Students and Teachers Play Manhunt
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December 25, 2009
Filed under News, Sports, Top Stories
Over 100 students from various schools and five teachers participated in a game of Manhunt on Dec. 20. This was the second Manhunt involving teachers this year.
Manhunt is a game of tag involving runners and chasers. The object of the game is to get from point A to point B without getting tagged or tagging as many people as possible. Runners must only use their feet and chasers have the advantage of using cars. Once tagged, runners become chasers.
On Dec. 20, the game began at South Ponto and ended at Glen Park in Cardiff. One of the rules of this game was that runners could only be safe at the endpoint in the last 30 minutes of the game, which lasted two hours. The winner of the Manhunt was Lucas Melendez who is a junior at Carlsbad High School.
“I only saw three [chasers]. I stayed on the beach and in the shadows. I went to the river mouth, jumped the sewer ditch, hopped the train tracks and hid behind a tree for thirty minutes. It was the most fun I’ve had in a long time,” Melendez said.
All five teachers from our school including John DiGiulio, James Etheridge, Dallas Hartley, Justin Machado, and Joe McCormic made it to Glen Park without being seen or tagged.
“It’s good, clean fun. One of the advantages we had is we know all the backstreets. We’re forty and fifty year olds that didn’t get caught. Nobody came close to catching us. We used our infinite wisdom and experience,” McCormic said.
The game started off with five chaser cars. Chasers used tactics including hiding in bushes to pulling over and sneaking up on runners.
“It’s really exciting. You get to sneak up on people and be creative,” Adrianna Lucero, senior, said.
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