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London Gamers Shoot It Out In The Streets
ChocLinux writes "Gamers that take part in the Streetwars watergun assassination tournament in London could face arrest if they stalk their target in the tube. CNET has spoken to one gamer who has taken part in the tournament and disagreed that waterguns could be mistaken for firearms, as all contestants are using brightly-coloured super-soakers. He admitted that he narrowly missed being eliminated. 'Some guy tried to get me outside work, but he missed and fell off his bike,' he said. If the game isn't over by midnight on August 15, the remaining contestants will take part in a one week sudden death tournament." From the article: "You can hunt your target down any way you see fit; you can pose as a delivery person and jack them when they open the door, disguise yourself and take them out on the street, etc. If you are successful in your assassination attempt, the person you killed will give you their envelope and the person they were supposed to kill becomes your new target."
Cambridge Uni. Assassins Guild. One enterprising guy dropped a massive polystyrene block on his target's head from a balcony (it was a safe, basically).
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For those non-englanders, here is what the tube is. I had to look it up myself.
... could face punishment for acting suspiciously or inciting panic in Underground stations, which last year were the targeted by suicide bombers.
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That is really, really, cool.
Oh, um... me neither.
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Well, I'm sure the game might be, but doing it on London streets probably isn't.
The British Police have managed to shoot & kill someone for carrying a table leg (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3974461.stm); an unarmed man who they suspected of being a terrorist (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4713753.stm); and a man who was "armed" with a lighter (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1444009.stm).
There is no way on Earth that I would carry something that looked even remotely like a gun - regardless of it being highly coloured and plastic - and chase after people.
In High School, we played this game mostly amongst us marching band geeks. We used plastic sporks as weapons because water guns were a no-no in the building. Fun times getting killed at the Burger King Drive Thru...
While this sounds incredibly cool, I'm not sure the political climate in London makes for a good setting for such an endeavor right now.
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You can hardly expect everyone to feel comfortable with people running around with gun like objects creating lots of noise in public areas.
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This is going to make me sound like quite the old curmudgeon, but...
Playing games with water pistols in a public place, with other people around (who more than likely don't want to be wet by you), is childish and rude. If you want to play with water guns, do it in your back yard or in a field somewhere.
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Called "Tag" or something like that. They used suction darts fired from real guns (not sure how that works) but it was pretty much the same concept. Hunt someone down, kill them, get their target. Play on until you're the last man standing.
(of course in the movie one guy started actually killing everyone else, and much stupidity ensued)
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The police have been playing this game for ages now!
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Now, while you may be carrying "brightly-coloured super-soakers", I'll bet I could come up with some liquids to put in them that would make them, if not deadly, at least very, very annoying.
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I have taken the liberty of entering all the members of the labour Cabinet in the competition.
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some of the residences at my university hold sock assassinations, basically the same thing except with bundled up pairs of socks. You're only safe in class and your own room (if you locked the door). It's a fun orientation activity, it is sad that you can't have fun like that in today's world of terrorisim and all that bollocks.
though from the blurb I thought they were talking about not being allowed to take someone out on the internet!
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What of prostitution, please tell me there will be some of that.
Being a libertarian who follows civil liberties cases I was expecting a combination of the following:
1) A story about punk shitheads beating up an old person and getting slapped on the wrist for it.
2) A Jack Thompson type story about gamers actually shooting each other.
3) Generally another fine example of the British government screwing its law-abiding citizens.
And it turned out to be just a bunch of gamers having fun. What a nice change of pace.
Now, who wants to place a bet on how long before a bunch of ASBOs get handed out and the police go after this scourge while cheerfully ignoring the yobs who, in America, would be on the receiving end of a handgun, but are a protected class in Britain? Just kidding, FBI, don't arrest me...
I wonder, if it rains, is that the equivalent of being nuked?
A quick search on IMDB suggests you were thinking of Tag: The Assassination Game.
There was also a movie called Series 7: The Contenders which was sort of making fun of reality TV. (in this one, the assumption was that the players ere all really trying to kill each other) I saw it during the height of Survivor and the like, so I don't know how well it holds up without that background.
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One of the unique rules we had was that after 5 hits we could upgrade from the hand squirter to any means necessary. Super Soaker, Water Ballons, Hose, Buckets. It was pretty interesting for a while and about 300 students were initially signed up.
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Sounds like a bloody...er..soaking-good time!
The game is called, "Gotcha!" It's a clever game; except for the fact that it's highly improbable that a college campus would allow a bunch of students to run around with realistic looking pistols, firing away at one another. Nonetheless, the environment is set up for all sorts of gun play and killing.
