As we reported previously: Five girls from Ravenna, Ohio placed 17 cardboard replications of the Super Mario power-up cubes throughout their town. The town has a population of approximately 12,000 people, some of which felt threatened by the power-up cubes and called in the bomb squad. Click here for the full article.


The prosecutor has decided not to press charges against the girls. “The girls were imitating an art project which they found on the Internet,” the prosecutor said. “None of the girls had any prior contacts with the police or juvenile court and are all good students.”


I think this is good news – their intent was not to scare anyone so they should not be punished. They sure did give Nintendo some free publicity though. Whether it was good or bad publicity is debatable.