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2009-12-04 02:18:50 PM
I know right! Except there are morons out there buying these....

images.teamsugar.com

If i were a cop, i would shoot first...

g
 
2009-12-04 02:47:27 PM
You laugh now, but wait till someone pulls off a massacre with one of those things. Dozens of people could have those suction cup things stuck to their heads.
And god help us if they lick the suction cups first.
 
2009-12-04 02:53:13 PM
vanderlay_industries: If i were a cop, i would shoot first...

my son has 10 nerf guns. they're orange and green and yellow and look like a real gun like louie anderson looks like kate moss
 
2009-12-04 02:53:50 PM
Well yeah--if a nerf gun were a real gun you could kill someone with it.
 
2009-12-04 02:56:22 PM
albo: vanderlay_industries: If i were a cop, i would shoot first...

my son has 10 nerf guns. they're orange and green and yellow and look like a real gun like louie anderson looks like kate moss


They're ONE STEP AWAY from real guns. Just like Dihydrogen monoxide is one step away from rocket fuel.
And yet those government bastards expose our kids to it every single day.
 
2009-12-04 02:59:24 PM
vanderlay_industries: I know right! Except there are morons out there buying these....

Is that a real gun? I think it's cute! I'm also a female who doesn't own any guns.

True story: The last week of 6th grade, our class was assigned to act out some portion of a book. I don't remember the details, but my partner brought a black toy gun to my house to practice. The next day, I walked to school with no backpack because it was practically summer and I had no real assignments. All I needed to bring was this gun that my friend had left at my house so we could do our sketch.

As I get closer to the school, I notice cars slowing down next to me and then speeding away. I teacher cautiously approached me at the end of the block and said, "You need to come with me." To school? Sure, I'm headed there anyway. She lectured me on firearms not being allowed in school all the way to the principal's office without once trying to apprehend the fake gun.

The principal told me toy guns at school were a suspendable offense, and I told him I planned to be suspended all summer anyway. He laughed and said, "Give me the gun." I reiterated that it was a toy and said I'd be happy to hand it over. My friend didn't care about it, so it probably still sits in the Drawer of Confiscated Sh*t this very day.
 
Pud [TotalFark]
2009-12-04 03:01:03 PM
stevejencks.files.wordpress.com

Hard to get a high body count. Even with one of these.
 
2009-12-04 03:16:55 PM
Pud: Hard to get a high body count. Even with one of these.

I saw a guy mod one of those into a heavy-weapon version of a Ghostbuster proton gun. It was sweet.
 
2009-12-04 03:48:10 PM
CU says its policy also bans the use of fake guns and that that includes the Nerf guns used to play the popular college tag game known as Humans vs. Zombies. In the game, humans can freeze zombies by hitting them with a Nerf gun or balled-up socks.

I'd like to know a little more about this game. Is it just freeze tag with a different game? What happens if a zombie tags you? Do you become a zombie? How do you decide who's a human and who's a zombie? Do the zombies have to shuffle? When is the game over? How long do frozen zombies stay frozen? Are we talking about balled-up socks being thrown, or tied together and used as a mace?
 
2009-12-04 04:03:54 PM
Pud: Hard to get a high body count. Even with one of these.

You just need to try harder.
 
2009-12-04 04:04:14 PM
How shocking - the state university in the People's Democratic Republic of Boulder is behind this.
 
2009-12-04 04:15:06 PM
Pocket Ninja: CU says its policy also bans the use of fake guns and that that includes the Nerf guns used to play the popular college tag game known as Humans vs. Zombies. In the game, humans can freeze zombies by hitting them with a Nerf gun or balled-up socks.

I'd like to know a little more about this game. Is it just freeze tag with a different game? What happens if a zombie tags you? Do you become a zombie? How do you decide who's a human and who's a zombie? Do the zombies have to shuffle? When is the game over? How long do frozen zombies stay frozen? Are we talking about balled-up socks being thrown, or tied together and used as a mace?


It's actually a pretty intricate game. Usually starts with just one zombie, who then has to spread the infection. If a zombie tags a human (they don't get weapons--they have to touch someone), the human becomes a zombie & switches sides. If a human tags a zombie, they're frozen for 15 minutes.

The games can last for days, so Safe Zones are set up beforehand so that the players can eat & sleep without fear of attack. Weaponry varies. I know Rutgers & Princeton use Nerf Guns but Stockton, William Patterson, & Montclair use water pistols.

/Zombie nut
//And a lot of NJ colleges are my accounts.
 
2009-12-04 04:50:32 PM
They also will doubtless ban the balling of socks, since those could be confused with a grenade, right?
 
2009-12-04 05:39:30 PM
Pud: Hard to get a high body count. Even with one of these.

Nerf guns are so much cooler now then when I was a kid.
 
2009-12-04 05:40:02 PM
they should outlaw women's 'bullets' too then
 
2009-12-04 05:43:00 PM
HAHAHAHA Boulder.

