Children Continue to Pretend Game Boys Are Bombs

[TheRocketeer]

What is it about the original Game Boy that makes kids want to turn it into a bomb?

To be fair, 'Pong: The Next Level' really failed to meet expectations.

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...

You have to get street cred from somewhere after you blow your iPad budget on a Game Boy.

...and just recently another even younger child has done the same thing.

In all fairness, anyone barely older than ten that sees a gray brick with a monochrome screen start pumping out 8-bit beeps and blips probably thinks it is a bomb.

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.

Milton, WI's greatest emergency since those nasty Janesville students painted an indecent picture on the grain elevator.

The student was holding a device with batteries and wires on it.

I heard he had 4 ounces of shampoo, too. The kid was practically Chemical Ali.

Police were notified and other students were evacuated off the bus.

The responding officer was relieved to have, quote, "...[N]ipped it in the bud. Nip it! Nip it! Nip it!"

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.

Goodness, what were his demands? A nuclear WonderSwan?

The bomb squad destroyed the device, though it didn't contain any actual explosives.

Presumably, they were pissed off you can't actually catch Yoshi in Pokemon Blue Version.

It was simply an original Game Boy with a bunch of wiring and other materials attached, the Milton Police Department confirmed to Kotaku.

I did the same thing to my Game Boy back in the day, seeing if I could force it to play Chrono Trigger.

School was cancelled for the day, and the 11-year-old was taken into custody.

He got off light. I spent the week in a burn ward.

To all the kids out there, let's get one thing straight. Your Game Boy is not a bomb.

Interpol is still trying to suppress the Game Gear-based unrest in the Ivory Coast, however.

It's a fun handheld from the 1990s that brought joy to millions of people across the world.

And literally dozens of jaded grognards on the Internet.

Attaching excessive accessories [http://www.amazon.com/HandyPak-trade-Color-Game-Boy/dp/B00000K4DK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1300386634&sr=1-1] to it is one thing, but please stop trying to deface its good name by attaching bomb-like materials.

If you want to see flames, just go online and say you preferred the Atari Lynx.

That's what the N-Gage [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Gage] is for.

Aaaaaand a joke about the Nokia N-Gage has given the article its first and only real bomb. Way to go out with a bang, Mr. Goldman.

(As always, all in good fun.)

 

[x434343]

So because it's a gameboy it can't be a bomb.

Remember, suitcase bombs look like suitcases but hide a darker purpose. Doubly so for car bombs and bomb vests. They're designed to look innocent.

That being said, the Bomb Squad did their job, Escapist news dingbats. They responded to an explosive threat perfectly. About 6 years ago, at my high school, there was a bomb threat. Somebody broguht fake grenades on campus and left notes saying "School blows up, lol". The bomb squad responded by destroying the fake grenades.

tl;dr, the Bomb Squad responds to bomb threats with controlled detonations. So stop acting like the police did something wrong and stop, for the love of god, stop attaching opinionated closing statements to your news stories. You do it all the time, and quite frankly, it makes you look like an ass.

 

[Rayne870]

They aren't much good for anything else these days. Usually I would ask where the hell would an 11 year old get a bomb, but there was none. So where the hell did an 11 year old get a gameboy? those things should be pretty rare now.

 

[Watchmacallit]

Kids are honestly losing intelligence as the years going on. Here I thought we were getting smarter.

 

[Electrogecko]

LMFAO I can't stop replaying this scene in my head and every time it's hilarious.

 

[standokan]

Those things are antique by now, IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!

 

[godfist88]

god kids are stupid these days. i mean what is this kids problem, he wants to be popular by making people think he's a terrorist?

 

[Drazeric]

well looks like im not going to be able to bring a portable with me on planes any more....and i bet their lying. One of the bomb squad just looked at it,took it home and is now rocking out the original pokemon

 

[beniki]

Who the hell believes an 11-year old when he says he has a bomb?

 

[BlackMageBob]

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

"SWEET! Five-Stars!"

 

[Sennz0r]

Look on the bright side: As soon as this kid gets out of whatever punishment is laid upon him, no one at that school will mess with him ever again.

That and he's probably never allowed to ride the bus again.

 

[PunkRex]

Hes going to be kicking himself in 20 years and he realises he could have sold it to some rich, 50 year old game freak for like $5000.

 

[ShadowsofHope]

..I'd say something about the kid being an idiot in this case, but..

OMG HOW COULD YOU DESTROY A CLASSIC GAMEBOY!? THOSE THINGS ARE A DAMNED ENDANGERED SPECIES, BY NOW! I MEAN, ARREST THE KID, BUT.. FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD, DON'T DESTROY SUCH AN ANTIQUE!!

*Ahem*

..I'm done now.

 

[Lillowh]

OMG I had totally forgotten about the HandyPak I had for my Gameboy color when I was a kid. Thank you for reminding me. I love nostalgic moments.
OT: Wow, you'd think the kid would drop the act when the police were called. What a psycho.

 

[KingdomheartsFan2131]

poor GB never had the chance......

 

[relic626]

awwww... i must say seeing this device brought back alot of memories.. if it wasn't for nintendo game boy i wouldn't be playing games

 

[Gilhelmi]

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?

Seemed to go downhill about the time they outlawed beatings and abolished hangin's.

JUST SAYAJIN.

Sadly, you are correct.

A good beating is what some of these crazy kids need these days.

I am joking (partly). Parents could just do their jobs and not try to be friends with their children. When a child starts a bomb scare, I am willing to wager that he acted up (in other ways) at home and the parents did nothing. There is no discipline in the majority of children today (excluding home schooled kids, they are responsible young adults. And occasionally a child whose parents still punished them for doing wrong).

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

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

Encyclopedia Dramatica? I'm not clicking that or anything close to it. I bet even the quote button is infected now... glurk...

That quote is accurate, sadly. Back in 07' a "underground advertising firm" (or as I call them a waste of money) put up signs on random spots in Boston, some locations would have been good for placing bombs like bridges. People who did not know what the character was thought that it was a bomb because "No one in there right minds would put that there unless it was a statement". Which was true but a statement meant to say you should watch a TV show.

In the end, it was a bad publicity stunt that got attention that was not intended. Moral is people will overreact to anything with batteries and wires.

 

[GamingAwesome1]

*hugs original Game Boy*

Don't worry..you'll never become a bomb...they'll go nowhere near my precious.

 

[dracoslayer16]

"The bomb squad destroyed the device"

WHAT?! They destroyed a perfectly good old fashioned gameboy?? Those things are becoming rare and they just broke one on purpose. Mine barely works now and the screen is slightly crooked.

 

[Trogdor1138]

... WHY?

What possible advantage could the kid get out of this? This makes no fucking sense to me, can somebody explain it to me?

I feel far more sorry for the Gameboy than the kid. Can he be used to play Tetris and Pokemon? No, so clearly the boy should've had the worser punishment, society sickens me thesedays...