CU campus police shut down NERF game

Cleveland gun Rights Examiner ^ | December 8, 2009 | Daniel White

[Still Thinking]

Students at the University of Colorado are being told by campus police that their planned game of "Humans vs. Zombies" must be canceled because of a campus ban on toys that look like guns.

The planned game would divide participants into "humans" and "zombies" with the human team defending themselves with NERF guns. Campus police "[fear] they could be painted to look like a real weapon and someone could become alarmed and notify authorities, who would have to respond."

"If we have people playing a game and someone happens to be walking and sees someone crouched down with something that looks like a weapon, then they call us, we're going to respond," said campus police spokesman Mollie Bosley.

[Still Thinking]

The wussification of America continues apace.

[gimme1ibertee]

Just....damn.

[Hodar]

Yet another AK-47

[Hazwaste]

They would have had a cow if they had been around when I was in college. We played the assassination game, complete with rubber stick-um dart guns, masks, etc. Man, I had forgotten all about that. What a blast.

[Wisconsinlady]

Great! Boulder, CO can finally take some of its own ridiculous PC medicine.

[Oztrich Boy]

Well don’t blame the students when the zombies take over.

[Richard Kimball]

They’re just afraid the kids would beat the football team.

[GI Joe Fan]

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Campus police [fear] they could be painted to look like a real weapon and someone could become alarmed and notify authorities, who would have to respond

Translation: We don't feel like, you know, doing our job or anything difficult like that!. We'd rather sit here in the warm dry office sipping coffee and eating donuts.

[Night Hides Not]

They would have had a cow if they had been around when I was in college.

We threw frisbees in our dorm hall. I really learned how to throw one straight.

We also liked butt sliding on weekends. Soap up the floor, get a running start, and off you go.

That lasted until they installed carpets in that dorm.

[PanzerKardinal]

Forget NERF guns.

While in ROTC, we use to carry M-14’s through campus while going to the range.

[stayathomemom]

That lasted until they installed carpets in that dorm.

I hope you noted the installation.

[dfwgator]

They’re just afraid the kids would beat the football team.

LOL!

[Pete]

Same here. Laser tag with full fatigues and face paint...at night.

[Steamburg]

The peepholes republik of Boulder and the Nazis of the CUPD are alarmed that anyone might actually want to have fun and not make it a political issue. The Capitalism that made CU a good engineering school must be banned.

[Night Hides Not]

I hope you noted the installation.

Naturally...I was an upperclassman by then! LOL!

[Night Hides Not]

While in ROTC, we use to carry M-14’s through campus while going to the range.

I hear you. I was on the Rifle Team all four years, and our .22 range was on the 4th floor of the Admin building.

No biggie..it was during the 70s.

[colorado tanker]

No reasonably sentient human beign could mistake a nerf gun for the real thing. Sheesh.

[FReepaholic]

...While in ROTC, we use to carry M-14’s through campus while going to the range...

In high school (Alabama 1970's), our JROTC rifle range was in a basement under the school. Wonder if it's still there. I'm sure liberals would have a cow.

[OneWingedShark]

How hard is it to do the following:
- Write “kids playing with Nerf guns.” on the police report.
- If 911 was used, forward the caller’s name, address, and phone number to the DA for prosecution under the actual crime of abusing the 911 line.

Hm, how hard is that?