If you’ve been paying attention, you’d have seen me post a couple of Mario Bros. pranks recently. They’re all in good fun, just a bunch of kids making power-up blocks and hanging them around town. Well apparently some teenaged girls in a podunk Ohio town set off a bomb scare by hanging them about town, which caused local residents to overreact.
Looks like you got outta there just in time, Bongy…
Five teenage girls allegedly playing a game they learned about on the Internet could face criminal charges after leaving 17 suspicious packages throughout Ravenna.
“The girls found an Internet site called Mario Question Blocks which told you step by step how the game is played, along with instructions on wrapping the packages, just to see what kind of response you get,” McCoy said. “This game is evidently being played all over the country.”
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.”
I love the photo of the fireman disassembling the supposed “bomb” on the steps of the church.
Imagine if the girls had left a couple of Bomb-ombs around town, the shitstorm would have been unimaginable.
bannedSharkey – can you unban me, seeing as how I did absolutely nothing wrong.
This is retardedWhat the -hell- is illegal about this? They littered? I’m getting so unbelievably fed up with this culture of fear bullshit. Apparently we’re free to do anything we want, so long as we don’t -interact- with anyone.These girls could face federal charges, but the VP caps a motherfucker and gets off scott free. Have the Simian Whordes secured us Canada yet?
Yeeeeaaaaahhhh….Because accidentally shooting someone in the face is the same as terrorizing people. Yes, regardless of their intention those girls did terrorize the town.I don’t think they should be punished more than a littering fine, but don’t compare apples to horse shit.
IdiotsThey should get punished for playing such a dumb game. Losers.
Terrorize?I call bullshit. They terrorized the town? Howso? Just saying \”they terrorized the town\” doesn’t make your argument more valid than mine.And the two incidents are comparable– one is actual and realized physical danger. The other is perceived danger and an inculturated fear of the mundane -as- dangerous. How are these not on the same field? Art is terror and using a -weapon- to harm someone is…what? A cute quirk? I don’t buy it.
Quirk?I call dibs on the last slice of pizza.Put yourself in their shoes and pretend you didn’t know what SMB was, or that you didn’t recognise the design of the boxes. Don’t you think it would be odd that someone spread over a dozen of these boxes about a town?Regardless of their intention, someone found it suspicious; someone was scared by it. That’s an act of terrorism.Take the dry ice bomb for example: it’s considered a unlawful in most places, not because of its destructive ability, but because of its ability to scare people. It’s terrorism, regardless of the intention of those who made the bomb and whether or not it causes physical damage to anyone or anything.These girls didn’t intend to cause physical damage and they didn’t, but they scared people. That’s all it takes.Once again, I don’t believe they should be punished beyond a littering fine. But, don’t compare accidental injury by gunfire (or attempted murder, if you prefer) to terrorism in any form.
I’d think they were decorations.And not think twice of them. Only The Joker from Batman would wrap a bomb in such nicely colored paper. I love how you morons keep saying \”Terrorism!!11!one!\” when it was just plain stupidity eminating from the townsfolk. I don’t flip shit when my town’s street lights get wrapped in Seran Wrap every year. \”AHH THEY’RE MAKING NIGHT DARKER! TERRORISM!\”They shouldn’t even have a littering fine, it’s a good laugh and damn good prank in my opinion. Wish I’d have thought of it.
huh?What the fuck are you calling it \”terrorism\” for? Terrorism requires INTENT TO TERRORIZE. First of all, to say any of the townsfolk were \”filled with terror\” is a gross exaggeration and utterly fucking ridiculous. Secondly, if I leave my briefcase in a restaraunt by mistake and someone thinks it *MIGHT* be a bomb, I am not a fucking terrorist. Terrorism:The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.See that word? INTENT? Just shut up now. You sound ridiculous.
It seems my points are being made for meGene, by your definition, a black guy walking through a white neighborhood at night is a terrorist if he’s scaring racist soccer moms.You’re being ridiculous, but I think Pranky and Wootimov have made excellent points, so I concede to them.
DudeI was totally expecting a scathing response. Sweet. I didn’t think I’d see any maturity on a website entitled \”Badass Mofo\” 😛
Oh noes! Dont suicide bomb the museum of ceramics!If you live in Ohio and you see something suspicious, and you think even for a second that it might be terrorism, there should be a law mandating that you hit yourself in the face with a sock full of quarters. You live in Ohio. Your going to be okay.
…from side to sideI question the intelligence of people who have not heard of Super Mario Brothers. Seriously though, you’re saying that because SOMEONE found it suspicious they should be considered terrorists? Airport security thought a USB hard drive in my backpack was suspicious but their ignorance doesn’t make me a terrorist.
Wee!I apologise, I didn’t mean to imply that they are terrorists. But, they did scare people, they *did* terrorise, albiet in a small way.OMG0RZ!!!! THEIR TERRORISTS!!! HANG ‘EM!
um…Scared and terror are a fair bit different. I’m sure some people where scared but I’m also sure that if people were fleeing the town in terror the artical would have mentioned it.So in effect they did scare some people but they did not in fact \”terrorise\” them.
Imply?Imply nothing, you -said- they committed acts of terrorism.
der.penis.
Pussy America.When did our country lose its balls? We still may be #1, but pretty soon we’ll be the United States of Vaginas.
errorism bullshitJust when I think I’ve seen all that stupidity has ot offer, some stupid people have to come along and prove me wrong. This is just ridiculous.This is the problem with such blanket charges such as ‘terrosism;’ There is no single clearly defined set of actions that you can define as an ‘act of terror.’ I guarantee you that the lawbooks say nothing about hanging mario blocks around town being a criminal offense, but these kids are facing having their lives ruined because of an innocent fucking _GAME_. I imagine they peobably tresspassed a bit, and technncally littered, but even if some dickhead of a judge wanted to prosocute them on that, it’s a far cry off from federal terrorism charges. even if the charges are later dropped, or they win in court, it will drag five families through a costly ordeal that will affect them for a long time, and most likely damage them in some way for life.
Is it blue err yellow err red day? I believe this country is becoming filled with a bunch of flaming vaginas, everyone’s too PC and up tight. I understand that some elderly people could have seen the ?-mark boxes and were scared so they call the cops to investigate. Then it most likely escalated from there. But to even think to about charging these teenagers with terrorism is utterly ridiculous. Yes they probably trespassed and you could call that \”decoration\” littering but that’s as far as the law goes. Someone needs to tell these people in this bum-fuck town that it is \”yellow\” or \”green\” day. Oh yea turn off FOX news dumb shits (yes that rant was needed).