I think Florida should be commended for seeing its own future and embracing that reality

[kpete]

A summer camp in Florida offers kids the chance to participate in a real-life version of the Hunger Games and "fight to the death"




The first day of camp brought girls with lunchbags and suntans and swimsuit strings hanging down the backs of their shirts. They smiled and jumped up and down, excited to see each other; many were classmates at Country Day School, the host of the summer camp. It was this friendship that made Rylee Miller, 12, feel a little conflicted. "I don't want to kill you," she told Julianna Pettey. Julianna, also 12, looked her in the eye. "I will probably kill you first," she said. She put her hands on Rylee's shoulders. "I might stab you."

The boys had gathered away from the girls, across the room. Eli Hunter cocked an elbow and pointed the fingers on his other hand, explaining that he was a sniper in a tree. He gunned down Liam Cadzow, a tiny blond boy in a bucket hat.

"What are we going to do first?" shouted 14-year-old Sidney Martenfeld. "Are we going to kill each other first?"

"No! No violence this week," the camp's head counselor was busy telling the children. But keeping the kids from talk of murder would prove difficult. That was, after all, the driving plot point of The Hunger Games — and this was Hunger Games camp.

the rest, plus video (oh boy!):
http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/at-hunger-games-camp-children-want-to-fight-to-the-death/2134621

[steve2470]

1. geeze louise what ever happened to hide and go seek ? Marco Polo ?

GET OFF MY YARD lol......

[roody]

2. Red Rover, Red Rover, let...

[steve2470]

3. yea that game too ! nt

[Isoldeblue]

4. What happened to letting kids be kids?

They are experts at entertaining themselves. Give them a box and /or some rope and they are happy as clams for hours.
Validating that sort of harsh competitive playing is just plain wrong.