TAMPA, Fla. – It’s a preferred senior recreation, typically referred to as “water wars” or “senior assassins,” however this week, it led to 2 Bay Space colleges locking their doorways and calling legislation enforcement.
That’s why educators and legislation enforcement are warning teenagers and fogeys that this recreation can go too far.
TikTok is stuffed with movies of screaming seniors getting splashed with Tremendous Soakers, however the foolish recreation has prompted actual scares.
Latest Incidents:
Tampa Police responded to an incident at St. Mary’s Episcopal Faculty on Monday.
A street rage incident with a teen carrying a masks and showing to hold a gun prompted the college to lockdown, and close by Coleman Center Faculty went right into a “lock-in.”
TPD decided the teenager concerned was a Plant Excessive senior collaborating in “water wars.”
In a letter to folks, the Plant Excessive principal mentioned college students who create security issues on any college campus might face disciplinary motion. Different communities are going a step additional.
Police in Georgia went door to door to indicate mother and father how far the sport was being taken.
Regulation enforcement mentioned the gun sounds appeared actual.
“My concern is that they might find yourself getting damage as a result of, on this group, folks personal firearms,” mentioned resident Amanda Stanzione.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Workplace put out its personal warning.
“Some individuals have gone to nice lengths to hold out their recreation assassinations, together with working in the midst of the day and working in the midst of the evening,” mentioned the sheriff.
The warning got here after an off-duty FDLE agent in Nassau County shot a highschool scholar, hiding on her property earlier than dawn. He was injured however can be OK.
Police say he was carrying an airsoft gun that had been wrapped in masking tape.
What they’re saying:
Concerning this week’s incident in Tampa, TPD tells FOX 13, “Our faculty useful resource officers have been involved with college officers to bolster to college students [that] these sorts of pranks could be supposed as innocent, however they may end up in doubtlessly harmful penalties.”
The Supply: FOX 13’s Genevieve Curtis collected the knowledge on this story.
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