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Attack of the Mario Power-Up Cubes
Status: Misinterpreted April Fool's Day Prank
This story offers a sad commentary on the state of affairs in America. Five teenage girls living in Ravenna, Ohio got into the spirit of April 1st by decorating a few public places in their town with brightly colored boxes designed to look like the power-up cubes in the Super Mario Bros. game (the ones you jump up to hit and get extra energy). They got the idea from qwantz.com. Local residents who didn't recognize what the boxes were supposed to be weren't amused and called out the bomb squad. And it seems like the police are coming down pretty hard on the girls:[Ravenna Police Chief] McCoy said even though no harm was intended by the girls, they could face criminal charges for their actions. “The potential is always present when dealing with a suspicious package that it could be deadly,” McCoy said. “In today’s day and age, you just cannot do this kind of stuff.”... McCoy said the incident will be referred to the Portage County Prosecutor’s Office for possible charges against the girls.
Lots of blogs are posting this story, and it seems like everyone agrees that the police seem to be overreacting. The incident reminds me of April 1, 2003 when seven young guys were charged with making terrorist threats because they posted signs reading "All your base are belong to us" around Sturgis, Michigan.
Update: It seems that the prosecutor has decided not to charge the girls with any crime: "The girls were imitating an art project which they found on the Internet,” the prosecutor said. “None of the girls had any prior contacts with the police or juvenile court and are all good students.”
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Categories: April Fools Day, Hate Crimes/Terror Posted by Alex on Wed Apr 05, 2006 |
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Seems like Mario has enough trouble, now when he wants to power up he has to wait for a Rainbow Six team to clear the package. I think I saw Sam Fisher inspecting Sonic's shoes before getting on an airplane. Thankfully all our base are not belong to terrorists, imagine what they could do with all our base.
Posted by Lonewatchman on Wed Apr 05, 2006 at 01:33 AM
Hey, you can't blame the cops for this one. I mean, if you were a terrorist, wouldn't YOU plant your evil Weapons of Mass Destruction all around town in golden boxes with question marks on them, making them look as if they belonged to The Riddler from Batman?
Posted by Cranky Media Guy on Wed Apr 05, 2006 at 03:11 AM
Counter Terrorists win.
[*DEAD*]T-Mario: OMG this map sucks!
[*DEAD*]T-Luigi: they were haxing!!1
CT-Officer 1: oh yeah 1 sec left difuse!
[*DEAD*]T-Mario: OMMMMG!!!!!11 i had no money left!
[*DEAD*]T-Luigi: they haaaaaaaaaaaaaaax!!!!!11
[*DEAD*]T-MarioGurrrl: omg im quitting u suck stupid lag omg...
CT-Officer 2: LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL rage quit!!!
Okay seriously, that is taking it a bit too far. I suppose dressing up as the Doom Marine and hunting my friends dressed as Imps is out of the question. :(
Posted by Soldant in Brisbane on Wed Apr 05, 2006 at 06:18 AM
[*DEAD*]T-Mario: OMG this map sucks!
[*DEAD*]T-Luigi: they were haxing!!1
CT-Officer 1: oh yeah 1 sec left difuse!
[*DEAD*]T-Mario: OMMMMG!!!!!11 i had no money left!
[*DEAD*]T-Luigi: they haaaaaaaaaaaaaaax!!!!!11
[*DEAD*]T-MarioGurrrl: omg im quitting u suck stupid lag omg...
CT-Officer 2: LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL rage quit!!!
Okay seriously, that is taking it a bit too far. I suppose dressing up as the Doom Marine and hunting my friends dressed as Imps is out of the question. :(
"Oh my god Irene! Look, Marios come back from the dead and he's out to get us after I crashed his red car into a wall during a tournament game in MarioKart! It might be a banana peel or something! Don't touch it!"
1-800-BOMB-SQUAD
because you'll never know we your childish fears take advantage of you...
Posted by Blood For Nothing in Somewhere in the Arctic on Wed Apr 05, 2006 at 09:00 AM
1-800-BOMB-SQUAD
because you'll never know we your childish fears take advantage of you...
this seems to be a trend in the states now..
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-331bombscare,0,4231404.story?coll=sfla-news-florida
Posted by mrkurto on Wed Apr 05, 2006 at 09:03 AM
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-331bombscare,0,4231404.story?coll=sfla-news-florida
It's sad that millions of kids are blowing things up daily and getting away with it because their bombs don't look like bombs (pop bottles filled with explosive things are popular), but these girls are getting in trouble for attaching something that may vaguely look like a bomb to light poles.
Posted by Dracul on Wed Apr 05, 2006 at 03:40 PM
Odd. I live right by Ravenna, and I haven't heard about this.
Posted by Iria on Wed Apr 05, 2006 at 04:20 PM
We're turning into a nation of wusspusses whose obsessive terrorphobia is slowly eroding any respect the rest of the planet has for us.
Posted by martinelli on Wed Apr 05, 2006 at 08:30 PM
The problem is we want keep to a reactive response to terrorism, so we end up looking foolish trying to clean up anything a terrorist might have left. What we need is a proactive response, which means a terrorist life expectancy should be nil. Natural selection has been put on hold as people decide self defense is too mean.
Posted by Lonewatchman on Wed Apr 05, 2006 at 09:26 PM
OH MY GOSH!! I posting in a box...there might be a...BOMB...IN IT!!!! Quick, someone come difuse this test box!
Posted by Maegan in Tampa, FL - USA on Wed Apr 05, 2006 at 10:35 PM
Hmm. . .well, the police did the right thing as far as treating the packages with suspicion and checking them out. As for punishing the girls, though, they've probably already been punished enough just by having to answer to the police and the fear of being prosecuted. Anything more than a stern lecture would really be taking things too far against them.
Posted by Accipiter on Thu Apr 06, 2006 at 01:20 AM
martinelli said:
"We're turning into a nation of wusspusses whose obsessive terrorphobia is slowly eroding any respect the rest of the planet has for us."
Yeah, but other than that...
Actually, I completely agree with you, martinelli. I'm ashamed of my generation for turning into a bunch of assholes scared of their own shadows who want to wrap their kids in bubble wrap and hide, cringing behind the curtains, in the false "safety" of their gated communities.
Posted by Cranky Media Guy on Thu Apr 06, 2006 at 03:50 AM
"We're turning into a nation of wusspusses whose obsessive terrorphobia is slowly eroding any respect the rest of the planet has for us."
Yeah, but other than that...
Actually, I completely agree with you, martinelli. I'm ashamed of my generation for turning into a bunch of assholes scared of their own shadows who want to wrap their kids in bubble wrap and hide, cringing behind the curtains, in the false "safety" of their gated communities.
That's so sad. I laughed out loud when I read about what they'd done, thinking it was really clever but obviously the cops don't share that sense of humour.
Posted by Nettie in Perth, Western Australia on Thu Apr 06, 2006 at 06:29 AM
Go to the link and See some of the examples 
Posted by Mollie on Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 07:25 PM
Posted by Mollie on Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 07:26 PM
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