{"id":21707,"date":"2016-07-16T11:49:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T15:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=21707"},"modified":"2020-10-19T05:08:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T09:08:40","slug":"pokemon-go-leaving-a-trail-of-bodies-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=21707","title":{"rendered":"Pokemon Go leaving a trail of bodies behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cPokemon GO.\u201d The game is so popular that people are literally dying to play it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/The-Stupid.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8832\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/The-Stupid-263x300.jpg?resize=263%2C300\" alt=\"The Stupid\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/The-Stupid.jpg?resize=263%2C300&amp;ssl=1 263w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/The-Stupid.jpg?resize=131%2C150&amp;ssl=1 131w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/The-Stupid.jpg?resize=400%2C454&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/The-Stupid.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019ve made a very wise decision. People are driving into trees and walking of cliffs playing this game. Here are some of the details from <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180309194344\/http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/2016\/07\/14\/death-by-pokemon-public-safety-fears-mount-as-pokemon-go-craze-continues.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>From driving accidents to distracted pedestrians and dangerous trespassing, the phenomenal success of Nintendo\u2019s \u201cPokemon GO\u201d game is fueling public safety fears. <\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201c<b>Death by Pokemon is coming,\u201d warns Gerry Beyer, Governor Preston E. Smith Regents Professor of Law at Texas Tech University School of Law. \u201cPokemon users will have all sorts of accidents as they use the program while walking, biking, driving, etc.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/shocked-face.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20636\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/shocked-face-300x225.png?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"shocked-face\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/shocked-face.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/shocked-face.png?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/2016\/jul\/13\/pokemon-go-encinitas-cliff-fall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Personally, I see this as a little self cleaning of the gene pool. The problem is, these morons might take someone who isn\u2019t 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170922104601\/http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/07\/15\/pokemon-go-player-finds-body-floating-in-new-hampshire-book.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nashua, New Hampshire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>A friend of the Angry Webmaster called as he was driving in the area and reported that \u201cEvery state cop in New Hampshire is down near Main Street.<\/p>\n<p>We took a walk down and that\u2019s 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox25boston.com\/news\/mans-body-found-floating-in-nashua-brook\/401096463\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">from Fox 25<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>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. <\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>The man&#8217;s body was removed from the water and sent for an autopsy.<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>&#8220;At this point it doesn&#8217;t look like anything suspicious,&#8221; Nashua Police Lt. Rob Giggi said.<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>The area is popular among Pokemon Go players, because there are several in-game hot spots in the area.<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201c<b>The person who found the victim today was playing this Pokemon game, which led him to kind of an obscure spot in downtown Nashua,\u201d Giggi said.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>At this point, the identity of the floater hasn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p>Pokemon GO. Evolution in action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/eye-roll.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18582\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/eye-roll-292x300.jpg?resize=292%2C300\" alt=\"eye roll\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/eye-roll.jpg?resize=292%2C300&amp;ssl=1 292w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/eye-roll.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you<\/p>\n<p><i><b>~The Angry Systems Administrator~<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>[yasr_visitor_votes size=&#8221;medium&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cPokemon GO.\u201d The game is so popular that people are literally dying to play it. <a href=\"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=21707\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,135,71,115,57,219],"tags":[4,222,38,15,34,57],"class_list":["post-21707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-just-desserts","category-news-of-the-day","category-stupidity-crime","category-technology","category-the-good-idea-fairy","tag-entertainment","tag-good-idea-fairy","tag-holocaust","tag-incompetence","tag-stupidity","tag-technology"],"views":866,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21859,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=21859","url_meta":{"origin":21707,"position":0},"title":"The Pokemon body count continues to increase","author":"Angry Webmaster","date":"July 27, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Good day all. 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