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- rudolphdude, on 10/12/2007, -11/+341How ***** dare you call out my people. I lost three good men to a power-up cube.
- mikm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+64But what if they contained purple poison mushrooms? You wouldn't be laughing ot off THEN.
- Wamzlee, on 10/12/2007, -5/+63I must comment and say that Rudolphdude's comment is perhaps the best comment I have seen on digg yet.
Also, in relations to the article...I can see how people can get paranoid with boxes with "question marks" on them, because...who knows whats inside? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+58You know, sometimes I have to jump 15 ft in the air to hit one of these things with my head and I get pissed when nothing good comes out. Landing really hurts my feet.
- Gills, on 10/12/2007, -63/+117hooray for stupid paranoid Americans
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+56Why would you actually think they were bombs? Who puts bombs in golden question mark boxes? The ***** riddler?
- Flashman, on 10/12/2007, -4/+44Hooray for original article links: http://www.recordpub.com/article.php?pathToFile=archive/04012006/news/&file=_news1.txt&article=1&tD=04012006
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38I like how it was a group of girls that did this...
- antipro, on 10/12/2007, -4/+33I love the discription.
Way better than "title says it all" - imdwalrus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27Oh please.
I live in Michigan - yes, north of Ohio - and we've got rednecks. They exist EVERYWHERE. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Unfortunately I live in this area, you wouldnt believe what some of the redneck residents are saying on the local news. That these girls should be jailed for "threatening public security".
The response to this explains alot about what is wrong with our country. People are looking for witches to burn - and are willing to throw away your rights, and all of common sense, just to see people getting locked up. - jgstew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18In response someone needs to make "bombs" like in games/cartoons... .you know the ones that look like a bowling ball with a wick in it... See if that gets a reaction. Perhaps it's taken more seriously when its just a "?", and then people just don't get it.
- Mongoose, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16lmao!!! I love the quote:
“The girls found an Internet site called Mario Question Blocks which told you step by step how the game is played, along with instructions on wrapping the packages, just to see what kind of response you get,” McCoy said. “This game is evidently being played all over the country.”
Priceless - UGM2099, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16guaranteed there are thousands of nerds who wish they knew these 5 girls.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17blame your government and the media for breeding a climate of fear.
on the other side, yes small town people do seem to be amazingly stupid at times. in a town i used to live in here in australia, they evacuated a plane during the anthrax out break in the USA when i woman thought her inflight dohnut had too much icing sugar on it, and they also closed the entire airport when someone dropped a dildo into the bin and it went off.
same town both times, they are known for being retards. - rhawk301, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Nobody mentioned this yet, but the Police Chief McCoy is quoted "Even though no harm was intended by the girls, they could face criminal charges for their actions".
Ummm, hello? Does it seem like police departments and public prosecutors nationwide are criminalizing anything regardless of intent? It seems to me that trends like this tend to get far worse sooner than later. We end up in a police state and martial law, without an actual declaration from the powers that be. Just keep tightening down the system, and soon EVERYONE will become a criminal. Then it makes it really easy to tell everyone a part. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12How about a new one. "Title says it all. Description says it again."
- SniperGX1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14they will be in gitmo before you know it
- Craig1394, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I think the five girls are the only people in that town that should be allowed in public unsupervised.
- tempusrob, on 10/12/2007, -10/+19It's all about context ... if I'd never played Super Mario Brothers (and lets' face it, NOT everyone has) I'd sure as hell be slightly bugged out about "mystery boxes" sitting in front of buildings.
- geoboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Come on, Skettalee. If that was a joke it was pretty stupid. I live in a small town of 3500. How does that make me cut off from the rest of the "real world"? We have video games and TV and internet connections in small towns too, you know.
- generalleoff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I live in Toledo just over the Michigan border. TONS of rednecks.
- quietk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8This just makes me want to make some cubes
- Skettalee, on 10/12/2007, -15/+22Meaning that its some crappy litle bitty town that knows nothing about the real world. LOL
- madholepunch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7*tsk*... and they were so close to getting 100 coins...
- emiles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7In the longer version of the article, the guy says "in today's day and age..."
I think today's day is just called today. - mtbz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7This isn't as bad as the "bike bomb" scare at ohio university:
http://thepost.baker.ohiou.edu/show_news.php?article=N2&date=032906
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/news-story.php?story=176252 - norml2000, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Just another fine example of how the Bush administration has instilled fear into all of the citizens of this country. Now some poor girls are gonna be treated as criminals while the real criminal holds office for a couple more years.
