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ITS A CARDBOARD BOX FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!!

next, a little girl is going to call the bomb squad because somebody gave her a "strange looking box with wrapping paper" at her birthday party.

Good job ohio, because of small stupid towns like that, I'm bumping you down to my 49th favorite state. Just be lucky you're not Idaho.]]>Apr 2nd 2006 5:26PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/Apr 2nd 2006 5:26PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/
Wow. I am stupified.]]>Apr 2nd 2006 5:26PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/Apr 2nd 2006 5:29PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/Apr 2nd 2006 5:35PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/
I live in a small town in Ohio of 1200 people. If this happened here and our "authorities" were this stupid I would slap them.]]>Apr 2nd 2006 5:37PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/
... along those lines, I work at a school. I made a Pong clock to hang on the wall, and it is absolutely wild that there's a huge amount of game-playing kids that have no idea what Pong is!]]>Apr 2nd 2006 5:42PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/Apr 2nd 2006 5:43PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/
Yeah..ok there.....yeah..]]>Apr 2nd 2006 5:44PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/Apr 2nd 2006 5:47PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/Apr 2nd 2006 5:52PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/Apr 2nd 2006 5:57PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/
This incident only adds to the notion that our country is scared shitless of everyone and anything, including ourselves. ]]>Apr 2nd 2006 6:08PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/
Jeez, seriously that was a throwaway comment and you go at him like that, you still wondering why you have 6(maybe 7 by now) minuses?]]>Apr 2nd 2006 6:09PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/Apr 2nd 2006 6:09PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/
If you're worried about unknown packages appearing in your town, then that makes your mailman a terrorist. I say we do this exact same stunt year after year until right-wing Americans learn to pull that stick out of their ass.

Joystiq, be sure to update us if anything happen's to these girls. Maybe Jack Thompson would like to say GTA made them do it.

~HotShotX]]>Apr 2nd 2006 6:10PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/
This is what we get from the mid-west.]]>Apr 2nd 2006 6:11PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/
I guess not... I would think anyone who was alive and not in a coma during the 80s would look at them and think "Oh! Mario!" Maybe the girls should have gone a step further and made the boxes play the Super Mario Brother's theme. Might have waken their memories up.]]>Apr 2nd 2006 6:12PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/
http://www.qwantz.com/posterchild/

This has been up for about a year, now. I meant to go out and do it, but never got around to it.]]>Apr 2nd 2006 6:13PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/]]>Apr 2nd 2006 6:14PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/
And left-wing Americans don't do stupid shit, right? Give me a fucking break...]]>Apr 2nd 2006 6:17PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.ci.ravenna.oh.us/

Here, let them idiots know how silly they truly are. I did.]]>Apr 2nd 2006 6:17PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/Apr 2nd 2006 6:21PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/Apr 2nd 2006 6:22PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/Apr 2nd 2006 6:23PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/
I should have called it a mid-sized village perhaps.

]]>Apr 2nd 2006 6:25PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/Apr 2nd 2006 6:31PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/Apr 2nd 2006 6:40PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/
Get over it.]]>Apr 2nd 2006 6:43PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/
To rocko - And I'm sure this would happen all over the U.S. - Wisconsin, New York, California. Just because it's in Ohio, don't stereotype the midwest as a bunch of conservative rednecks. This is more of a phenomenon with small towns than Ohio.
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If they press charges I could see this getting thrown out of court faster than you can say nintendo. They've done nothing wrong. What would they charge them with? Insighting Panic? They had no intention of doing so, and as long as they can prove that they're joke was perfectly harmless, which it was, they have nothing to worry about.

Meanwhile, the politicians and residents of Ravenna who flipped out, should be rounded up, and sterilized. America doesn't need them spreading they're stupidity around.]]>Apr 2nd 2006 7:13PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/
BUT, i'm starting to get a little pissed at all of you saying "oh, stupid small town rednecks" and "idiot small towns no one gives a shit about".

as a young child, i lived inb Kansas City, Missouri. when i was 5 years old, my dad went nuts and tried to kill my mother with a tirechecker in our basement. needless to say, after she got out of the hospital we moved. we moved to a town called Easton. IT was tiny. we lived there a couple months before moving to Rodeo, New Mexico. Rodeo is a tiny town near the border. by tiny i mean middle-of-the-desert-half-mile-long town.. it had a populationd of SEVENTY-TWO, including me and my mother (but it had a museum). about two and a half years later, we moved to a small town in Alabama (where i live now)that is way smaller than 12,000 people. far less than half that.

my point is, i've grown up in small towns. i'm also articulate and well-spoken. i don't think "it could happen here".

just because you've lived in the city your entire life, don't get sucked in by the the way little, backwoods areas are portrayed on TV. we're not inbred, we aren't missing any teeth other than those knocked out while doing something productive like splitting wood or bucking hay bails... and most of us could probably kick your pansy city-boy asses (not to say that there aren't tough people in the city, or that i don't still love the city).

PLEASE, just know what you're talking about before putting in your two cents. the problem spoken about in this article isn't a redneck thing or a small town thing.. it's a stupid people thing.]]>Apr 2nd 2006 7:31PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/
I mean, Jeez- how stupid can these people get for forgetting such simple facts?]]>Apr 2nd 2006 7:37PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/Apr 2nd 2006 7:40PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/Apr 2nd 2006 7:45PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/
All you need to be a "terrorist" in America:

1) A box or bag

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April Fools or not, this COULD have turned out to be a bad situation if it wasn't a bunch of girls pulling a prank. They left suspicious packages with question marks on them all over town and in front of important buildings. What if they really were bombs? How would the townspeople know if they haven't been exposed to Nintendo or Mario? Like the Ohio resident, Janice Cochran, implied... they should have thought about what they were doing.

Does this mean the girls should be brutally beaten to death or thrown in prison? Of course not, but they should be subject to some penalty, like community service to teach them a lesson. But I know there is the possibility of some old geezer who thinks our generation is just full of morons and "young punks" will try to be the parental figure and blow it out of proportion. I don't care if they were just cardboard boxes, they honestly scared those people.
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Were you a kid once????

Wow, this is stupid.

No, it's really stupid!

The girls should be given medals for causing this much of an uproar over such a silly and stupid thing. Seriously, the attention given to this is absurd.

The adults in that town really need to lighten up. This is why the rest of the world thinks that all americans are uber-paranoid morons.]]>Apr 2nd 2006 8:23PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/Apr 2nd 2006 8:25PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/
Also, this kind of thing has been happening in "big cities", college campuses, and airports all over America--and all it takes is a bag left unguarded or forgotten. I don't think the fault lies with the people in this small town--but in Americans all over the country.]]>Apr 2nd 2006 8:26PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/
For me, common sense would have clicked in.. "Oh, right... april 1st"]]>Apr 2nd 2006 8:28PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/Apr 2nd 2006 8:40PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/Apr 2nd 2006 8:50PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/
It will be interesting to see what Wacky Jacky Thompson has to say 'bout this.

"Super Mario made me do it"]]>Apr 2nd 2006 8:53PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/
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It COULD have been a bad situation if they were actual bombs, but every brown paper bag left anywhere COULD be a bomb. Hell, there could be a bomb in your refridgerator right now. People could get scared of anything, just because someone's irrational fears cause them to freak out about something that was clearly innocent doesn't mean those girls should face punishment. It's about criminal intent, not public idiocy.]]>Apr 2nd 2006 9:01PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/Apr 2nd 2006 9:24PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/Apr 2nd 2006 9:32PM