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Imagine a scenario like this:

"Bizarre Game Targets Blacks: 'Hunting for Sambo'

(July 10) -- It's a new form of adult entertainment, and white men are paying thousands of dollars to shoot black people with paint ball guns. They're coming to Las Vegas to do it. This bizarre new sport has captured the attention of people around the world, but Channel 8 Eyewitness News reporter Xxxx is the only person who has interviewed the game's founder.

Simon LeGree has never been slavehunting. "I'm from 21st century New York. What am I going to hunt? Squirrels? Someone's cats. Someone's dogs? I don't think so," said LeGree. Now that he's living in Las Vegas , he's finally getting his chance to put on his camouflage, grab a rifle and pull the trigger, but what's in his scope may surprise you. He's not hunting ducks or even deer. He's hunting men. Black men.

"I've done this three times," says daShan, one of the three African-American men allowing themselves to be shot at. "I've done this seven times," says Quenia, another "target" participating. "I've done it seven times," says Darian, a third.

Hunting for Sambo is the brain child of G.L. Rockwell. Men pay anywhere from $5000 to $10,000 for the chance to come to the middle of the desert to shoot what they call "Sambos" with a paint ball gun. Rockwell says men have come from as far away as Germany. The men get a video tape of their hunt to take home and show their friends.

Rockwell says safety is a concern, but the men are not allowed to wear protective gear -- only basketball shoes. Today while the Eyewitness News cameras were rolling, one man chose to wear an athletic supporter but normally all they wear is their black skins.

Rockwell says "slavehunters" are told not shoot the "escaping slaves" in the genital area, but admits not all hunters follow the rules. "The main goal is to be true as true to history as possible. My ancestors didn't go slavehunting and see an escaped slave with a football helmet on so I don't want to see one on my 'slave' either," said LeGree.

The paint balls that come out of the guns travel at about 200 miles per hour. Getting hit with one stings even with clothes on, and when they hit bare flesh, they are powerful enough to draw blood.

Rockwell shot one of the "slaves" and says, "I got the one with the biggest [deleted]."

Darian is the one who took the paint ball shot to the rear. He says, "It hurt. It really hurt. I didn't think it was going to be that bad." When asked if he cried she says, "Aw, hell, no."

So why do black men agree to strip down and run around the desert dodging paint balls? Quenia says it's good money. "I mean it's $2500 if you don't get hit. You try desperately not to and it's $1000 if you do."

Now both the white men and black "prey" say this is all good, clean fun, but in Part 2 of this story, our reporter spoke with a psychologist who says for some men playing out this racial aggression may lead to other more violent acts against non-whites..."

Q. Would a game like the one described above be acceptable as "entertainment" to moral people?

Q. Why not? What would be the difference?

My opinion: Anyone who would play a game like this has problems.

My opinion: Anyone who would play a game like this has problems.

No kidding. I mean, what type of whack-job, when presented with an attractive, naked female, has as his first thought, "where's my paint gun, I want to simulate shooting and killing her".

Freakish.

I have often had the far more common male fantasy of riding in on the white horse to save the girl in distress. Maybe they could set up normal guys like me with a chance to shoot at the freaks that are trying to shoot the gals?