"The Game" for real.

"As soon as I see a piece of his fur coat, I let loose with a blast," Roderick Gonzales recalled, relishing the memory. "He was surprised, with it coming out of the dark like that, so he tried to run across to the kitchen, and my brother got him from the other side and he just was knocked over…. He was soaked like he had just come in from a storm."

It's not exactly a scene from "The Bourne Identity" or "The Godfather," but for Roderick Gonzales it was a moment of triumph — sealing him as the grand champion of the San Francisco version of a bizarre game of squirt-gun assassin designed to help adults get in touch with their inner hit man.

The game, called StreetWars: Killer, is an elaborate version of hide-and-seek, an update of older assassin role-playing games. It is played on city streets by scores of participants armed with water guns. For weeks, they stalk, pursue and ambush in the hopes of being the ultimate — and dry — hit man.

Above from the La Times.

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