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[hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"] [h3]Bomb squad called out to "defuse" life-size Super Mario power-ups [/h3] Five girls decorated their Ohio hometown with life-size Super Mario Brothers power-up bricks. The Man responded with full-on terrornoia, dispatching video-game illiterate bomb-squads to "defuse" the bricks, and now the girls face "potential criminal charges." [blockquote]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. [/p]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. [/p][/blockquote] [a href="vny!://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/14239923.htm"]Link[/a]
