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Incredible Bad Idea?
Not incredibly, but incredible.
The scene: the streets of Philadelphia, 3AM.
The game: Lasertag
The objective: Be the last man standing. (I doubt there would be any women involved in this)
This wasn’t my idea, I actually stole it from Ben at geekadelphia.
But why is it a bad idea? I figure that in a team of 20, 5 would be arrested, 14 would escape and 1 would be shot by police. But until that happened, think of it. Running through empty streets, ducking into dark alleys, tripping over rats and prostitutes as you take cover from laser fire behind a dumpster. What a great time!
About a decade ago, I actually, sort of did this. It was one of those slow summer evenings and a group of 7 of us were looking for something to do. After a short deliberation without any good ideas, it suddenly came to me. I suggested combining our resources and buying a couple sets of lasertag. Between the game and batteries, it was only about $10 each.
We agreed and it was off to Toys R’ Us. After buying the guns, we descended into the woods of Northwest Philadelphia. For hours, we ran through the dark forest and battled like idiots. It was actually a whole lot of fun and a hell of a lot cheaper than the lasertag arcade that used to be down in South Philly. No cops in the woods either.
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