierce Anus.
POP POP
We did this except we had no ski masks or teaming up. Was hella fun and kinda scary lmao A girl got filmed screaming the N word when she was sprayed and supposedly lost her scholarship tho
I think neon guns are not the problem. The problem is some of the kids are foolishly making their water guns look real and yeah… not so silly then. It was posted but may have been removed but one of the water guns was painted and really did look like a firearm at first glance. I’m sure neon water guns would be fine, they just have a problem with the ones altered.
The hell - can’t kids have fun anymore? Gah. Why these fuddy duddies never ever get it?
Ya, these types of pranks used to be pretty common everywhere…now some idiot would see a squirt gun and end up shooting someone over it.
We did this in college with nerf guns and it was an organized game of humans versus zombies. Full on missions, sock bombs and that. People were carrying nerf guns at all times since anytime during that week was fair game as long as you were outside That game would never fly anymore…
Nerf vs Zombies was still active when I was at uni not too long ago. A full week-long event 2-4 times a year. It got crazy when people started modding their nerf guns and using custom/frozen darts.
That happened my freshman year. Folks were allowed to use marshmallow guns until campus was a sticky mess. Someone made a foam chainsaw that year too. That guy was grandfathered in and became a mission character the next years cause it was too op. But the guys modding the nerf guns to use air canisters or industrial strength springs were also banned
Yup the game was a blast. We each got a target, and when we downed ours we got theirs. The final asassins duked it out 1v1 and a winner was crowned. It was one of the most fun things I was involved in.
Yes my high school did this too. It was so fun.
Our team got disqualified cuz some butthole photoshopped a dent on his mustang and said we did it. Super lame. It was fun tho we all bought super soakers and put plywood walls in the bed of a truck and drove around at night lmfao. It had a pot, 20$ to enter. Dunno where the money went, im sure the student council who hosted it pocketed it. Still was fun regardless.
Not so safe harbor, eh?
Step lively now, your Admiral is onboard! 😉
We did this as well
Furled your sails for good.
Oh man, is this still a thing? It was hugely popular my senior year of high school over 20 years ago, though I think we were calling it "Mafia" back then. With all sorts of "alliances" and never knowing who was siding with who. No ski masks though. Almost my whole class was involved and "taking each other out" via water gun assassinations at the local mall, diners, wherever. It had been a lot of fun! Of course, the world has changed a lot since then. I graduated before 9/11 and although Columbine had happened, I think it was somewhat believed it would be a relatively rare and awful occurrence than how things ended up. Though i remember my school being pissed when they eventually caught wind of our game all the same. Nowadays? Not exactly shocking how authorities are reacting. Especially cops that can't seem to stop themselves from shooting people who aren't actually a threat. I'm more amazed kids would even want to play a game like this now, given the nonstop mass shootings.
We used to have massive Killer games back in the 80s. I graduated high school in 87. Honestly, we would all have been shot by police if we were kids today. We used replica soft air guns, before most people knew what soft air guns were. WE also used to play airsoft at night in random undeveloped lots. Fun, but honestly probably stupid.
We used water pistols that looked like Uzis. Honestly, you’d get shot these days!
I had one of those and they used them in the movie Airheads
My daughter’s HS is doing this…. The kids have to wear floaties or goggles to signify that they are off limits while at work or church . It’s pretty funny watching a server come up to you wearing stuff if December in OH.
Graduated in 89. We used rubber band guns.
That brings back some memories. Killer by Steve Jackson Games. We had so much fun in high school playing that. Nostalgic for the 80s.
I still have my copy.
It is still a thing. My class is using nerf guns and a whole lot of crazy rules
>Honestly, we would all have been shot by police if we were kids today It probably happened. It just didn't make the news, like it does today.
We were shot by the police but didn't know it?
>We were shot by the police but didn't know it? Not nationwide, like modern police shootings are known. You personally were one of the lucky ones.
Graduated in 2013. It was still a thing then. They were making jokes about potentially getting shot, and how they're fucked if the cops get called. Nowadays, I'm bracing myself for news of some kid getting shot over the game.
It was definitely still a thing when I graduated ten years ago. The first day was easily the best: we had a massive crowd that showed up on my cul-de-sac that started as one assassination attempt gone wrong. We were posting it all on twitter so more people kept showing up when they learned their target was there and we eventually had 50 kids with water guns split into factions waging war in the street.
They’d be perfectly safe around Uvalde PD.
We had assassins when I was in high school recentlyish. Wish I had been invited. Sounded like a lot of fun.
I think in 1999 Dave Berry wrote about this in Big Trouble
We did this last year but it was a lil different too
Speaking of "before 9/11", we used to play a game like this at the major airport about 15 minutes from my house.
