When 5 teenagers left dozens of cardboard Mario question mark blocks around their town, they didn't expect police to treat their prank as a danger to the public! This simple Super Mario Brosinspired prank quickly ballooned out of control, ending with all five teenagers being referred to PROSECUTORS. Let's find out about the Mario prank which went too far!

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SOURCES
https://www.eurogamer.net/news030406m...
https://web.archive.org/web/200806210...
https://web.archive.org/web/200602022...
https://web.archive.org/web/200802250...
http://hoaxes.org/af_database/permali...
https://gamepolitics.livejournal.com/...
https://www.theguardian.com/technolog...
https://web.archive.org/web/200804241... Posterchild interview
https://web.archive.org/web/200604050... Ravenna news article

CREDITS
https://www.deviantart.com/nicholasbl... Mario thumbnail render by Nicholasblasi
   • Ravenna   OH   Ravenna aerial footage by Hank Studios
   • A Stroll Up & Down Main Street Ravenn...   Ravenna main street footage by Ruggidro's Review

MUSIC USED
Demise from Virtue's Last Reward
Logic and Trick from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Transient Tranquillity from Zero Time Dilemma
Separation of Lovers from Tomodachi Collection
Other music from Epidemic Sound