Here's an idea, for anyone adventurous enough to try it. Ever heard of the game Assassin? You get a group of people with water-guns, and over the course of a designated period of time (typically a week or a few days), they try to "assassinate" each other without being caught. What's fun about this game is that, with the exception of taking time to hunt and kill your friends, it doesn't disrupt daily life.
It's quite popular on college campuses, where you have a lot of people who know each other (and all live in relatively close proximity) and have unstructured schedules with lots of free time. Not so easy with people who have day-jobs/kids/mortgages, and live and work farther apart from each other.
So here's my idea. GPS Assassin. Organize it on the web. Get 10 people, each person posts a picture and is issued a GPS tracker that they have to keep on and in their vehicle or on their person. Anyone can see anyone else's device. When you get "killed", you turn off your tracker and identify yourself as such on the site. Everyone should live and work within, I dunno, fifty miles of each other, and you'll be looking at a time frame of about a month, rather than a week or a few days.
The twist here is that with GPS, not only can you stalk your "victims", you can see who's stalking you. I think getting online in the evening to see a co-player a few blocks over and on the move could be quite exhilarating. Last man standing wins. Or spice it up, play on teams and restrict it to a week. I think there's some potential, here.
Have a good weekend, and be careful out there.
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