Enjoy your nanny state, college students.
 
2009-12-04 05:44:47 PM
they banned them for teh dead week version of this at GT but we're hoping they'll let us use them in the spring takeover
 
2009-12-04 05:45:24 PM
So, a university is banning nerf guns because they assume cops are dumb. Could someone then explain to me why half the article is about a different university which allows licenses individuals to carry a concealed weapon on certain areas of campus? I just don't see how the two are really related.
 
2009-12-04 05:50:40 PM
Sylver Dragon: Could someone then explain to me why half the article is about a different university which allows licenses individuals to carry a concealed weapon on certain areas of campus? I just don't see how the two are really related.

Both universities are in Colorado. CSU is in Ft. Collins, and CU is in Boulder.
 
2009-12-04 05:51:31 PM
If nerf guns are outlawed only outlaws will have nerf guns.
 
2009-12-04 05:52:06 PM
So they nerfed Nerf guns?
 
2009-12-04 05:52:15 PM
Wasn't there a movie where college assasins went around doing this with toy guns until someone starting really killing each other off? and I think there was a really hot chic involved, anyone? bueller?
 
2009-12-04 05:53:39 PM
brigid_fitch: Pocket Ninja: CU says its policy also bans the use of fake guns and that that includes the Nerf guns used to play the popular college tag game known as Humans vs. Zombies. In the game, humans can freeze zombies by hitting them with a Nerf gun or balled-up socks.

I'd like to know a little more about this game. Is it just freeze tag with a different game? What happens if a zombie tags you? Do you become a zombie? How do you decide who's a human and who's a zombie? Do the zombies have to shuffle? When is the game over? How long do frozen zombies stay frozen? Are we talking about balled-up socks being thrown, or tied together and used as a mace?

It's actually a pretty intricate game. Usually starts with just one zombie, who then has to spread the infection. If a zombie tags a human (they don't get weapons--they have to touch someone), the human becomes a zombie & switches sides. If a human tags a zombie, they're frozen for 15 minutes.

The games can last for days, so Safe Zones are set up beforehand so that the players can eat & sleep without fear of attack. Weaponry varies. I know Rutgers & Princeton use Nerf Guns but Stockton, William Patterson, & Montclair use water pistols.

/Zombie nut
//And a lot of NJ colleges are my accounts.


Um, there's a bandana involved somehow. The zombies either have to tie one on the human, or take it off, I can't remember. Zombies can only be "killed" for 24 hours, then they're back. We have this every year at our campus, ending with a huge hunt/slaughter on the night of the Halloween block party. I'm pretty sure humans have never won.

It's actually really cool to deliver pizza all fall quarter and see these nerds doing it. They're dedicated. There's 30 or 40 out every night during October. It makes me wish I were still a young, unemployed nerd.
 
2009-12-04 05:54:05 PM
Obama has taken away so many guns we done forgot what real ones look like!
 
2009-12-04 05:54:17 PM
not Nerf:
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2009-12-04 05:56:39 PM
There was also a game called "Assassins" sometimes played instead of "Humans & Zombies." It uses nerf guns as well. You get everyone together. Everyone sees each other's face and knows their names. Their names are put into a hat, and each person pulls a name, but never reveals it.

The next day, the game begins. You have to "kill" the person whose name you got, but you are also being hunted by someone else who pulled your name. Once you kill your target, you are given another person's name to hunt down.

You are only allowed 1 assassination attempt per hour, though. So for example if you missed your shot, you can't just reload and take another shot. You have to let him get away and wait an hour.

It can get pretty tricky... my roommate paid his target's roommate to leave a window unlocked at night so he could sneak in and "kill" his target while he was asleep. (Though generally a rule is made that you can't make assassinations during important times, like tests or while someone is at their work place).

No one ever made it clear what happens when there's only 2 people left, though...
 
2009-12-04 05:56:57 PM
Next, banning people from making the gun hand on campus.
 
2009-12-04 05:57:06 PM
butre713: Wasn't there a movie where college assasins went around doing this with toy guns until someone starting really killing each other off? and I think there was a really hot chic involved, anyone? bueller?


Was is "Gotcha!"? Starring Linda Fiorentino and Gilbert from "Revenge of the Nerds".
 
2009-12-04 05:57:20 PM
A campus near where I live got shut down because someone was carrying a camera tripod case, and someone thought it might be a gun case. The person carrying the tripod case eventually faced charges.

This is the end-game stupidity of gun control.
 
2009-12-04 05:57:25 PM
"But if a student has a Nerf gun in their pocket pants or coat, and only the handle is showing, a cop or a passerby wouldn't know what it is."

Should I show all the cops and passersby what I have in my pants?
 
2009-12-04 05:57:34 PM
My freshman year some friends of mine and I bought BB guns that resembled Colt 1911s and would run around the dorms shooting at each other. At Virginia Tech.

