Residents alarmed; teens could be charged
Beacon Journal staff report
Five teenage girls from Portage County face potential criminal charges after attempting to play a real-life version of Super Mario Bros.
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.
Boxes were found at the Immaculate Conception Church on West Main Street, the Portage County Courthouse, Deluxe Pastries, the corner of Cherry Way and Main Street, Reed Memorial Library, Ravenna High School and a residence at Sanford and Main streets.
Five girls -- age 16 and 17 -- claimed responsibility for making and placing the packages. The girls said they found an Internet site that included step-by-step instructions for creating replicas of blocks featured in the game.
The Ravenna Police Department will be working with the Portage County Prosecutor's Office regarding possible criminal charges as a result of the game.
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Anonymous2006-04-02 18:02
April Fool's Day was yesterday.
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Anonymous2006-04-02 18:04
I hope they hang the evil terrorists. They killed my brother.
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Anonymous2006-04-03 8:55
girls and computer games. tss, tss
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Anonymous2006-04-03 13:13
lol paranoid amerikkkans.
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Anonymous2006-04-03 16:07
What's in the box...BOOM! lol
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Anonymous2006-04-03 18:33
Link to website where you can make these things?
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Anonymous2006-04-04 16:04
You know that this is a fake since there are no girls on the interbutt.
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Anonymous2006-04-05 11:38
this shows people that women cannot be trusted with anything, plz take away sufferage and bring them back to their place!
Of course yeah USA so bad, why they only saved worthless euro asses in world war II, saved worthless euro asses again from Communisim, and now they are saving worthless euro asses from islamofascists, so it seem the only problem is America trying to save worthless euro trash, so Fuck europe!
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IIDX_tatsujin2006-04-05 16:16
where have all the real criminals gone? I remember back in the day when there would be a jack in the box holding a grenade or some crap like that. This was a thrilling idea! Gold boxes with question marks on them!? They make the victim curios and weary! Genius!
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Anonymous2006-04-05 16:28 (sage)
>>12
Well at least we still have something worth saving or else you would have bombed us already. You need us more than you think retarded redneck.
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Anonymous2006-04-05 17:21
>>12
Come on. You know you really want to be European. What about when France saved your ass in your little temper-tantrum against the British Empire?
Where would you be without beautiful France? Perhaps the French should have allied with the British or stayed out, and let the colonies fend for themselves?
I guess it had nothing to do with France wanting to give the Brits a kick while they were down, eh? However, they did help and that debt has been repaid in WWII.
Exactly, That's why I'll hear none of that "Well, We saved your ass in WWII so Fuck You Europe" rubbish. If it weren't for European help, There wouldn't even be a America as it is today. >>12 Needs to be thinking about who might have to save his ass in WWIII.
btw, The Brits were winning up until France came and saved the America's bacon.
Yeah, but people still have grandparents alive today who have fought that war. You can find no such person for the Revolutionary War unless they are an immortal. At least the French back then had some guts. Americans do not want to hear the modern day cowardly French give lectures. That is what burns American bacon.
They do to me. I wonder how many of them have jobs. Anyway, when I said guts, I meant guts against a foreign enemy. The French protesting amongst themselves is a national past time.
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Anonymous2006-04-05 20:53
The French has not been a formidable military power since WWI. They were even still using rank and file maneuvers at the beginning of that war. Versus maxim guns!
But I think if they were put to the blade, they would be able to defend themselves these days. At least better than Iraq did during the US invasion...
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Anonymous2006-04-06 0:33
French? Jesus how branched off can people go beacuse of a mario block terrorism thread