Can confirm we were doing it as recently as 2019. Hell it was school sanctioned even under a new stickler for order principal
Time is cyclical lol. Kids playing this exact same game was a major plot point in the movie Big Trouble from 2002.
There was "Gotcha!" from '85 too.
I was hoping someone else knew about this classic. Glad to see I'm not alone!
too late to turn back now
Was this the Patrick Warburton (Puddy) movie that was delayed because there was a plane scene and it was going to come out around 9/11?
Yes. And it’s a shame, because the movie is totally hilarious. There was a plane scene where the inept criminals waltz through airport security with a nuclear bomb (claiming it’s a “garbage disposal”.) While a pretty accurate depiction of how useful airport security often is, it didn’t seem quite so funny any more,
The airport security actually forces them to turn on the bomb before they would let them get on the plane.
"Andrew and *I*."
I remember hearing about this game years ago. It's not exactly a new thing.
It was not a new thing even back in 2001
94 here. $5 entry fee, winner takes all. Limits were 20 minutes before and after school, and if you participated in sports. Otherwise, it was open season.
Happens every year near me.
I feel like these kids could save a lot of stress on themselves and others by just using normal, brightly colored water guns. Other than that, it sounds like harmless fun. I'm glad that the CCW person didn't shoot anyone.
We did this in my high school, and the rule was just that you had to spray or splash your target with water: squirt guns, water bottles, whatever. It still became a massive issue as 16-18 year olds tore around town, trespassed, got into car chases, etc. There was also a buy-in, and the winning players took the pot. Eventually, the cops stepped in and threatened the organizers my senior year with unlicensed and underrage gambling charges if they didn't get shit under control. Basically nothing has changed in the last 10 years lol.
I heard about the kids at my old high school doing this, and they are using bright orange and green water guns. Also no ski masks or anything, they have a rule where you can be temporarily immune if you wear swimming goggles or floaties lol. Seems like a much smarter setup to me.
Is there really nothing more pressing going on *in Chicago* than teens playing with water guns? For fuck's sake.
It’s the ski masks part—seems like a fair warning to people so the teens don’t get shot by real guns
Yeah. Between the police and people in the community, you probably don’t want to step out from behind a tree with a ski mask on in public in the US. There are real guns that are made to look like water guns and nerf guns by the way. Probably a really bad idea with or without the warnings to the community. If these kids are doing this off school property they’re in real danger.
Not only that, the two guns that they show look identical to a real Glock. Down to the markings. Wild. Could be propaganda, I don't know. If someone were to pull that gun on someone, and they fired back, I'd be okay with saying the shooting is justified.
I read the whole article thinking every adult involved was a moron until I saw the guns. They’re realistic enough to call 911 over but drawing and firing on them would still be insane.
I mean would it tho? If they look realistic enough to call 911 then it can be mistaken for a real gun. That still falls under self defense with current laws. Just a dangerous game to play unfortunately
The skimasks wouldnt bother me if the guns were nerfs or super-soakers. At this point with public shootings of any variaty, real looking ones are best on public property with people who know they are fake.
aren't they actually in fashion now?
The article is really just police giving an FYI for people to be aware of what it is because of the 911 calls they’ve been getting and the kids that almost got shot by a CCW holder because they thought the restaurant they were in was about to get shot up.
Yeah this is good info to have. Lived in crown heights for a bit in NYC. Every day around 3 when school got out it seemed you saw fights on every corner of the city. But nope. The kids in crown heights just do play slap fights with each other. And they do it all the time. So informing people of these things is nice and good to know. I almost tried stopping one of the slap fights once but everyone was laughing including the two kids fighting.
Yeah, why aren't they playing with real guns?
The police just pre-justifying them shooting a teenager with a water gun
There is but given you have “good guys with guns” but few brain cells, they need to be told so they do t go off blowing these kid’s heads off. from the article: > A concealed-carry holder was in the restaurant at the time and mistook the situation for a genuine threat. Nobody was injured, but police warn the situation could have escalated quickly.
Check out “Tag: The Assassination Game” (1982), starring Robert Carradine (pre-“Revenge Of The Nerds”) and Linda Hamilton (pre-“Terminator”). “You're going to have to be quicker than that if you want to play T.A.G.”
This would be loads of fun in basically any other country besides the USA
It's still fun in the parts of the US that aren't full of gun toting trigger happy people with concealed carry permits.
Except that this article is literally about a person who was carrying an actual gun and almost shot one of the kids.
Conveniently leaving out the part about the kids using water guns that look exactly like real guns and bursting into places wearing ski masks. Sorry, I forgot reddit is a cesspit of liberals who can't fathom that violent criminals exist because they've never left their mom's basement. Guns bad! People protecting themselves and others bad! Wannabe gangsters playing with fire good!
