Man holds woman hostage for 10 hours... with a Sega light gun

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget....ightphaser.jpg

We always thought the Sega Master System's stealth-black Light Phaser was cooler than our blaze orange NES Zapper, but we never thought it could actually mistaken for a real weapon -- it's pretty obviously plastic, after all. Yeah, we were wrong: a Brazilian man apparently held a 60-year old woman hostage at, uh, phaserpoint for 10 hours until surrendering to police. Next time? He's taking down a bank with a Super Scope.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/m...ega-light-gun/

It's not that they thought it was a gun - the threat was in making people play those crappy games that used the lightgun. :D