Super Mario Block Game And News Reports

[MagicMeeko]

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/14239923.htm

 

This and other URLs related to "Question Block Game" Has landed some teenagers in jail.

 

Im not saying that is Geocaching, but, it does have Muggles out looking for strange boxes, and calling the Police.

 

What do you think the impact of this is for our community?

[+The Leprechauns]

Look at the locations where the kids left the packages. Then look at the list of "Off Limits" areas in the Cache Listing Guidelines.

 

Makes you wonder why so many people gripe when they can't hide a cache next to a school, courthouse, etc.

[+Renegade Knight]

The packages were still harmless and where no harm is intended I do not at all agree with pressing charges. We have enough people making real bombs and creating hoaxes about bombs designed to cause disruption to worry about.

[+gof1]

Why would any one want to charge these children with any thing and what could they be charged with?

Maybe trespassing? It wasn't litter as the boxes are part of a game. No intent to cause harm or threat to any one. They are kids trying to have fun, not vandals or terorists.

[+hikergps]

Bomb squad getting called=officers on OT=someone is going to pay for it. Maybe they thought they were being set up by this guy!

[+Renegade Knight]

Bomb squad getting called=officers on OT=someone is going to pay for it. ...

 

That sums up what they will try to charge the people for. To get some payback for the money they spent. They tend to forget how things evolved.

 

First people went about their lives and did things like geocaching, and mario.

Then someone blew something up and others liking the disruption called in fake threats.

People continued to go about their lives but wanted some protection from the criminals.

Bomb squads were invented and went to work.

People continued to go about their lives only now every now and then the bomb squad responded to something that wasn't a bomb.

The bomb squads didn't like having to respond to 'nothing'.

People contineud to go about their lives.

People in charge of bomb squads were embarrassed about responding to nothing and started ranting about about wasted time, forgetting that they exised entirly because people want to go about their lives.

Now the people in charge rant and rave over the 'nothings' as well as the real deals and now the people who just wanted to go about their lives are getting caught up in as the bomb squad type leaders proscute all comers and not just the ones hell bent on harm.

Now the bomb squad leader types (since the advent of "Homeland Security" are causing disruptions and hopefully this will be squelched before they cause as much harm as the people they were formed to protect us (as we go about our lives and do things like geocaching and mario) against.

Edited April 3, 2006 by Renegade Knight

[+hikergps]

Bomb squad getting called=officers on OT=someone is going to pay for it. ...

 

That sums up what they will try to charge the people for. To get some payback for the money they spent. They tend to forget how things evolved.

 

First people went about their lives and did things like geocaching, and mario.

Then someone blew something up and others liking the disruption called in fake threats.

People continued to go about their lives but wanted some protection from the criminals.

Bomb squads were invented and went to work.

People continued to go about their lives only now every now and then the bomb squad responded to something that wasn't a bomb.

The bomb squads didn't like having to respond to 'nothing'.

People contineud to go about their lives.

People in charge of bomb squads were embarrassed about responding to nothing and started ranting about about wasted time, forgetting that they exised entirly because people want to go about their lives.

Now the people in charge rant and rave over the 'nothings' as well as the real deals and now the people who just wanted to go about their lives are getting caught up in as the bomb squad type leaders proscute all comers and not just the ones hell bent on harm.

Now the bomb squad leader types (since the advent of "Homeland Security" are causing disruptions and hopefully this will be squelched before they cause as much harm as the people they were formed to protect us (as we go about our lives and do things like geocaching and mario) against.

 

What he said!

[+Airmapper]

Strange boxes in public places = Bored kids = Annoyed adults.

 

The solution?

 

Take them Geocaching!

[+gof1]

And well said it was.

I get it, it just ain't right.

I once had a cop try to arrest me for smiling.

[Jeremy]

I found the link. In context it is pretty cool. Out of context I can understand the concern.

[+Team Oodi]

Really makes me wonder of where this suspicious package thing is headed. Here is a quote from a Globe and Mail article regarding an explosion and initially suspected bombing of a Tim Hortons in Toronto.

 

Two hours later, a Tim Hortons store several blocks north at Yonge Street and Lawrence Avenue was evacuated and locked down after panicky employees spotted a stray plastic bag and called police.

 

The suspicious package turned out to be a clock in a shopping bag, Staff Sgt. Cole said.

 

There is no mentioning of any charges against the owner of the stray plastic bag. However, it does make me wonder how far 'we' (as in society) can actually go to make individuals liable for harmless mistakes or actions with no harm intended or done. Any bag or parcel left at a high traffic area, a train station, airport, shopping center, you name it, qualifies as a suspicious package. Does that make anyone that looses or forgets a bag criminally liable or at minimum liable for the cost rolling out the bomb squad...??? Sad...