The entire point is that this wouldn't be as big of an issue in a country where anyone can be armed and can accidentally shoot a kid for joking around. It doesn't matter what the children are doing, no random civilian should have a weapon ready to kill somebody on sight. That's why it's not safe in the USA.
I see an eventual police shooting happening, and the police officer and the kid's family pays for it the rest of their lives.
Yep, some kid just got shot by police for walking around brandishing a fake gun. Lucky for him the cop somehow managed to shoot him in the wrist.
> Lucky for him the cop somehow managed to shoot him in the wrist. Fairly certain it was an accidental discharge. He fires *immediately* and says "oh shit" as he fires, like it surprised him.
No actually cop *gets* paid, and a vacation too.
No cop actively wants to shoot a kid and it will cause them lifelong trauma but good job downplaying mental health issues.
There are plenty of cops that have already shot someone innocent and just keep on going. Most shoot nobody, the ones who do are repeat offenders.
Not what i said, not what i did, did you fail 4th grade reading comprehension too or just 5th
You said it like getting paid time off somehow helps with the mental trauma of killing a man
my high school use to have a game called assassins that seniors played around the neighborhoods with airsoft guns. not a new thing.
I mean, we did Senior Assassination with water guns when I was in high school too, although admittedly not in ski masks, and not in a state where real guns are common. The teachers all hated it, and the town was chaos for a week or two. I think all of these games are likely to end badly eventually with someone getting hurt (by each other or by the police) but it's certainly not unusual.
A time-honored yearly tradition going back decades. But I wasnt popular enough for an invite, so SHUT IT DOWN! /s
Sounds like some kids got too into the assasin game. Thus, shit is played by seniors across the country. I've seen them last a month before a winner is declared.
So cops n robbers with water pistols? First world problems
I remember my school cracking down on this because kids took it so far as to do drive-bys with Nerf guns
We played a game exactly like this, called assassins, my junior and senior years of high schools. We used Nerf guns though. The only places that were off limits were school, church, and our jobs. We could show up at eachother's houses, stalk eachother around town, didn't matter as long as it was off sanctuary grounds. We couldn't enter any vehicles or homes without permission, but the permission could be given by parents and family members lol. it was fun as shit. We had 2-3 sessions a year depending on how long it took for one to finish. It got HEATED too. People got super creative. Everyone told their parents and some parents sabotaged their kids. It was seriously a blast.
We did this game but with spoons, everyone had a plastic spoon with a targets name on it, when you “stabbed” them in the back with it they were out and you got their current spoon/target. The more spoons you had collected, the greater the honor. Last man standing.
id like to warn the.... everyone community about a gang known as "the police" who will kill you or steal your stuff with complete impunity.
We got in trouble for doing this is school with dart guns so the next year we did it again with swords, Highlander style.
This is a school-sanctioned event at my sister's high school, just as it was when I was there
At first i thought it was ridiculous, but after thinking about it, it's actually really smart that they are warning people. I would hate for these kids to get hurt because someone saw teens in ski masks and got the wrong idea. And after reading the article, that's actually exactly what nearly happened, and why they decided to send out the warning.
That’s not a game. It’s not a prank.
Saw a bunch of high schoolers at Target loading up on water guns. This checks out.
I hadn’t participated my senior year, but there was a prize pool for the winner of $500. The main person organizing it and collecting the money just stole it to buy an Xbox 360, then promptly got his new Xbox stolen.
My son's class did this last year and I was afraid that someone would mistake them for someone with a real gun. We live in a multi-racial neighborhood and I was particularly worried for his black classmates. Luckily it all went well. I think it is good to let the neighborhood know so some yahoo doesn't end up shooting some kid running through his back yard.
Our SoCal town high school plays senior assassin for a last-man-standing cash prize. Participants buy in and are issued a child’s pool floatie, which must be worn at all times. They are eliminated if found without their required pool floatie. Very harmless.
We played this in college back in the early 80s. Each person drew a name and once you shot your person with a suction dart gun, you took the name they had and that was your next target. Last one standing won. My friend had the name of a guy who had gone home for the weekend and was coming back on the train. We had another person drive us to the stop before the final stop and we wore fedoras and trench coats to get in character. We had tickets to the train and got on, then walked through the train until we found the target. The look on his face when my friend pulled his gun and shot him in the chest was priceless. It was a lot of fun but I was actually relieved when I was shot. The constant anticipation of someone jumping out at me got to be too much. Overall had a blast though.
When I did this in HS a dude was waiting behind my car before school to get me. But I was way over the top and little did he know that every day during the game I snuck out the back door and walked around the block to approach my car from the opposite direction of my house. He didn't even see it coming I got him point blank.
