Girl Chasing Bowser Gets Stuck in Pipe

[GameKinG]

A Hong Kong 10 year-old became stuck in a one foot wide pipe Monday morning. The girl had crawled in there, believing she would be transported to another world. Her mother heard her calls for help, and shortly thereafter called authorities. Firefighters were quickly consfused as to how to free the girl. If they had cut the pipe, they would have cut her too. If they blowtorched the pipe, she would have turned into a steel-wrapped egg roll. Fortunately, authorities came up with a decent plan. First, they cut the pipe away so that they could move the girl. Next, the pipe was lubricated with sesame oil. Rescuers then pumped the pipe full of air and, inevitably, the girl popped out a bit sore, but otherwise unharmed.

Why did this happen? According to her mother, "Kim Chi" (we will call her Kim Chi to protect her identity) was playing Super Mario Bros. on NES. "She had been playing the game all day since last week, thats all she did!" In the game, there are Super Mario green pipes that the hero, Mario, travels through to get to new levels and secret tunnels. Kim Chi apparently wanted to use the large, coincidentially green pipe that happened to be sitting outside to transport herself to a new level.

Child psychologist James Peterson has seen cases like this many times before. "The influence of games on children can do horrible things. Television is no better." James went on for quite a while, much too much to write, identifying rock music, rap, and radio as other likely causes.

Just watch some mothers get angry at mario and call it a bad influence. Kids these days, always getting stuck in pipes...St least she didnt play GTA:VC.