Excerpted from the Cookie Mountain Herald:

The celebratory parade was led by a man who only identified himself as Toad.  The diminutive leader could barely contain his excitement at the news.

“About frickin’ time.  That a-hole has been running around with impunity, kidnapping princesses left and right and nothing was ever done about it.”

“I couldn’t be more pleased that Mario and Luigi have given up plumbing and formed a civil police force.”

“You know, as long as they… like… don’t interfere with an individuals God-given right to ingest as many hallucinogenic mushrooms as I… errrr… he, rather a hypothetical citizen may deem necessary to, you know, make it through another day in this strange, strange land.”