Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Kickin Around an Idea For a New Theme Park Attraction

I have been thinking a lot after reviewing the number of unarmed tourist that have been robbed at gunpoint or shot by thugs here in Orlando, as well as the most recent shooting incident this week. I was thinking that maybe they should open up a new adventure attraction in one of the major theme parks here in O-Town, to help revive the failing tourist trade. The name of the attraction could be titled Last Man Standing or Shoot House. For the readers who are not firearms enthusiasts with an understanding of combat training, a shoot house is a facility where a person trains for close quarter battle using a firearm. It is a building filled with rooms that have targets, which simulates a combat situation in a close urban environment. The shooter has to rapidly move from room to room clearing the building and quickly read and react to identify whether the silhouette type targets that they encounter (some are motorized or pop ups) are friendly or combatant, and then based on that, make the decision to engage the target or just keep moving forward to the next room. In some shoot house drills, two competitors wearing protective equipment hunt each other using special ammo known as marking rounds. When you are hit with one of these projectiles, it marks you with a colored paint to let you know that you were hit and where the round would have entered, thus clearly identifying the winner and consequently the loser of the competition. Since the local thugs, or Domestic Urban Terrorists / Orlando Insurgents as I like to call them enjoy terrorizing and robbing unarmed tourists in the parking lots with firearms, why not invite them into the Shoot House and give them a chance actually earn their money while proving their manhood. The theme parks could set up this new attraction where adventure tourists and firearms enthusiasts could test their skills against real thugs, but in this case the competitors would of course be firing real rounds. They could have cameras throughout the Shoot House as well as having the contestants wearing helmet cams, and then show the edited footage on a reality television series. If the thugs win, they get to keep the wallet and other valuables of the tourist as they normally do. If they lose well….next contestant please!! What do you think?

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