It takes a real Super Mario - or a bomb squad

tungsten on 4/4/2006 at 08:50

(http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/02/tiny-ohio-town-freaked-out-by-mario-prank/)

Quote:

The residents of a tiny Ohio town called the bomb squad when they started discovering "suspicious packages" littered throughout the town on April 1st.

And here's the picture:

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http://static.flickr.com/40/123109291_b5f821bff0_o.gif

I wonder if they found any mushrooms.

Scots Taffer on 4/4/2006 at 09:18

I'd like to tie in the growing effect of mushrooms with (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrophilia) a new internet fetish I heard about today.

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http://www.pippoburro.com/mailart/images/gallery/sent/jace/postcard/mario_mushroom.jpg

HAWT

fuzzybo on 4/4/2006 at 12:00

so who put them up i wonder?

Myoldnamebroke on 4/4/2006 at 12:27

That picture isn't of the ones they actually put up. People have been doing it for a while - I saw (http://www.qwantz.com/posterchild/) this linked from the awesome dinosaur comics ages ago.

NeoPendragon on 4/4/2006 at 19:55

This just in: Hillbillys are paranoid. News at eleven.

adamg32 on 5/4/2006 at 00:32

Why not just grow your own 1up mushrooms, instead of making them?
(http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/1upmushroom.shtml)
Tempted to get one, but not sure if it's worth the attention. :p

tungsten on 5/4/2006 at 01:58

Can you eat them?
You know that "magic" mushrooms are legal in Japan. So maybe...

BlackCapedManX on 7/4/2006 at 01:41

I read about some guy who goes around to major cities and made stencils of the space invaders, as a way of showing how games are becoming part of our culture or something like that, but I think those have been less, obtrusive, and not as frightening.