Mario Attack!?

Five teenager girls, ages 16 and 17, are facing possible criminal charges following an April's Fools prank that brought out the bomb squad in the small town of Ravenna, Ohio.

According to reports across the Internet, the girls made life-sized power-up boxes similar to those in the Nintendo Super Mario Brothers game. The cardboard boxes were covered in shiny, gold wrapping paper and had black question marks on the side.

Seventeen boxes were left hanging around the town of about 12,000 residents which lead authorities to call in the county's hazardous materials unit and the bomb squad.

So, wait, a town of 12,0000 people has a bomb squad?

The idea for the prank apparently came from Qwantz.com. The Web site owners say the purpose of the boxes is to "bring a smile to people's faces, to get them to connect with their neighbors, to bring color into an otherwise grey urban landscape."

I guess the police in Ravenna, Ohio didn't get much of a smile out of it. And I bet those girls didn't either, but is this really what our country has come to. Jailing teenage girls over a silly prank. My bet is the police chief just wanted to show off his fancy new bomb squad equipment.

A bomb squad being called out for a Mario box. Yeah, because I'm sure Ravenna, Ohio is high up on the al Quida target list.