Teen run over by car while playing "Nerf Wars" in central Minnesota, police say
Police in central Minnesota say teens were playing a popular game when a car ran over one of them Saturday afternoon.
The Sauk Rapids Police Department says a group of high schoolers were playing "Nerf Wars" near South Side Park shortly before 3 p.m. when a 16-year-old boy's friend drove a vehicle over him. The boy had been hiding on the ground next to the vehicle at the time of the accident.
A passerby treated the boy at the scene before he was transported to the St. Cloud Hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening.
Police advise parents to stop playing the game "before there is a fatality." Additionally, they warned some of the activities involved in "Nerf Wars" could be "considered at minimum a crime of disorderly conduct."
Two teenage boys were
killed in a crash in Lakeville while playing the game
nearly 10 years ago. A year later, two bystanders were injured in New Hope after students playing the game caused a crash.
Last year, Eden Prairie police
issued a warning
about teens participating in "Nerf Wars" after receiving nearly a dozen calls from concerned residents.
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