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Famicom Vandals Hit Scottish Church
Thanks to the Gaming Age messageboard for pointing to a local Scottish news story describing a church in Aberdeen bizarrely daubed with a Nintendo-related slogan. According to the story, "Paint was splashed all over the church's front door and the phrase 'The Famicom' was scrawled in foot-high writing on the wall." Although the story says that "Police have confirmed they are searching for the culprits - but are unable to shed any light on the meaning of 'The Famicom'", readers may have some idea of the word's origin, although perhaps not the motive for the attack.
I would tag "The G5 Chick."
I think this is awful ! :)
That kind of people should be put naked on he streets, and fucked to death
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Surely they can manage to type something into a search engine?
This Google search pulls up over 200,000 results!
"Proudly Posting Without Reading The Article"
if they can't lift any good fingerprints from the crime scene, they should be on the lookout for a guy sporting a powerglove. it's so bad.
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Goo goo g'joob.
Quotes of particular note:
"Mr Gvodinsky said: "I am disgusted, disgraced, ashamed, immensely angry, lost and helpless. "
Um, get a grip?
"And what is this 'Famicom'?""
I just inivisage a Dr Evil scene with the whole inverted commas sign going on here. It's hilarious that they're all left wondering what the meaning of this myterious word "Famicom" could be.
Looks can be deceiving. Or CAN they?
I dont think the early Nintendo consoles were ever sold in the UK under the "Famicom" brand. As I remember the 8 bit Famicom was sold as the "Nintendo control deck" and the Super Famicom was just sold as the "Super Nintendo Entertainment System", or SNES. So it seems our Scottish vandals are collectors of exotic retro imports.
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Slashdot the new Crimestoppers ?
...I'd pay a visit to Acclaim Headquarters as soon as possible. Vandalism would be the logical next step in their marketing strategy.
Hank! White!
If only the police had access to some kind of engine designed for searching. A sort of searching engine, if you will. Then they could type this mysterious word "famicon" in the searching engine and find what the word meant...
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You people keep talking about how they could just enter this information into a search engine (as if something that convenient really exists), do you not realize that this will be one more thing to say is evil about those things that the famicom is used for that I shall not mention.
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creepy tastes dude
there is always the chance that this isn't by Nintendoites, that Famicom is...I dunno, something about Famiy planning or something weird like that
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They were probably upset that, indeed, sorry Mario, the savior was in another castle.
NO CARRIER
Now that they've achieved Slashdot article status, unless they're caught, they'll probably move on to vandalize something else knowing they've got a built in audience of curiosity seekers and free press.
For certain types of crimes, a sentence or two at the bottom of the police blotter on page 26 of the Small Town Daily News and Tribune is all the public notice that's warranted. Anything else adds fuel to the fire.
And of course, the more Slashdot spreads news of their deeds, the more likely more mainstream press will pick it up and label it "geek vandalism" or label it as some sign of strange, nerdy counterculture rebellion. Even if these aren't geeks and has nothing to do with gaming culture, it's still going to happen.
While I don't necessarily advocate censorship, Slashdot should exercise a little editorial forethought before glorifying vandals.
Perhaps they were stopped from playing games when they were kids by people who'd listened to the "Video games are tools of Satan!"-style propaganda that was put about by some organisations back in the early '90's...?
Hey, stranger things have happened.
It's a tabloid rag. Every day it has some old lady being mugged or kid getting run over as the front page news. The P&J is a lot better.
I live on the other side of the river from Woodside (the posh name for Tillydrone). It's a fucking dump and I only ever go through it to get to the city as quickly as possible. It's interesting how I heard of this on Slashdot first.
Does my bum look big in this?
"Nintendo encourages vandalism!"
It's the Xtian fundies trying to provide undeniable proof that video games make children into monsters; they broke into their own church and want to use it as a reason to push for anti-video game legislation.
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