I’m glad that the fear of terrorism did not cause the handing out of undue punishment this time around. I forgot to post about this before when I heard about the six Ohio teenage girls who were waiting to find out if charges would be pressed for leaving "suspicious" question mark boxes (yes, the same boxes found in the Super Mario Brothers video game series) around town. Bomb squads were called in all over Ravenna, OH, to investigate these golden boxes.
The girls found the plans for an art project to construct the boxes on the internet. Being gamers themselves, they thought it would be cool to make the boxes and leave them laying around town. They came forward after finding out about emergency response related to the boxes. The prosecutor has said that no charges will be pressed, because the girls had no priors and they are writing letters of apology to the agencies that responded to the calls that day.
I’m glad somewhere out there people still allow kids to be kids.
That’s actually a hilarious idea. If it had happened pre 9-11 it would have been a fantastic joke. Although it vaguely amuses me that someone would actually think a terrorist would put a giant ? on the side of a bomb to make sure everyone noticed it…
I weally wanted to see a picture of these things.. So I will share:
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=5004