Children Continue to Pretend Game Boys Are Bombs

[Tom Goldman]

Children Continue to Pretend Game Boys Are Bombs

Yet another child has stirred up a bomb scare with his old school Nintendo Game Boy.

What is it about the original Game Boy that makes kids want to turn it into a bomb? Last year, an 18-year old tried to boost his popularity [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/100461-High-School-Student-Uses-GameBoy-to-Create-Fake-Bomb] by pretending one was an explosive device, and just recently another even younger child has done the same thing.

NBC reports that an 11-year-old student of the Northside Intermediate School in Milton, Wisconsin was on a school bus and threatened to blow it up with a bomb. The student was holding a device with batteries and wires on it. Police were notified and other students were evacuated off the bus.

A SWAT team and bomb squad showed up to negotiate with the child, who was convinced to exit the bus and leave the device behind. The bomb squad destroyed the device, though it didn't contain any actual explosives. It was simply an original Game Boy with a bunch of wiring and other materials attached, the Milton Police Department confirmed to Kotaku. School was cancelled for the day, and the 11-year-old was taken into custody.

To all the kids out there, let's get one thing straight. Your Game Boy is not a bomb. It's a fun handheld from the 1990s that brought joy to millions of people across the world. Attaching N-Gage [http://www.amazon.com/HandyPak-trade-Color-Game-Boy/dp/B00000K4DK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1300386634&sr=1-1] is for.

Source: Kotaku [http://www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/Bomb_Scare_On_Board_School_Bus_Student_In_Custody_118101134.html]

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[Reed Spacer]

He should have used a Game Gear.

I mean the system was a bomb, so...

 

[Quiet Stranger]

You never heard about stuff like this when I was growing up.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Use a Game Boy Advance, at least. GET WITH THE TIMES!

 

[Bags159]

But Game Boy is da bomb. Kids these days. Back in my day we used hand-helds to play games, not to create bomb scares.

 

[DTWolfwood]

Kids these days! no respect for antiquities! XD

nice zinger at the end too. gave me a good chuckle.

 

[Liam Bilton]

Waste of a perfectly good gameboy

 

[bomblord]

I wonder what the kid thought when the swat team showed up

 

[TilMorrow]

Hey there aren't many of those left, stop destroying them! *sniff My dad sold his old one at a Car Boot sale not long ago. Idjit.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

Man, I should have thought of this when I was a kid. That's a day out of school right there.
I mean you don't get to do anything fun because you are stuck on a bus and everyone thinks you have explosives but it's the principle of the thing that counts.

 

[BX3]

LOL, generation gap.
Heh, by today's standards, the old Gameboy does look kinda like a bomb.

 

[gigastar]

And heres me thinking all the original Gameboys were locked away in some collectors drawer.

Or in a landfill.

Oh well, one less GB means the price of the others goes up by another $50USD.

 

[(whitty name here)]

My I direct you to this? [http://encyclopediadramatica.com/ATHF_Terrorist_Attack]

Batteries and wires are grounds for bombs now...sigh.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

What? Well that's a first for me. I would never of thought that someone would try to make a fake bomb out of a Game Boy.
What a waste too. Those things were the pinnacle of portable video gaming. Sure it's a big bulky brick, but before them, there WAS NO portable video gaming.
No respect I tell ya.

 

[frago roc]

Stupid kid will require therapy for the rest of his life. Some parents shouldn't be allowed to have kids.

 

[ZombieGenesis]

I don't get why he'd even take it that far ... if you're pulling a prank and the SWAT team gets involved, thats about the time you fess up.

 

[unacomn]

Thank ye elder gods he didn't use a Virtual Boy. They would have shot him. That thing is dangerous.

 

[ShadowKirby]

I'm surprised the bomb squad was able to destroy it. Those things were solid.

 

[emeraldrafael]

You never heard about stuff like this when I was growing up.

Basically this.

I mean, what is with kids these days? You never really heard about school shootings and bombings in the 1990s with Saxophoning Bill in the office. Well... not until the end at least. Besides, I didnt even know people used to do this period. I could see maybe with an N-Gage, but what kinda heartless bastard are you to do that with a GB?