An annual game involving high school students, which sometimes raises concern among homeowners, is underway across Metro Detroit.
Water Wars involves teams of students who try to spray other competitors with water to eliminate them from the game.
At times, students will lurk outside of their classmates homes or work.
Local police departments are aware of the games and ask students to be responsible. Schools do not sanction the event, and there can be consequences at school or with police, according to Warren Police Lt. John Gajewski.
"If you're standing in a roadway or doing some sort of civil infraction type behavior it can have some consequences," Gajewski told WWJ's Tony Ortiz.
Still Gajewski says they want kids to have fun.
"It is fun, the kid in all of us wants to focus on the fun side of it, that's important but it can be dangerous certainly if your driving or if somebody is unsuspecting coming up or down some stairs, it can have some serious consequences and that's what we want to balance," he said.
As for people reporting suspicious activity to police, Gajewski says if anyone sees something suspicious they should always call police.
"We would rather have it be something as insignificant as a kid with a squirt gun versus something very significant that we get to when seconds matter," he said, adding Warren police haven't taken any calls yet, but "it's still early."
Warren Police also talk about the water wars as a training scenario because police never know what a call will be and they can't jump to conclusions.
"If we get a call about somebody with a gun or something we are going to respond as if its authentic until proven otherwise," he said adding "our goal isn't to penalize youths for being youths, everybody here in this department was a kid once themselves so its maintaining that balance and discretion."
