Police have warned that a popular game can be treated like a real threat after a TAFE campus was put into lockdown after a girl was spotted walking around with a water pistol.
The message comes as emergency services were called to Campbelltown TAFE on Tuesday when a 16-year-old girl walked through the campus with a water pistol mistaken for a gun.
What many feared was a shooter on the loose turned out to be a teenager playing a viral TikTok game known as "Senior Assassin".
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Police addressed the concern of the game in a social media post, saying that it can be treated as a "real threat".
"From a distance, these items can look very real.
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"If someone reports a firearm to police, then we treat it as a genuine threat, and we respond accordingly," a NSW police officer said in the post.
"In that moment, we don't know it's just a game.
"A bit of fun can very quickly become a very serious situation."
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