No, not the TV show.
Pokemon Go players.
Apparently, when people play this game on their phones or
tablets, common sense goes out the window...and its not only teenagers playing,
either.
Early Monday morning two Sherman, Texas men were arrested
for fighting in the street over Pokemon Go; it seems one wasn't happy with the
other's choice of teams.
In Ashland, Ohio, players are often found in the city's main
cemetery after midnight, trying to catch one of the game's characters. The
cemetery closes at dusk. And in Florida, two PG players wandered into the yard of a private residence late at night. Thinking they were burglars, the homeowner shot at them; luckily, neither player suffered wounds, aside from their pride. I'd imagine they went straight home for a change of underwear.
The game's not just a novelty in the United States; in Bosnia, the government issued a warning to players to keep out of areas that have yet to be cleared of land mines, left over from that country's civil war a couple of decades ago. And in Indonesia, police have been ordered not to play
Pokemon Go while on duty, and military personnel will soon be banned from the
game as well, officials said this past Wednesday. My oldest stepson Cory, just home from Tinker Air Force base in Oklahoma, informed me that there had been 'updates' posted around the base as to where certain hot spots were located, inhabited by these virtual targets for capture.
Seriously??!!
Kids and teenagers I can understand; military personnel and police officers? This has to be some kind of joke.
We've got a billionaire huckster who can't stay away from social media and a proven pathological liar as our two choices for the Office of the Presidency. Men who want to be women being permitted to use the ladies room in public venues. Illegal aliens collecting Social Security and government assistance who haven't paid one cent into those programs through tax dollars, never mind the fact they broke the law when they entered our country in the first place. Cops being ambushed. Large sections of a couple of major cities, predominantly inhabited by Muslims, that want to be governed by Islamic Sharia law which flies directly in the face of the United States Constitution. Streets flooded with illegal narcotics causing crime and overdose deaths to skyrocket. School kids being punished for biting into a Pop Tart in such a way that makes it resemble a handgun. Texting drivers causing accidents at such a rate that OUR insurance premiums are being raised even though we have no violations or accidents of our own. Teachers having affairs with students.
This list could be endless, like the political ads we're inundated with daily.
And now comes a phone app that turns otherwise sensible human beings into walking zombies, oblivious to everything except that character they MUST capture in the virtual/real world.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to recognize our United States of America.
And I am sick of it.
The man in the background, playing Pokemon Go near a mine field
in eastern Europe.