- pentomino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I saw this on the news even here in Phoenix. An old woman was pictured saying "If we let them get away with this, oh, ha ha, they'll think this is some kind of practical joke." Well, if this isn't a practical joke, what is?
After they had read the copy for the video that was no doubt sent to them, the news anchors exchanged agreements that, maybe ten years ago this might have been "oh, ha ha," but post-9/11, nope. Never mind that it's been four and a half years since a terrorist has attacked, and that conspicuous and whimsical objects aren't their M.O. even in the places they're blowing up regularly.
That's twice "ha ha" was used as a word by people devoid of humor. - rrbaker, on 01/15/2009, -3/+9Oh, silly small town folk. In the city we call the police for bomb-ombs only.
- kindrobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"I'm-a the terrorist!"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6i saw that as well. unfortunately the people that i was with while we watched were agreeing with the comments. we had a long discussion about it, but it ended up with them basically accusing me of being some sort of pinko. people need to take it easy. the news media has us all whipped into a paranoid terror frenzy. it's ohio. cool out.
- clevershark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Good thing they didn't start planting 1up mushrooms, the country's alertness level might have been raised!
- kindrobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Even though no harm was done, someone has to pay for making us look silly.
That's the bottom line. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6nit? wtf. you telling me these idiot savants didn't even bother to ask around? not like it's that hard to find out, considering these boxes were made and set up by little children.
Yeah, that's right officer, I saw these ah rab guys put a bunch of power ups in thar trees. lol. - sfacets, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11They did a "Tuttle :)
- DougPenn, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11"Leaving suspicious packages is enough to scare the dickins [sic] out of anyone" - I think he should be the new mayor of Tuttle, Oklahoma.
- klept, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12I am Jerry Taylor of Tuttle OK.. Before I became the IT wiz of Tuttle and had 22, or was it 24, years of computer xp, I was born and raised in Ravenna.
We were a nice, quiet town. You could hear the paint dry. And shucks, if someone had a flat tire that WAS exciting.
Then we were digged. Those girls should be tarred and feathered, and run out on a rail. But only after we've called the FBI. - randomc0de, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9@koshak
You lose for being an uninformed citizen. More people have been killed by US soldiers in Iraq than by terrorist attacks in the United States. That is a fact. You can "walk right up to it and open them up!" and be 99.999999999999% sure it is not a bomb. Do the math. - supersocialist, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Actually, you can be too careful. That was it.
- mccoma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6McCoy said even though no harm was intended by the girls, they could face criminal charges for their actions.
"The potential is always present when dealing with a suspicious package that it could be deadly,%u201D McCoy said. %u201CIn today's day and age, you just cannot do this kind of stuff."
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So, its come to this. I really, honestly blame the school systems for not teaching basic logic and problem solving. In what universe is a terrorist group going to attack a small town in Ohio with golden boxes with questions marks on them? The only charge I can even stretch my mind to think of is littering.
This is the midwest, I thought we were made of sterner stuff. I grew up in ND and no one I know would think anything other then "hum, lot of effort there".
I think Mr. McCoy should move south and get acquainted with an equally stupid city manager. I submit that if a group of girls can't pull this stunt in a small town in Ohio, then (to overuse a phrase) "the damn terrorists won and liberty did end on 9/11". - perryge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Stupid, ignorant small town...now that they've taken the power-up cubes down, where the hell are they gonna get their fire flowers from when the goombas attack?!?! They're so screwed...
I'd pray for them, but I might get arrested for religious extremism. Let's hope they're good at stomping. - djdole, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Paranoia is lame. It's exactly what terrorists want to instill.
Besides EVERYONE knows that to produce the most damage and terror, you place your bombs in totally out of place boxes with question marks on them, and hang them from trees. - exili, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Um why are people afraid of female box?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yes it is. You dont live here. Its hillbilly city.
- bonoes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6We should email the cops there. Or someone in charge of that town. What a bunch of idiots.
- firemillen2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6no worries for the girls. Donkey Kong will break them out of prison.
- kenfagerdotcom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Just imagine if one of those boxes exploded! The poor bomb technician might have doubled his size from the Weapon of Mushroom Destruction!
- sailor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I ate a mushroom I found under one of those boxes...but I didn't power up, I just thought I was Luigi for a couple days...:p
- gsmithEIDW, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Well in Star Trek (Next Generation), they turned out to be "The Borg"... you never know!!
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