Mario Question Box Girls Will Not be Prosecuted

Earlier this week, GamePolitics reported on a bizarre case in which six teenage girls were questioned by police after leaving gold-wrapped boxes with question marks painted on the sides outside various public buildings in Ravenna, Ohio. The boxes mimicked those found in the old Super Mario Bros. game for the NES.

As reported by the Akron Beacon-Journal, Portage County Prosecutor Victor V. Vigluicci said the girls "The girls were imitating an art project they found on the Internet. None of the girls had any prior contacts with the police or juvenile court and are all good students. I do not believe that they had any bad or malicious intentions, (but) were not thinking about the consequences of their actions in this day and age."

The girls will write letter of apology to each of the public safety agencies which responded (but not, apparently, to Mario, Luigi or Princess Peach).