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Title: Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life
Post by: wandering on April 02, 2006, 08:44:11 PM
You may have heard of a capaign of sorts to get people to make super mario bros. boxes, fill them with powerups, and hang them in public places.

Well, 2 girls tried it, and are now facing possible criminal charges for nefariously placing suspicious packages around town.

There's no way I'm not making and placing some mario boxes myself now.
Title: RE: Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life
Post by: Renny on April 02, 2006, 09:36:01 PM
Boxes with question marks? Must be bombs. Fuckin' Arabs! Zero-tolerance reactionism strikes again.
Title: RE:Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 02, 2006, 09:57:30 PM
they should have saved that prank for Revolution release week. If  people all over the country decided to do it all during the same week, that would be cause for major free publicity.
Title: RE: Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life
Post by: UncleBob on April 02, 2006, 10:17:55 PM
heh.  Someone keep an eye on this story... if charges are actually pressed against these girls, I think we all need to step up and stand up for them.  Seriously.

If I really, really wanted to leave bombs (or other dangerous materials) on someone's door step, I'd put it in a frickin' UPS box.  Not a shiney gold box with question marks on it.
Title: RE: Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life
Post by: wandering on April 02, 2006, 10:20:46 PM
Well. Unless you're The Riddler.
Title: RE:Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life
Post by: King of Twitch on April 02, 2006, 10:23:50 PM
The ter'ists have already won!
Title: RE: Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life
Post by: UncleBob on April 02, 2006, 10:26:18 PM
... or this guy...
Title: RE:Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 02, 2006, 11:00:54 PM
heheheehe
Title: RE: Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life
Post by: KDR_11k on April 02, 2006, 11:16:37 PM
Eh, I remember reenacting the jumping on Goombas in kindergarten. Okay, so we used eyeballs because none of us had a NES, we only had C64s (okay, one guy had a Master System II) and some of us had hacked versions of Giana Sisters that replaced the sisters with the Mario Bros.

But seriously, why is it illegal to put these boxes somewhere? Is that littering or what? Or have the terrorists won already and the freedom to decorate the city with questionmark boxes is taken from the people already?
Title: RE:Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life
Post by: Mario on April 03, 2006, 06:23:42 AM
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Originally posted by: BlackNMild2k1
they should have saved that prank for Revolution release week. If  people all over the country decided to do it all during the same week, that would be cause for major free publicity.

Hell yes! I'd love to organise something like this!
Title: RE: Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life
Post by: mantidor on April 03, 2006, 06:23:57 AM
haha, the kid was clueless, everyone knows Mario breaks bricks with his fist, not his head.



Title: RE: Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life
Post by: Ian Sane on April 03, 2006, 07:12:43 AM
I like how the headline reads "Girls attempt real-life version of video game" as if this is one of those violent GTA style games and they went on a killing spree.  Any time anyone talks about re-enacting a videogame in real life that's usually what they're implying.

I can see how weird boxes could cause alarm but since they weren't full of bombs and the intent of the girls seems pretty harmless I wouldn't charge them.  It's really just some kids having harmless fun that unfortunately wasn't as well thought out as it could be.  No one got hurt and no one was trying to hurt anyone.  Explain to them why it freaked everyone and tell them not to do it again and that's it.
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Post by: stevey on April 03, 2006, 01:50:06 PM
lol, I saw this on the news last night with the headlines "Old game from the 80's causes bomb threats", and they wouldn't of got an criminal charges if they fill them with gold coins.  
Title: RE: Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life
Post by: jasonditz on April 04, 2006, 11:08:49 AM
Can we confirm this is not an April Fool's Day thing? I'd be glad to make a huge fricking scandal out of this
Title: RE: Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life
Post by: KDR_11k on April 05, 2006, 12:43:17 AM
If it was an April's Fools joke the paper would have revealed that in order to not hurt theire credibility, wouldn't it?
Title: RE: Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life
Post by: jasonditz on April 05, 2006, 12:15:33 PM
It's the Beacon Journal of jerkwater Ohio, not the Chicago Tribune. I don't know how much credibility they have to start with.
Title: RE: Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life
Post by: KDR_11k on April 05, 2006, 11:44:45 PM
Even the Bild would reveal its jokes afterwards and the Bild has credibility that approaches negative infinity.
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Post by: Shecky on April 06, 2006, 04:11:22 AM
They should have known better than to leave these things on doorsteps.  At that point it seems targeted.  If I saw one of those boxes on my doorstep I'd be a bit worried even though I would know what it was in reference too.  My first thought would be, why is it on my doorstep?  Now add that their target doorsteps were locations where I would assume have no idea about what a "Mario question block" is and your just asking for trouble.

