A month-long water pistol tournament is under way in the UK. But what makes adults want to "shoot" total strangers in the street?

On a street corner, an assassin waits in silence for his victim.

Dressed all in black, face covered except for his eyes, he looks menacing as he steadies his weapon and prepares to shoot with the cold-blooded eyes of a killer.

But not everything is as it seems. His weapon is bright green and it is water rather than bullets that blasts the hapless, screaming, victim as he fumbles - too late - for his own pistol.

The assassin laughs silently as he lets his soaking-wet prey through the door he was guarding.

He is taking part in StreetWars, a water "assassination" contest that started in London on Monday and which lasts until 29 August.

Kicked off in New York in 2004, the tournament has since visited cities including Vancouver, Vienna, Los Angeles and Paris, and organisers say it attracts between 125 and 300 players. The first London contest took place in 2006 and it returns this month for the first time in three years.

It is a water fight for grown ups where, they say, the entire city is your playground.

However, some city authorities criticise it as "irresponsible" and suggest it might spark security alerts.

Yes but what about Flash Mobs that requires the same mentality. They definitely happen here.

Not to any great extent, certainly not outside of London.

Not to any great extent, certainly not outside of London.

Back in my ‘Yuf’ – OK when I was in my 20’s me and a load of mates did this although without water pistols (although they were allowed)

Anything non lethal could be used, inc sneaking up behind your target, and shouting BANG when within a few feet of them while pointing a banana at them!

Generally the police seemed unfazed by two “grown men” running through the centre of Birmingham one chasing the other with a banana shouting “Come back and die like a man”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10852985


Would anybody be interested in this?

Back in my ‘Yuf’ – OK when I was in my 20’s me and a load of mates did this although without water pistols (although they were allowed)

Anything non lethal could be used, inc sneaking up behind your target, and shouting BANG when within a few feet of them while pointing a banana at them!

Somewhere, I have the rules for an RPG game. The premise is simple - you and your friends are out to kill each other. You can shoot them, bomb them, etc.. In reality, it’s all fake and just a case of setting traps or ambushing them

For example: take a pillow, stick a piece of paper with the word “piano” on it and drop it on their head. Result: you’ve dropped a piano on them. Similarly, you could booby trap thei desk by hiding a “bomb” in a draw. When the draw is opened, the bomb has gone off .

a tone of bricks.

F sharp?