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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."
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!
disclaimer: I've been known to store numbers in my ass for which to dig out when quantities are required.
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.
The table leg was wrapped in a bag and police had been told he had a shotgun. If you're suspected of being a terrorist, having a flourescent water gun isn't going to make the slightest bit of difference. And you fail to mention that the guy "armed with a lighter" was holding a lighter that was an imitation gun. It's a bit dishonest not to mention this crucial fact and fail to link the article properly so most Slashdotters won't bother reading the article, don't you think?
Yes, all of these were regrettable mistakes. But brightly-coloured water guns aren't going to make the slightest bit of difference, you're just scaremongering.
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