Posted on 07/17/2016 4:54:52 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Authorities say a Florida man fired shots at two late-night “Pokémon Gō” players in a car outside his house but no one was injured.
Flagler County Sheriff’s Office spokesman James Troiano says in a news release that the homeowner awoke to a noise outside about 1:30 a.m. Saturday and saw a car sitting in the road in front of his house. He told authorities he got a handgun and approached the vehicle. …
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File under “That was inevitable”.
Investigation is ongoing? Is there a castle law in Florida that extends to cars driving away down the street?
I joke about it, but I don’t want to see anyone get hurt doing this, especially a kid.
I can visualize some ways it could go bad (like this incident) and if there is one thing I have learned in my life, it is that if you can imagine it, it is inevitable that someone, somewhere, is going to do it.
“Investigation is ongoing? Is there a castle law in Florida that extends to cars driving away down the street?”
Nope. Or else anyone walking their dog late night is now open to be shot at by some paranoid idiot.
Yep. Investigation ongoing to determine what laws were broken. I suspect charges will be filed against this man for firing at a car on a public road.
Charges should be filed against him. There’s a moron who shouldn’t have a gun.
Maybe the investigation will show that the teens stole pokemons from the man's yard and the man used deadly force in an attempt to prevent the thefts and to retrieve his lawfully owned pokemons (or is is pokemen?).
Pokemon Free Zone
...and post a video of it on the internet.
Exactly. This is a situation that he created. If he saw something suspicious, he should’ve called the cops and gotten the LP number.
I have hundreds of Pokemon zombies shambling around under my balcony. I live in a quiet little enclave and there’s a traffic jam now at midnight, kids racing their engines, vandalism. Be glad when this is over with.
Sounds like the Pokeman shot back this time. Never know with those guys, they can be unpredictable.
Pokepersyn.
Florida man strikes again!
That’s the wrong way to make a Pokemon Go.
Recently, three teenagers pursued one of the strange looking cartoon creatures into the employee parking lot of the Perry plant, at 3 in the morning! Instead of catching the Pokémon, they were caught by security officers and escorted off the property.
But it could have ended very differently – and much more seriously - for these Pokémon pursuers.
Commercial nuclear plants are among the best-protected facilities in the country. Their security officers are highly trained professionals who carry guns and are authorized to use them in protecting the plant. Though you might not always see the protective measures and many details are not publically available, security is in place.
https://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2016/07/19/pokemon-go-not-a-go-at-nuclear-plants/
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