Police Ask Hartland Students To Stop Playing Naked 'Nerf Wars'

WAUKESHA COUNTY, WI—Village of Hartland Police are asking Arrowhead High School students to talk about playing "Nerf Wars" game safely.

Nerf is a manufacturer of outdoor toys, including spongy footballs and spring-loaded toy guns that shoot foam and plastic darts.

The game is also called "Paranoia," or sometimes "Assassin," and it started out as a fairly innocent game, like hide and seek but with foam bullets, according to a 2013 Brookfield Patch story. The report said one rule is players can't "kill" someone who had no clothes on.

Police posted a Facebook message directed at parents.

"While we encourage students to have fun we want them to play safe, and each year we have calls for students playing this game nude.

THIS is not ok and could be exposing themselves to children and other citizens. If you are a parent of an AHS student please warn them they could be arrested and issued citations (if playing nude).

We also want don't want them trespassing or causing traffic related issues while playing this game, so please play safely," the post said.