/lot of time has passed since 1997
 
2009-12-04 05:59:09 PM
Pop quiz! Which one is dangerous?

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or

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2009-12-04 05:59:57 PM
betona: Pop quiz! Which one is dangerous?

IT'S NERF OR IT'S NOTHING!

... right?
 
2009-12-04 06:00:50 PM
Are Oozinators still legal on campus?

Link (NSFW language)
 
2009-12-04 06:01:42 PM
One of my earliest memories is being 8 and going through airport security. The TSA person popped open my bag and took my favorite nerf gun that was a barrel-loading, single shot, hand-cocked-via-giant-plastic-pull-tab affair. I just sat there looking devastated as my parents pleaded for her to let us mail it to ourselves, to no avail. It was gone. No idea how my mom didn't end up punching that lady.

/cool story bro
//still miss that gun
 
2009-12-04 06:02:31 PM
Sylver Dragon: So, a university is banning nerf guns because they assume cops are dumb. Could someone then explain to me why half the article is about a different university which allows licenses individuals to carry a concealed weapon on certain areas of campus? I just don't see how the two are really related.

Because neither begins with an "N".
 
2009-12-04 06:03:49 PM
yogaFLAME: One of my earliest memories is being 8 and going through airport security. The TSA person popped open my bag and took my favorite nerf gun that was a barrel-loading, single shot, hand-cocked-via-giant-plastic-pull-tab affair. I just sat there looking devastated as my parents pleaded for her to let us mail it to ourselves, to no avail. It was gone. No idea how my mom didn't end up punching that lady.

/cool story bro
//still miss that gun



I bet that biatch gave it to her son or nephew.

/Was the TSA even around when you were 8?
 
2009-12-04 06:03:59 PM
A few friends and I got reamed by a few police for shooting each other with Airsoft guns. The cops came up to us weapons drawn... I guess they didn't notice the whole bright orange tips on the guns we had. All was fine after the cops realized that we were playing with toys, the whole lack of sound thing should of clued them in... stupid neighbor called the cops.
 
2009-12-04 06:07:15 PM
Retarded Rabid Elk: A campus near where I live got shut down because someone was carrying a camera tripod case, and someone thought it might be a gun case. The person carrying the tripod case eventually faced charges.

orly?

What charges?
 
2009-12-04 06:07:48 PM
The_Sponge:

I bet that biatch gave it to her son or nephew.

/Was the TSA even around when you were 8?


He just turned 10, so yes. ;)

The T(ards) S(tanding) A(round) confiscates snow globes now.

/Rolls eyes
 
2009-12-04 06:07:52 PM
Oh, Mary.
 
2009-12-04 06:08:06 PM
The_Sponge: yogaFLAME:
I bet that biatch gave it to her son or nephew.

/Was the TSA even around when you were 8?


The TSA was formed in 2001 after 9/11 as an extension of the Home Land Security to deal with Sea Ports and Air traffic safety and security.
 
2009-12-04 06:08:07 PM
betona: Pop quiz! Which one is dangerous?

Modding Mavericks is all the rage these days. Especially among steampunks. I daresay most people unfamiliar with firearms would have to take a second look at some of them and still might be wondering if it's real or not.

farm4.static.flickr.com
 
2009-12-04 06:08:09 PM
I was ready to do a 'nanny state' rant but after seeing that there are some that really look like guns, I guess I can kind of see the point.
 
2009-12-04 06:08:22 PM
The_Sponge: /Was the TSA even around when you were 8?

Huh, dunno. Airport security + proximity of cinnabon is all I really remember.

*checked wiki, TSA was definitely not around back then. just evil security ladies.
 
2009-12-04 06:09:03 PM
I am just now painting a dayglo orange stripe around the tip of the barrel on all my guns so I am getting a real kick...
 
2009-12-04 06:09:07 PM
Retarded Rabid Elk: A campus near where I live got shut down because someone was carrying a camera tripod case, and someone thought it might be a gun case. The person carrying the tripod case eventually faced charges.


If cartoons taught me anything, it's that I should always carry my firearms in a violin case.
 
mhd
2009-12-04 06:09:07 PM
I understand the police completely. Nerf guns are easily mistaken for painted Adeptus Astartes bolter guns.

/Still, faith is the sturdiest armor. Hatred the surest weapon.
 
2009-12-04 06:09:13 PM
vanderlay_industries: I know right! Except there are morons women out there buying these....



If i were a cop, i would shoot first...

g


/or men buying them as gifts for their wife/girlfriend/daughter
//big farking deal
///i41.photobucket.com
 
2009-12-04 06:09:21 PM
platkat: Is that a real gun? I think it's cute! I'm also a female who doesn't own any guns.

There are plenty of pink guns. It's been done to death (heh). Lauer Custom Weaponry makes a broad line of mixable paints specifically for firearms under the brand name DuraCoat. They even have a line of fun colors know as the Bloomberg Collection. This is named after the New York mayor because he's such a fan.
 
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