At least they weren't trying to pull off a real life verion of "Frogger" on the freeway.
Charges? Are you kidding me?
Let me get this twisted country right....
Illegal is legal as long as you can get away with it. But, playing a game, although some were concerned about the boxes, can land you in jail even after it is found to be harmless?
Classic....simply classic.
Idiots in charge PING
What on earth would they be charged with? Did the boxes have bombs in them? I really don't understand.
20 million illegal alien criminal invaders dont scare the authoritites one bit...in fact they embrace them and their Mexican flags on US soil and in their institutions...and their crimes dont get enforced...
But gold foil packages with ? marks on them....
Scare the Krap out of 'em...American kids (must be 'Anglos')
them..they arrest...
Considering the light penalties given to women who kill their kids, I wouldn't be too worried about the penalties here.
Hmm... ping.
I'm surprised girls that age would even know about Super Mario Brothers. I was around twelve when those games were popular (my thirtieth birthday is coming up this summer).
Good news:
Girls that scare town with Super Mario power-up cubes will not be charged
As we reported previously: Five girls from Ravenna, Ohio placed 17 cardboard replications of the Super Mario power-up cubes throughout their town. The town has a population of approximately 12,000 people, some of which felt threatened by the power-up cubes and called in the bomb squad.
The prosecutor has decided not to press changes against the girls. “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.”
I think this is good news – their intent was not to scare anyone so they should not be punished. They sure did give Nintendo some free publicity though. Whether it was good or bad publicity is debatable.
http://onnintendo.com/Index.aspx?page=1&post=20&year=2006&month=4