the best one was when one day on the radio there was a warning that some armed fugitives were loose in the area. The camp decided to use this to break out color-war. That night, a madrich came running into the building, pale and shaken – saying that four masked men had entered the campus. The campers were all sent to their rooms, with a madrich. The head counselor ‘called the police’ before sending everybody to their rooms with clear instructions of what to do if the men confronted them. The campers were all petrified. Some were saying tehillim. A loud noise was coming from one area in the garden, with a lot of banging.
A group of campers had found out accidentally that color war outbreak was that night, and figured it out. They took water pistols which looked very real, put on masks and slipped out of the building. Then they came hollering up the path, and banged on the door. Suddenly the head counselor got all scared because there were no men – the radio report was true but the camp had just sent one madrich to make some noise outside. All the staff got a shock when four campers waving guns bashed on the door!!! They were calling the police when the guys screamed ‘COLOR WAR’ and everybody had a laugh, including the counselors!!