Homemade Super Mario Question Mark Boxes Bring in Bomb Squad

Posted Apr 2, 2006 at 5:06PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Wii, Nintendo DS Tags:
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Ever wanted to make your own Super Mario World? Well be careful because five teenage girls from Portage County, Ohio face potential criminal charges after attempting to play a real-life version of Super Mario Bros. The Portage County Hazardous Materials Unit and Bomb Detection Unit were called in to downtown Ravenna on Friday morning after seventeen suspicious packages -- boxes wrapped in gold wrapping paper with question marks spray painted on them -- had alarmed residents.


Five girls -- age 16 and 17 -- claimed responsibility for making and placing the packages. The girls said they found an Internet site that included step-by-step instructions for creating replicas of blocks featured in the game.

The Ravenna Police Department will be working with the Portage County Prosecutor's Office regarding possible criminal charges as a result of the game.


 
 
 

Comments

by Branden - 2006-04-02 17:30:18
haha

thats so jokeS lol :D
by nightshade15 - 2006-04-02 17:37:45
this is...

One of the worst mistakes i've heard of... 16 year old girls made the bomb squad come with their "Dirty Block Bombs". This wants to make me puke.
by - 2006-04-02 17:39:39
notitle

er you should delete this. It's an April's Fool and you're posting it on the 2nd :(
by - 2006-04-02 23:42:58
first GTA, now SMB.

Jack Thompson, where are you?
by - 2006-04-03 09:44:52
DISGRACE!

THIS IS A TOTAL LOAD OF BS! Who in their right mind would have criminal charges?!?!!? Total disgrace, next thing you know, they're press charges with kids playing tag cause it involes contact.
by - 2006-04-03 09:44:52
DISGRACE!

THIS IS A TOTAL LOAD OF BS! Who in their right mind would have criminal charges?!?!!? Total disgrace, next thing you know, they're press charges with kids playing tag cause it involes contact.
by - 2006-04-03 11:37:00
Stupid

If this is indeed real, then that is just stupid beyond words... Poor girls.
by - 2006-04-03 11:57:20
I hope for a lol...

I hope this is just a joke... If it is, LOL! If not, that is so sad...
by - 2006-04-03 15:44:10
real

this is real, it was on my news this morning, i live in cleveland, thats why it was on my news, they shouldnt face charges for it though, i dont think they wanted to blow people up
by - 2006-04-04 03:09:49
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its sadthat we can no longer see innocent and fun things anymore.... creativity and fun are thrown away because of a few idiotic people in the neighborhood who apparently never heard of super mario bros. bet you it was a bunch of elderly people who called inthe suspicious packages.. "911? OMG theres cardboard boxes hanging from my tree and they have ? on them!!! osama is in my neighborhood!! there trying to bomb my house from my tree!! help meeeee!!!" ugh.
by - 2006-04-04 03:43:33
Pfft

Very much an example of what America has come to. Constant paranoia led an innocent joke to be viewed as some sort of bomb threat.
by - 2006-04-04 15:26:25
lol

lol i live like less than an hour away from ravenna! i wish i could have seen them. and the local news didn't report this at all.
by - 2006-04-04 15:26:26
lol

lol i live like less than an hour away from ravenna! i wish i could have seen them. and the local news didn't report this at all.
by - 2006-04-04 15:26:27
lol

lol i live like less than an hour away from ravenna! i wish i could have seen them. and the local news didn't report this at all.
by - 2006-04-04 15:26:30
lol

lol i live like less than an hour away from ravenna! i wish i could have seen them. and the local news didn't report this at all.
by Scaffer - 2006-04-11 12:07:12
silly sh.t

thats so sad,i bet that,if i were to try this in my neighborhood it would never happen,but then again,i do live in Canada!

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