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Maxim Magazine June 2007
Three hours hanging in a fucking tree, right through sunrise. My target, a pretty young woman named Agent Fifi, is still inside. I know she has to leave, because I know where she works. But I'm tired. I have to piss. My left leg is numb from perching on this branch, high in this chestnut tree on this quiet East London street. One of the confounding aspects of surveillance is that once you've been there an hour, you don't want to leave. You're vested. What keeps me going is this: When Fifi does come out—and I know she will—I'm going to cream her, wet her, send a stream of water through the air and all over her nice business suit. I'm going to listen to her scream.
I'm wearing black jeans, a black hoodie. ,and a black baseball cap. A set of $1,000 , Bosch infrared 500x binoculars dangles from my neck. I have a flask of coffee in my bag. And my PowerSoak4000 water pistol.
Three women leave briskly. I scan them with the Bosch. Not her. Eventually, Fifi emerges through her doorway, slowly, like a cat stepping into a snowstorm. She's scared, knowing someone's after her because she too is hunting someone. This is all part of a game called StreetWars—a 24/7, citywide water pistol assassination game wherein players are both killer and prey.
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Ever seen an action movie and thought: No way would that happen! Of course you have. Action movies are beyond our comprehension. Unless you’re taking part in an immersive experience like Street Wars. The month-long tournament that started in New York in 2004 returns to London in June for a fourth water-gun-toting time, and it¹s the most fun summer event we can imagine, short of Bob Hoskins descending from heaven on a rainbow and showering us with Soleros.
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Associated Press (ASAP) - Oct 7, 2005
I didn't know at the time, but that simple IM would incite a weeks-long cat-and-mouse game between myself -- a wild-mannered reporter -- and The Jackal, an "assassin" shrouded in mystery. But this game would be completely separate from the "StreetWars" game. And it would sorta freak me out.
Associated Press(ASAP) - Oct 7, 2005
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By day, Franz Aliquo is a 30-year-old equities lawyer. By night, he's the Supreme Commander of the Shadow Government, an underground organization that operates a three-week watergun assassination tournament called "StreetWars," played by more than 150 New Yorkers. The game has also taken place in Vancouver, and there are plans to export it to San Francisco and Vienna this fall.
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"I live a regular, ordinary life," says StreetWars player David Styles. "I've got a wife and kids, I work in the City, I'm a bit overweight. I saw this as chance to feel like I was living in an action movie for a couple of weeks."Read Article
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For an attempted assassination, there sure was a lot of giggling going on.
"I'm going to feel pretty good about shooting someone, if I don't die first,'' said would-be assassin Nicole Califano, who was drinking a beer, which was not helping to steady her trigger finger any.
Califano is one of 130 contestants armed with water pistols who are stalking each other this month throughout San Francisco, waiting to ambush and squirt total strangers.