Super Mario Bros. Turn to a Life of Crime

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Halloween is usually a night for begging for candy from your neighbors or, for the older kids, getting drunk in a funny costume. Two robbers, however, decided to make this scary holiday a time for tainting the good names of two of our favorite video game heroes [via NYDailyNews]:

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According to the NY Daily News website, “Surveillance video shows two of the men — wearing colorful overalls and caps resembling  Mario and Luigi — wrestling the cabbie while a third man dressed in a tuxedo appears to act as a lookout.” Who is this strange tuxedo-wearing bad guy? We are sensing a Bowser extortion attempt at work here.