High School Students Take Over the Valley

Many of you may recall the news last year about the assassins’ game that many teams of high school teens join from our local high schools. This is a game where you are a target for a set amount of time.  If you get “assassinated” in that timeframe, you’re eliminated.  If not, you remain in the game.  If you get the target you are assigned, you remain in the game.  If not, you’re out.

To be assassinated, a teen must squirt its target with a water gun, take a photo of their successful hunt and post it.  This goes on in the months of April and May until all teams are eliminated except the final one.  At this point, that team wins money, which is usually around $1000.00 for their successful participation.

It is a controversial subject among many for the obvious dangers that we adults can foresee, but in a teenagers mind, it’s a game.  All in good fun and rules will be followed.  The kids are required to use bright colored guns in addition to other rules that must be followed.

Whether people agree with the game and the participants’ choice to join isn’t the point of my blog because the games will go on.  These are teenagers we are talking about.

The point of this blog is simply to bring awareness that the games are upon us again.  Please be conscientious of the game players so maybe in some way we can help these kids stay safe.

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