Yup, a professor confused THIS for the real thing and had the campus locked down...
Posted on 04/10/2008 11:16:18 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
ALFRED, N.Y.-- "I took my belongings, walked downstairs and darted as fast as I could and 13 to 15 zombies started running after me," said Rosemarie Fraioli, an Alfred University freshman.
Fraioli isn't talking about a dream but real life playing the game Zombies versus Humans. In the game, the humans use Nerf guns to stave off a zombie attack. Tuesday, one of those guns sparked a campus-wide lockdown at Alfred University.
"One faculty member saw one of our players walking through an academic building. And we think they just glimpsed one of the Nerf guns and thought it was a real gun," said Alex Geddes, the game's organizer.
It was the black and silver handle of one of the Nerf guns that was mistaken for a real gun. But according to the rules of Zombies versus Humans, players purposely use guns that don't look real to prevent confusion and make sure everyone stays safe.
"They are intentionally bright colors so that you know they are a plastic toy and not a pistol," Fraioli said.
Even so, there was confusion and the game at Alfred is off for now. But Norm Pollard, the Dean of Students, said the game has benefits and could come back in a modified way.
"We don't want to have a knee-jerk reaction and automatically condemn this activity but see if there's a way we can work together that deals with the problems and still has a positive outcome," said Pollard.
Organizers said they're eager to work with university officials.
"The last thing we want to see is this generate bad publicity for this game here and on other campuses," Geddes said.
A few other schools have banned Zombies versus Humans outright. But at Alfred University, it looks like players could get the chance to fend off another zombie attack.
The dean declined to comment on whether Alfred University will take any disciplinary action against the student who caused the lockdown.
Yup, a professor confused THIS for the real thing and had the campus locked down...
I guess it’s Nothin’.
Good Grief. Perhaps they should use water balloons instead. That’d be fun to watch in the winter in New York.
Sure, but then a professor would think it was a grenade.
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Even a caveman could have figured out the toy wasn't a real gun! |
Why are University students playing what appears to be a fourth-grade game?
Odds are, he/she/it was fully aware of what was going on and that the toy was exactly that, a toy.
A great number of academics are hateful leftists who take great pleasure in causing an uproar over something they don't approve of. So anything that might give a student a moment to consider maybe a firearm isn't a terrible thing to fear and loathe is to disrupted at all costs.
It's a pity the zombies already go to this “professor” and ate out it's brain...
Ah, you can’t win for losing.
These university kids appear to be learning a heck of a lot more than the typical Harvard lib arts - er - lib marshmallow student.
We played something similar at the Bible college where I began my postsecondary schooling. It was called “The Death Game” and we got it from an old episode of The Saint. When you destroyed someone you shouted, “This is your Hunter and You are Dead!” (Destruction could come by any means as long as your method was at least plausible; e.g., throwing a piece of yarn over someone’s head from behind as a pretend garrotte.)
Of course in those days people didn’t buy bottled water or wear helmets when they tobogganed down hill, either.
Meet Generation Cosmic Wuss.
Ah, my Alma Mater, nestled away ‘mid the Empire State hills. We didn’t play this game when I was there; we drank.
This, I find a pleasant surprise from the Dean:
“”We don’t want to have a knee-jerk reaction and automatically condemn this activity but see if there’s a way we can work together that deals with the problems and still has a positive outcome,” said Pollard.”
TC
What are zombies doing there? They won’t find any brains.
remember when kids played “Assasin” and “gotcha”?
they even made a movie about one.
Because they were not allowed to play it in the fourth grade?
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