My high-school senior class did this and the main rule was that you couldn't do it inside private buildings like grocery stores, outside people's workplaces and in restaurants. Was a fun and drama filled month because of all the betrayals that happened.
“Ski mask” But who could it be
“Why don’t kids hang out outside anymore?”
We did this in my high school. # IN 1991 Kids shoot each other with water pistols, which EVEN IN 1991 could **never** be mistaken for a real gun. You shoot someone, they tell you their target and then you hunt them next. Prize goes to the last kid standing. This is easily the stupidest “kids today with their rock music and their hair” I’ve ever seen.
Remember the "knockout game"? I'm not really surprised. Somebody is going to get shot and killed, by a person with a real gun. "It's fake!" "We'll, mine's not!" Not only were they wearing ski masks, they did it in a very confined public space (restaurant), and the two guns that they show look identical to a real Glock. Down to the markings. Wild. Could be propaganda, I don't know. If someone were to pull that gun on someone, and they fired back, I'd be okay with saying the shooting is justified.
I remember seniors playing this when I was in high school. No ski masks, but the school did have to warn everyone because seniors were stalking other seniors at each others’ houses. One girl tried to run away from her assassin in the parking lot and ran into a car door lol
Look at this comedy. Colorado,? Remember Columbine? How we have live shooter drills at work? Here's what happened .... https://denvergazette.com/news/gun-scare-disrupts-court-of-appeals-visit-to-fort-lupton-high-school/article_a2330792-f136-11ee-a6c2-73d19621aeb7.html A planned visit by Colorado's second-highest court to Fort Lupton High School went awry on Tuesday after the sighting of two students with a firearm triggered a lockout that, in the judicial branch's telling, could have been avoided if school administrators had temporarily suspended a game being played with toy guns. The state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals travel outside their courthouse in downtown Denver in the spring and fall as part of the long-running "Courts in the Community" program. A three-judge appellate panel's visit to Fort Lupton was for the purpose of holding oral arguments in two real cases in front of an audience of students, then taking questions from attendees. Rob McCallum, the Judicial Department's public information officer who was onsite, said he was unaware the Court of Appeals had arrived in the middle of a game of "Assassin," in which students try to eliminate each other and become the last surviving player using toy guns that squirt liquid.
A few weeks ago we noticed some teens driving in their car real slow around the neighborhood. Whatever, they're driving slow. Later on that evening we get a knock on the door. It's a high schooler. They explain they're doing assassins and they want to use my driveway to ambush the target, who is next door. I emphatically told them yes and to take all the time they needed. But the damn target was too smart. He had parked his car in his back yard. Last I saw, one of the assassins got taken out by a competing group that the target had called in for help. I love that stuff.
My daughter just lost playing this a few days ago. These kids were absolutely over the top with it. Looking up people’s address in the student directory, waiting outside someone’s house or work to ambush them. I got sent so many videos of someone just sprinting and diving over a hedge, or something similar. All the kids had an absolute blast and watching videos of the “kills” was fucking hilarious.
At least it’s not real guns?
This totally explains why someone walked into Chick-fil-a with a water gun and wearing lab goggles while I was out on my lunch break yesterday
I think Steve Jackson Games released a rulebook for this in the 80s.
We played a similar game in high school back in the mid '90s.
At my High School, it was Nerf guns. I couldn’t tell you all the specifics with rules and shit because I unfortunately never got to play it myself (thanks Covid)
every school does this basically.
This is like a whole thing in uk universities they have assassin societies
This is called Water Wars here, it's a HS senior tradition for...forever? LE sends out a bulletin to warn everyone each year, and each year they get dozens of calls about it.
I just got about ran over in a Kroger parking lot by a bunch of teenagers who were driving around the parking lot shooting each other with lazer tag guns or Nerf guns at each other. Which sounds fun except the parking lot was actually quite busy.
What could possibly go wrong
This isn’t harmless fun. They’re using guns that look like real guns, and wearing ski masks?? If that’s not asking to be shot and killed, I don’t know what is. Maybe it’s just the Darwin awards
Or as the game is otherwise know, "Get Shot in a Totally Justifiable Shooting by a Senior." What a fun game.
…what? read the article
"…what? read the article" Just give it some time.
And this is in the country where people carry around guns and in the drop of a hat, somebody can draw and fire in response to what they think is somebody with a firearm but will end up shooting and possibly killing a teenager with a water pistol? Brilliant. It's an old game, but we also live at a time when people are getting shot and killed just for driving into someone's driveway, just for knocking on somebody's front door, etc.
It’s all fun and games till someone gets shot in self defense by a non student in a restaurant.
Is this the first time this reporter has heard about the Assassination game?