Monthly Archive for April, 2006

There seem to be quite a num­ber of internet-organized games and flash­mobs going down these days. Van­cou­ver has seen giant pil­low fights, zom­bie attacks, huge games of hide and seek, and appar­ently a city wide fight to the death by want-to-be assas­sins… all right under our noises. While all these activ­i­ties are inter­est­ing, this Street Wars con­test really sounds like the excit­ing one.

Upon reg­is­ter­ing with Street Wars you receive an enve­lope con­tain­ing the name, address, phone num­bers and photo of your tar­get. You have three weeks to hunt them down, and spring a sur­prise attack on them. By this we don’t mean jump­ing out from behind a bush scream­ing BOO, it’s more like a strate­gic ambush. One may choose to pose as a post­man and upon answer­ing the door, soak their tar­get, which ‘kills’ them. Once ‘dead’ you take your vic­tims enve­lope and begin to hunt down their intended tar­get. And so on. This con­tin­ues until the tar­get you assas­si­nate has your photo in their envelop. You win Cash, your life and get to stay dry!

Here are part 1 and part 2 of a news seg­ment about the tour­na­ment. It’s some­what anti-climatic but still a lot of fun.

Street­Wars: A 3 week long, 24/7, water­gun assas­si­na­tion tour­na­ment — NYC, Van­cou­ver, Vienna, San Fran­cisco via Coolhunter.net

Manhunt-Vancouver via Beyond Rob­son

Update: Sounds like this week they are play­ing a large ses­sion of dodge­ball near the Van­cou­ver Art Gallery instead of the usual Man­hunt games.

You pull the pin on the grenade, and an LED goes on to con­firm that the unit is armed and “live”. After approx­i­mately 3 sec­onds, the alarm will turn on and the LED will go out. The alarm turns off when the pin is replaced.

I Make Projects: Sonic Grenades via TechAmok