‘Vigilante’ game best-seller
NZPA-Reuter New York One of the hottest selling items in New York this Christmas is a new board game inspired by a subway rider who shot four youths he said were trying to rob him. The “Subway Vigilante” game is based on the case of Bernhard Goetz, an electronics engineer who shot and wounded the youths on the underground rail system in December last year. The board game is played with dice and sells for SUSIO: ($2O), or- twice the amount the youths are said to have demanded from ** their intended victim. Goetz, aged 39, won the support of many subway
riders fed up with muggings on the underground. He is now on bail facing attempted murder and a judge will decide next month whether to proceed against him or drop the charges. >;/; The game, devised by a New York accountant, has a board depicting a New York subway map. Each player gets markers in the form of guns, knives and bullets with which to kill muggers. The winner is . the first to get from Manhattan to the neighbouring Bronx without being killed. ; A spokesman for one, store said, “The game is proving - ( a best-seller. We cannot get enough of them to meet the demand.”
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