I mean really what's the difference between an unlabled brown box and one spraypainted with a question mark if you don't get the reference.  IMO the question mark makes it worse.  What would you expect to happen if they mocked them up as POW blocks instead?  That wouldn't have made it any better.  Heck, what about a TNT barrel from DK Country... I'm sure they'll get that one...  
Title: RE: Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life
Post by: 18 Days on April 06, 2006, 07:16:02 PM
Wow this is really cool. Me and my friend Steph are gunna make these en-masse and throw them all around the city. Gunna be so cool.

There's this one really old toystore that still has a giant painting of Mario on the window from back in the day. THey'll get soem. Some on the main street. A few on each university campus. It'll be a huge mission to do all this (pretty big city.)
Title: RE:Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life
Post by: wandering on April 08, 2006, 08:56:35 AM
Update: girls aren't being prosecuted.

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The girls ``were not thinking about the consequences of their actions in this day and age,'' he said.

The prosecutor said all of the girls will write letters of apology to each of the law enforcement agencies who responded to the suspicious packages.


No word yet on whether the law enforcement agencies will write letters of apology to taxpayers for being such morons.
Title: RE: Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life
Post by: Bloodworth on April 08, 2006, 12:04:51 PM
If you skim down to the bottom of the main page, you'll see that one person used coins instead.  Since they're flat, I think that would probably go over  better than a box that could have anything inside.
Title: RE: Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life
Post by: jasonditz on April 09, 2006, 07:54:25 AM
The box could have mushrooms in it though, and I'd much rather have some delicious mushrooms than some fictional coins.
Title: RE: Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life
Post by: slacker on April 10, 2006, 07:18:59 PM
This is a pretty funny, yet sad story.  It just shows that the terrorist has already succeeded and there is nothing we can do about it. Oh, well, if this teaches us anything, we should tell kids not to be kids any more and to start thinking more like adults when doing perceived fun things. Wait! I take that back, making them think like adults will probably make them more violent, manipulative, and dangerous. The last time I check, it was adults that ruined the world or at least nearly ruin the world.  Oh, well, that's life...
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Post by: IceCold on April 10, 2006, 07:39:57 PM
That's not a Super Mario Box, that's an elephant inside a boa..

Anyone? Please?
Title: RE: Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life
Post by: KDR_11k on April 10, 2006, 09:47:52 PM
The elephant in the snake looked like a hat, not like a box (le petit prince FTL). The thing that looks like a box is Snake in disguise.
Title: RE:Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life
Post by: IceCold on April 10, 2006, 09:59:32 PM
I only brought it up because of what slacker said..
Title: RE: Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life
Post by: wandering on April 10, 2006, 10:39:24 PM
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This is a pretty funny, yet sad story. It just shows that the terrorist has already succeeded and there is nothing we can do about it. Oh, well, if this teaches us anything, we should tell kids not to be kids any more and to start thinking more like adults when doing perceived fun things. Wait! I take that back, making them think like adults will probably make them more violent, manipulative, and dangerous. The last time I check, it was adults that ruined the world or at least nearly ruin the world. Oh, well, that's life...

The answer is drugs.
Title: RE: Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life
Post by: vudu on April 11, 2006, 09:00:26 AM
Alcohol:  the cause of--and solution to--all of life's problems.