The movie: Gotcha!.
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I believe there was also a CSI episode (or similar type of show) about this, where one player got pissed off, shot his 'killer' with a blank at close range, and killed him?
Why is this news? Ever try carrying a water pistol into an airport? (Hint: it was forbidden fifteen years before 9/11)
hmmm....sounds like you'd be safe from them in the airport...
I'd like to comment once again how behind the news slasdot is. We've been playing for two weeks and it's moving into its final phase now!
It's been great fun, have done my fair share of stalking. My teammate managed to get inside our first target's apartment block and flush him out onto the street, right into my range of fire. Great fun. We did put in about 7 hours of stakeout over the course of a week to get him though!
Alas we haven't made a second kill inside two weeks and will be disqualified at midnight tonight unless we can pull something out of the bag in the next few hours. Haven't seen hide nor hair of anyone hunting us though, which has been a bit of a disappointment.
So far I don't think the cops have shot or even arrested anyone either, which is good.
I can imagine having to look around for "assassins" as i run from my work to my car!
Who's there?
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We played it in the mid-80's in college. Lots of fun!
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If we can't sneak around pretending to kill each other - the Terrorists have won!
But to those that are about to read this thread, please remember that people below this post who think that with the "current political climate" this will get you shot are wrong. I live in London, I was hung over and woke up late missing the tube on the first bombings. and then got stuck at work the second time. And these are my experiences.
Firstly, I suspect it is mainly Americans posting - or at least I hope so - and I truly do not want to be mean, but Britain's culture is quiet different to yours. Our parents grew up in the blitz. And I grew up with the IRA bombings. Attacks on Civilians aren't new. They are a consequence of getting to live free. Just because people die - does not mean you give up your life and your freedoms.
The point I'm trying to make is that after the bombing attempt I had to walk across london to get home. Before I left we flipped from the (relatively) informative and calm BBC 24 news to CNN - and watched the presenters talk of the ""chaos" and "panic" as "millions of londoners" have "no possible way to get home".
As I crossed most of central london through most of the effected areas what did I see? I saw a roaring Taxi trade, and I saw hundreds of people standing around every pub I walkied past - drinking, laughing, talking.
CNN, by it's comments created fear across the country and the globe. But where it happened - there was no such thing. And the tubes were full the next day.
This is people playing with water pistols in one of the hottest summers London's ever had for fucks sake. It's more important than ever they play this stupid little game - rather than sit around in fear listening to the News as it lies to them.
Dislcaimer - I'm not talking about the Blitz spirit - or any of that crap, nor am I suggesting London would have handled 11/9 better. What I am saying is ignore the fear filled retoric spewing from the news. As I know first hand how accurate that is.
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I had a conversation once with a policeman. He told me something I never thought about. He told me that gangs would paint REAL guns with colors to make them look like toys. He also said some gans would attack a plastic bright orange(or paint) bracket on the muzzle of the gun to make it look like a toy gun as well. I am not suggesting that they should ban water gun games, but do understand the situation the police is in. Imagine you are in the "tube" (subway) and all of a sudden some guy runs with the gun as he chases down his target. I would imagine it wouldnt be a pleasant thoughts. I am sorry, but that would be just irresponsible.
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Sounds like a lot of fun, but if you are giving both your home and work address to a complete stranger you might find your house robbed when you get home.
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Nice to hear someone not advocating fear.
Londeners still ride the tube, Bali is still one of Australia's most visited holiday destination. I cant speak for everyone but I am quiet happy not living my life in fear.
In case anyone hasnt caught on to this already, its called terrorism for a reason. The point of it is to make you afraid. Live in fear and hand them a victory.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
You can kill a person with a watergun on the tube, not to mention disrupting travel for thousands of people. If the person being shot falls onto the track, the 600 volts of electricity will kill them. You may escape a murder charge but you *WILL* go to jail for manslaughter.
While chasing someone with your watergun in the tube, an innocent bystander could fall on the tracks. Any kind of combat is extremely dangerous to bystanders in tube stations.
If you fire a supersoaker stream of water and it falls on the tracks, it could be enough to cause a short circuit which will disrupt travel.
In any case, the tube stations are crawling with police officers, both uniformed and plainclothesed, looking for terrorists. You cannot escape in such a confined area. You *WILL* be caught and we *WILL* laugh at your stupidity.
I got another kill before breakfast this morning, we're still in the game.
What a rush, a 7am sprint down the road, replete with confused and suprised looking civillians, and a shoot out from behind cars, hedges and walls.
Got the man though. Soaked him good.