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Water Gun Assassin Role Playing Game in London

Steve Verdon · Tuesday, July 25, 2006 · 4 comments

A roleplaying game where the participants use water guns to “kill” their target is going to start in London. The contestants are assigned a target and have to “kill” the target with a water pistol, the last participant standing recieves $500.

Naturally the London’s Metropolitan Police and the British Transport Police are both against this and with good reason, IMO. In London if you look even vaguely suspicious they kill you. Play this game and you too can get shot in the head seven times, but with real bullets.

FILED UNDER: Entertainment, Guns and Gun Control, Contests, London

About Steve Verdon

Steve has a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and attended graduate school at The George Washington University, leaving school shortly before staring work on his dissertation when his first child was born. He works in the energy industry and prior to that worked at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Division of Price Index and Number Research. He joined the staff at OTB in November 2004.

Comments

Bithead says:

Tuesday, 25 July 2006 at 15:05

Mmmf.

You mean their water pistols aren’t painted dayglow orange like ours in the states are?

I could get three paras of comments off THAT one. But I won’t bother.
M. Murcek says:

Tuesday, 25 July 2006 at 15:10

They were playing this game way back in the late 70s when I was in college in Cleveland. It was called KAOS – Killing As Organized Sport.

Old and busted, except for the “you could get killed (for real) doing it” part…
Anderson says:

Tuesday, 25 July 2006 at 15:14

Look for the gene pool in London to be slightly improved over the coming days.
Kent G. Budge says:

Wednesday, 26 July 2006 at 09:54

We did this waaaaay back when I was an undergraduate. The campus police weren’t happy even then.

The last two contestants happened to be dating each other at the time. Both were extremely competitive types. Made for some awkward dates, I understand.