jotlefi jane writes: “At 8:15 am this morning, as I walked my daughter to daycare thinking of nothing but coffee, I noticed something peculiar. On Carlton between Prospect Place and St. Marks, three 20-something white males were pacing about armed with water guns.”
“One had a Giant Super Soaker attached to his back and clearly ready for firing, another had a small hand ‘soaker’ and the third hid his weapon in his pocket. They were hanging outside of an apartment and I heard the boss with the Super Soaker say, ‘there’s no answer.'”
“Hmmm, wish I knew just what they were doing. Soaker Swat team? Bachelor party antics? At 8:15? On a Wednesday? And what poor soul they were looking to soak. Still wondering.”
They were playing Urban Assasin. Citywide person to person hunting with water guns. Incredible amounts of fun. Really.
Oh man, adults actually do that?! We did that in HS. Strangely, I want to play — but I’d be pissed to be soaked at 8am.
I would love to play, actually. But probably not at 8am. Although, I am up…
If Midas is kidding, I will be disappointed. If it’s real, the dedication of these guys is amazing. It’s virtually impossible to get 3 people together for anything in this city, let alone a water gun battle, at some random location in the city, at the break of dawn.
Completely serious. I played this game last summer. You haven’t lived until you’ve chased an i-banker up 5th Avenue during your lunch hour. The way the whole thing works is that you start out with a card showing your targets picture, home and work addresse’s. They may be ‘killed’ the minute they leave the home door and/or off the work block. I got 5 before I was hunted down coming out of the gym. She’d been chasing me for a full day I found out afterwards. I need to find that website.
Holy sh1t!
This game was a HUGE tradition at my HS (stuyvesant down in battery park city) 1 senior would organize it each year we called it ‘Killer’ everybody would pony up $3 or something and the winner took the pot(minus a hefty commision).
People were crazy dedicated. Basicly as mentioned before you get a card with a name on it and thats it (it was HS getting extra info about somebody was easy, unless u got some really unpopular kid whom nobody knew where they lived) then once u squirt them you take their card and hunt the person they were trying to kill until there is only one man left standing.
It got interesting cus the only safe places were homes and class rooms, so going to class in the throngs of kids was a harrowing experience cus i have no idea who is out to get you. To make it even mroe difficult the administration knew about the game considered it gambling (cash prize at the end) and outlawed all water guns, with a penalty of suspension for the first offence! To a bunch of Ivy bound super nerds this was scary as all hell! but of course u cant outlaw those sports water bottles in a school and they are equaly as effective and offer more soak per squirt anyway with a slight erduction in effective range and acuracy. needless to say it was 2 weeks of tons of fun!
Daily heights: is there an adult web based version of this i dont know about? that would be insane! at least in HS you knew who to look out for in a very general sense. If you play the adult version you have to be paranoid 24/7! whats the URL?!
-Bobby