Good day all, this is the Angry Systems Administrator. Recently a new craze has swept the world. It is a game played on smartphones called “Pokemon GO.” The game is so popular that people are literally dying to play it.
Now for the due diligence. I have not played this game and I do not intend to. I also managed to avoid the Angry Birds craze of a few years ago as well. Considering the rising body count, I think I’ve made a very wise decision. People are driving into trees and walking of cliffs playing this game. Here are some of the details from Fox News:
From driving accidents to distracted pedestrians and dangerous trespassing, the phenomenal success of Nintendo’s “Pokemon GO” game is fueling public safety fears.
“Death by Pokemon is coming,” warns Gerry Beyer, Governor Preston E. Smith Regents Professor of Law at Texas Tech University School of Law. “Pokemon users will have all sorts of accidents as they use the program while walking, biking, driving, etc.”
Two men apparently playing the game had to be rescued after falling off a 90-foot ocean bluff in California Wednesday, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports.
Personally, I see this as a little self cleaning of the gene pool. The problem is, these morons might take someone who isn’t interested in the game, (Such as myself), with them. Then there is another problem. Now Pokemon GO players are starting to find dead bodies. To date, the remains of two people have been located by Pokemon GO players, one in Riverton Wyoming and another in Nashua, New Hampshire.
The second one hits very close to home for Anger Central. When I say close to home, I mean within a 5 minute walk from the Anger Central offices. The staff was having a meeting when we heard a helicopter flying around outside. At first, the Angry Administrative Assistant, who went out to look, thought it was a police helicopter. I took a look and saw that it was a news copter out of Boston.
A friend of the Angry Webmaster called as he was driving in the area and reported that “Every state cop in New Hampshire is down near Main Street.
We took a walk down and that’s when we saw all the news crews and the police in rescue gear. A Pokemon GO player, chasing something down near the Holocaust Memorial found a body floating in the pond nearby. Since this hold more interest to us than Wyoming, here are some of the details from Fox 25:
Police in Nashua are investigating a body that was found in floating in the water. Police tell FOX25 the body was found by someone playing Pokemon Go. According to a release from the Nashua Fire Department, the body was found in Salmon Brook around 2 p.m. on Thursday behind the Holocaust Memorial.
The man’s body was removed from the water and sent for an autopsy.
“At this point it doesn’t look like anything suspicious,” Nashua Police Lt. Rob Giggi said.
The area is popular among Pokemon Go players, because there are several in-game hot spots in the area.
“The person who found the victim today was playing this Pokemon game, which led him to kind of an obscure spot in downtown Nashua,” Giggi said.
At this point, the identity of the floater hasn’t been released, nor has the cause of death. I know that area and honestly, the only way you can end up there and not get out is if you are stoned out of your mind. That, or someone else was playing Pokemon GO and decided to dive in to capture some creature or other.
Pokemon GO. Evolution in action.
Thank you
~The Angry Systems Administrator~
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