[dan343]

This didn't happen to me but one of my pledge brothers; probably the worst hazing I have ever heard of. While pledging we had to participate in call downs, which are random times that pledges have to come down to the house usually around 3 in the morning, and either get the shit beat out of us or sit in a small baby pool filled with ice outside in the winter. Well one night a brother decided to take it a step further. After being hit in the stomach with a chair leg my pledge brother fell to the ground, one of the older brothers decided to take this guy aside and help him out right? NO, as this happened everyone that had been yelling at us, the pledges, stopped and I remember someone whispering "shits about to hit the fan." At this time our blindfolds were taken off and I see about 100 to 120 active brothers standing around all the pledges in a circle. In the center of the circle is my pledge brother in his boxers and covered with ketchup, laundry detergent, etc. he is still blindfolded and all the pledges were told not to talk. About this time a brother comes out of the crowd with a thick black vest. He then he took off my pledge brother's blindfold and said to him, "I hope you trust kevlar?" For those of you who don't know kevlar is what bullet proof vest are made of. After asking him this he put the vest on him and took out a gun. And put the blindfold back on him. And then our blindfolds were put back on. I could still see through the blindfold I was wearing. The gun of course was just a realistic air-soft gun but none of us, the pledges, knew this. As the blind fold was put on another brother came out with a firecracker as he was coming out the other brother pushed the air-soft gun point blank into my pledge brother's chest and yelled get ready you mother ...... and they set off the firecracker at his feet. Right as the firecracker went off my pledge brother pissed his boxers and began to cry they took the blind fold off of him and showed him the firecracker and told hit the gun and everything was fake and everyone began to laugh. Needless to say he quit the next day.