Disturbing Kid Games

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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My 10 year old hangs out with about 15 neighbor kids (remember, I live in Utah) between the ages of 8 and 12 years old. Today I come pulling into the driveway and see all the little girls with Jason hockey masks on and hold fake swords, hatchets, and knives. They are chasing all the boys around and trying to chop off body parts. It looked the the entire neighborhood was out there, plus more!

I see my son who has one arm tucked inside his shirt and another boy hopping around on one leg and still others laying on the ground. They also have fake vampire blood from last Halloween smeared all over themselves.

WTF?

Come to find out they created a new game that goes something like this.

First the girls dress up like killers and chase the boys all over the neighborhood trying to chop off arms, legs, or heads. If you get an arm cut off, you must then tuck it into your shirt. If you lose a leg, you can no longer use it. If you lose both legs, you have to scoot around on your butt. If you lose your head you have to get blind folded with a bandana. If you get hit in the stomach or back that cuts you in half and you die. Of course, the more body parts you lose the harder it is to run away and the easier it is to get cut in half. Once you die you have to lay there on the ground with fake blood on you until everyone else dies, then you trade and the boys become the killers and the girls the victims.

Crap! Why didn’t me and my friends think of that when we were kids!!! :frowning:

What type of weird games did you play when you were kids?

Oh, one more thing. Come to find out it was my son and his best friend who made this up. Little sickos! :smiley:

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Oh Jeeeeezus, I see that the typos and bad grammar in my OP is worse than normal. Read it with your head tilted, looks better that way.

I need a secretary.

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Thank you so much for posting this! I’ve been looking for new P.E. activities to use with my 5th grade class this coming school year.

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We used to play tag in the street. If you were touching the curb or formed a human chain with someone else touching the curb, you were safe UNLESS you were the last person on that side of the street, in which case It could tag you while you were on the side of the road. Honor system was used to return to your last position if a car should interrupt play.

I also remember day-long sessions of what was essentially live-action role-playing of D&D. The cartoon was fairly popular at the time and I had the basic set so I knew enough of the pen-and-paper variety to adapt the rules to live play. One kid (usually me) would be the DM and the others would take turns playing heros or monsters (if you got killed you had to be a monster for a while), the DM got to decide what kind of monsters everyone was. We’d flip coins or draw straws to determine random stuff.