Super Mario Scare
April 6th, 2006
Remember those golden boxes with question marks on them in Super Mario… the ones that you used to bump with your head in order to get a mushroom or a flower? Qwantz.com gives detailed instructions on how to make real life replicas of these boxes, in an effort to inspire art projects and “bring a smile to people’s faces”. One such project went one step further in Ravenna Ohio, by bringing the bomb squad too. Five girls, aged 16 and 17, decided to put a few of these up around town and are now facing criminal charges.
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.
I must sympathise with the residents of Ravenna, who were understandably panicked by the sinister packages, since there has been such an increase lately in bright yellow cardboard bombs with question marks on them.
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