Police
in Milford, Michigan were hunting for a man. The man in question was
hunting for Pokémon. The two missions brought them together because the
local police station was a Pokémon GO gym. The
Detroit Free Press reports:
“A
couple of our officers looked out the window and saw him standing out
by the flagpole,” said Police Chief Tom Lindberg, noting after numerous
run-ins, police recognized the individual immediately and went out to
greet – and arrest – the man.
Lindberg said he wasn’t sure the man
even realized where he was headed; the location-based mobile game uses
GPS to guide users as they explore real life surroundings in search of
virtual images, requiring users to look at their phone while not paying
attention to surroundings.
“When I first learned about this game, I
was very concerned it was taking young adults into places they
shouldn’t necessarily be – and could get hurt, if they’re not paying
attention to what’s going on around them,” Lindberg said. “But I never
thought someone with a warrant would be so driven by the game that
they’d walk right up to the police station.”
No comments:
Post a Comment