Police responding to a bomb scare this morning on a school bus outside of the Northside Intermediate school in Milton, Wisconsin, discovered an 11-year-old boy in possession of a video game system dressed up with wires and batteries to look like an explosive device.
Milton Police Department Lieutenant John Conger confirmed with Kotaku that the system in question was an “old school” Game Boy, and agreed that that was no way to treat a vintage game system.
Cameron Wynn
Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 9:41 AMO_o
Why? Now it’ll start up the “gamers are sociopaths” arguments again.
v4next
Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 11:53 AMYeah, I can just see the rumours – “boy makes bomb out of gameboy.”
Powalen
Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 11:36 AMMy original Gameboy was da bomb, too.
706
Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 11:53 AM“and agreed that that was no way to treat a vintage game system.”
Because of the bomb scare it caused or because he respects the system too much to do that to one? The first makes more sense, but I feel like that sentence implies the second.
MrTaco
Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 2:14 PMI once built a Rickroll-in-a-box that had a pair of speakers, a walkman, a battery pack and wires all over the place, and packed it in my check-in luggage to take with me to Melbourne for a friend’s birthday. Airport security seemed to be smart enough to not think it was a bomb :P
none
Friday, March 18, 2011 at 11:17 PM“The Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office Bomb Squad safely removed and destroyed the device.”
WHY!?