Lunch Club! The Real-Life Hunger Games Summer Camp In Florida Will Not End Well
So whose brilliant idea was this?
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As if school camps weren’t already a terrifying ordeal, a summer camp in Florida is offering kids the chance to participate in a real life version of The Hunger Games. Yep.
In the dystopian young adult novels, kids are dropped into the middle of the wilderness in order to hunt and kill each-other; at Hunger Games Camp, kids are encouraged to do the same, although instead of actual murdering and dismemberment, they steal a series of flags from each-other.
This seems like a very good idea and something that will definitely end well, because in no way are kids violent, sadistic little twerps.
“Keeping the kids from talk of murder would prove difficult,” writes Tampa Bay’s Lisa Gartner, after spending a week at the camp. Her story ends with a small boy falling over and being stomped on.