You Got the Power Up!
Five teenage girls from Ohio followed the instructions on that “create your own Super Mario blocks” website and left 17 power-ups around their home town. Instead of being hailed as heros, they’re facing potential criminal charges for leaving “suspicious packages” lying around.
Dumb cops; don’t they want giant mushrooms and extra mans?
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.
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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.
