The historic English city of Cambridge is famous for many things - the beautiful architecture and majestic college buildings, punting down the river Cam and world famous theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. This sterling reputation as a tourist hotspot for visitors to the UK was tarnished recently when rogue Mario and Luigi impersonators unleashed mayhem on the typically genteel academic city.
Having stolen Mario and Luigi costumes from a fancy dress shop in the city, they proceeded to get drunk and run amok. The not-so-super Mario Bros. found themselves in a spot of bother when they entered a Cambridge music shop and started messing around with the musical instruments on display – trying to play the Super Mario World opening theme tune, we suspect.
The police were promptly called to the scene – a conflict with staff had arisen as Luigi tried to make off with a guitar and keyboard from the shop.
When the case was taken to court the rapscallion dressed as Mario was ordered to pay £25.99 compensation for the stolen costume and given a suspended sentence for the incident. Let's hope this is the end of such drunken Super Mario hijinks in Cambridge, the local residents already have enough to contend with due to an aggressive swan called Mr Asbo.
[source cambridge-news.co.uk]
Comments 9
Well THERE'S an idea for the next Mario game.
@BLPs Far from it. The story checks out. I'm from the Cambridge area. The fancy dress store is right opposite the music shop.
After the Princess turned out to be in another castle, Mario and Luigi turned to alcoholism.
sounds more Wario
@BLPs Who says the hallway isn't for sale?
@BLPs I was being sarcastic.
On an unrelated note, why can't people have dressed up as Wario or something and done this? That would have made more sense. Those silly intoxicated vandals!
25.99 pounds for the costume? Geeze, man, they let people off easy in the UK. No wonder we have rougue Mario Brothers running a muck.
@chiptoon they should have dressed as wario and waluigi!
I work at the music store, and the story gets even better.
We have a basement we use to store guitar cases and boxes, and Mario (not luigi), after attempting to steal a keyboard, climbed down the ladder into our basement.
So we shut the door.
The police advised us to leave him down there until they arrived, so we did. Maybe 20 minutes? Luckily, no fire flower or star!
@Croftyttl That's hilarious Did they actually seem dangerous or were they just really loopy?
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