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Chem Light War!!! (pics included)
Hi to all... it’s quite a long read... I think it's worth it..
Holy shit... the craziest night... 10-19-05 9pm-1145pm
Ok... so its like 9pm and I’m playing poker outside b/c the power people are going to shut our power off for a while to do some work on the power lines... sure whatever.. we get some flashlights and no problem...
Then it all starts... b/c we are military we have chem lights (or glow sticks, whatever you want to call them) which aren’t your club variety style... these are the super bright beacon of light style that last just a few hours... so some dudes crack them open b/c they don’t have flashlights... then next thing I know as I'm playing poker a chem light goes flying from one walkway of our trailers as if somebody threw it.. of course... I'm like WTF.. whatever some dude is being a yayhoo.. then next thing I know I see a blue one, red one,.. green.. then the beacon of light 30min super white ones.. 5minutes later is a free for all with about 50 chem lights all flying in the air... it was a crazy sight.. I folded my hands of poker so fast just so I could get in on the action...
Well let me set the scene.. about 20 trailers are on one side of the street called a Pod.. which is our company of about 80 soldiers, (only about 35 were home) and across the street is another Pod with a company with roughly the same amt of people... it was a friendly came of weeee lets bombard them with chem lights and be truccos...
Then it happens...a chem light breaks... I’m like oh well.. a busted one.. bummer.. less to throw... not so fast.... next thing I know I see a busted chem light with all its nuclear glowing style juice spewing out all over tarnation... then another breaks... then another.. the walk way that was our aiming point to the other Pod is now lit up like a christmas tree... rocks, the trailers, or doors, even some of us got a little on us... then the throwing ceases for a bit... hmmm wonder why...
Both companies (about 30 people a piece at this time) are now planning attacks on each other... some people are sabotaging their bodies as shields so others can pour,.. yes pour the chem juice all on the others or throw an open chem light at them... I'm sure you see where this is going by now... about 50 chem lights are everywhere.. and I mean everywhere.. the street in-between is a battle zone.. shrapnel (busted empty chem lights), juice, and rappers (the packaging of the lights) is littered everywhere... then people get creative... the knives come out to open these chem lights before they are even tossed once... so now we are throwing a brand new chem light just cracked open and then cut open for assault... by this time about 8 dudes are covered in the juice.. like a walking chem light.. and others have light spackles... oh.. bummer we are out... it seems as if everybody is going back to their rooms and calling it a night (remember, the power is still out, no running water, no AC, no nothing.. our rooms are black holes and worthless to go in at this point, no showers either b/c of the lack of water b/c of the power)... but no.. each company's supply sergeants are off also involved with the fun but off to the warehouse to get a re-supply... HOLY MARY MOTHER OF GOD... the cases are busted lose... THOUSANDS AND I MEAN THOUSANDS of chem lights have been brought to our disposable... people are taking 1.5 liter water bottles and cutting the tops off and dumping out the water and filling them with hundreds of chem light juice... its a frickin free for all... and yes.. their supply sergeant did the same for them...
So lets picture our scene here... 30 dudes vs. 30 dudes... about 50% of each is covered in glow juice in all nooks and crevices of their bodies... and the walkways which are rocks are completely glowing and the walls of the trailers are sprayed with arrays of colors...
Ok so here is where I come in... I've abandoned the poker game.. just gave up my $10 entry fee.. hell I didn’t care at this point... I toss a few at the beginning... as an innocent bystander.. then some guy blind sides me as I go out in to "no man's land" (the center road between the Pods) b/c lots of "fallen ammo" is lying to be picked up and possibly reused again even if the juice is gone... b/c a flying chem light filled or unfilled still glows.. so BAM... I’m frickin Homer Simpson's nuclear rod meandering in a daze b/c I just get nailed.. whatever.. I rally and regroup with my company... I sneak across the street undetected and hide behind a dirt barrier w/ like 7 half filled opened chem lights... I turn and hurl them at all those guys.. they bum rush me and capture me and are shouting "Prisoner!!" the pull out teh Zip Strips and tie me up... then the shaving cream comes out and about 20 glow sticks poured all over me... you can see me for miles now... I managed to slip out b/c I’m all shaving creamed up and start running... they manage to track me down 2 blocks away still tied up and still glowing..(this was quite a site to teh people who were half asleep and heard us yelling, they come out side and see a glowing solider tied up with another glowing soldier chasing him,.. ya.. that’s a serious "what the fuck" kinda look).. I run out of gas and they nab me... ok they finally let me go when they realize they can’t do much more with me... so I go back...to see our supply sergeant and commander’s gunner dressed up as Ninjas... head to toe in all black with just the slits for eyes... bandanas, black shoes, the whole 9 yards.. unfortunately they seemed more wanting to do Ninja skills and to be sneaky than to do any actual chem light throwing... they didn't do much but look frickin bad ass..and of course supply us with a scillion chem lights..
So those water bottles with the hundreds of chem lights in it... we are at a sort of truce kinda laughing and seeing what other company we can get,..(we've kinda formed an alliance at this point)... standing in teh street BS'ing.. a car drives by innocently.. whatever we part the road and then BAM a FUCKIN DRIVE BY nails the other guys... they didn’t know what hit them... a small retaliation was administered but nothing too major,..our guys are like what the fuck... OMG... so they sprint after with the truck with teh bottles of the juice and pour it in the window, on teh hood, on the roof,, everywhere... we now have a glowing truck... the driver and passenger get out and the chem light juice pours off their pants.... we were all cheering and yelling...
Then things died down and many cameras came out and pictures were taken and funny things drawn on each other... some people are practically blind b/c the juice got in their eyes..(me included),.. its now been 2hrs and my lips are still tingling from it....
To sum it all up... 1 broken ankle.. 7 or 8 cuts with decent bloodage...3 twisted knees... and a whole lot of bad tastes in mouths.... and about an area where 30 trailers would fit... all smells of broken chem lights...
I have showered and I still reek of chem light juice,.. and BTW.. the power did come back on eventually... and we still have 300-400 chem lights we didn’t get to use... we all ran out of steam...
I’m done and thanks for reading.... our internet is out now.. so I typed this the night of so I wouldn’t forget anything...
Best night I've had in years... sober... and non-musically of course....
ZEWAD
im on left for those who dont know... and b/c of the flash you cant see the juice...
these pictures were near impossible to take... my head was glowing and chest but only our legs and some of our shirts showed up... my head was glowign too
not my ankle
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