Posted on 07/20/2016 8:04:16 AM PDT by Wolfie
When will it end? Video catches Pokemon Go player driving his SUV into a parked police car
In a few years, or even in a few months, we’ll probably see Psychologists examine and study the unprecedented level of gaming addiction we’ve seen from Pokemon Go players over the past few weeks. If you thought Candy Crush was bad, well, Pokemon Go takes things to an entirely new level.
In recent weeks, we’ve seen stories of Pokemon Go players crashing cars, getting shot at, falling off cliffs, aimlessly wandering into traffic and even creating Walking Dead-style stampedes in cities across the globe. Apparently the search for virtual monsters is so strong that players can’t help but throw all of their common sense out the window once they fire up the game.
In the most recent instance of a Pokemon Go addiction gone too far, a distracted driver playing the popular game rammed his Toyota Rav4 straight into a parked police car. You see, in the Pokemon Go dominated world we now live in, the criminally dumb reveal themselves in droves.
Word of the somewhat hilarious crash was originally made public by the Baltimore Police Department who tweeted about the incident along with some accompanying video from a policeman’s body cam. Thankfully, no officers were inside the patrol car at the time of the incident. Further, the driver of the Rav4 escaped uninjured as well.
When officers confronted the driver, he admitted that he had his head down while playing Pokemon Go. Later in the video, the driver can be heard saying, “That’s what I get for playing this dumbass game.”
Touche my friend, touche.
Thank you, left my HTML tags in my other suit today.
Blame the player, not the game.
LOL happy to be of service. Nice video!
When will it end? When we stop giving stupid people drivers licenses.
Morons of the world are loving Pokemon Go. The cats on icanhas cheeseburger love the game
I’m going to write a game like Pokémon Go. I will call it Darwin’s Challenge.
The actual goal of the game will be to get morons to kill themselves by doing stupid stuff and weed themselves out of the gene pool before they can pollute the gene pool.
We must ban Pokemon games.
It's for the chillun.
Many people are sheep today. New store? Have to go and shop there. New stadium? Have to go even though I never went to the other one. New game? Have to get it because everyone else is doing it. This is how you get a complete bozo Obama for 8 years and possibly a Hillary too.
I think they should rename the game “Pokemoron”.
Hysteria and hype.
Pokemon Go is fun and that’s why so many people are doing it.
it’s dumasses like these that compels the gov’t to create even more laws on top of existing laws..
No, that's what you get for being a dumba**.
OPS...ROFL...reminds me of my neighbor and I sitting on the patio, a group of kids were playing, I don’t know how the kid missed the tree, but smacked right into the Washroom Building...I had to come in and shut the patio door and laughed until I was sick...
Can you believe this? So far we have had accidents, yes playing this game while driving, one guy fell into the canal, and other one drove right into a tree...
Or “Pokemon GO - Darwin Edition”.
From what I have seen so far Pokemon Go has some positive effects. People are getting outside more and getting more exercise walking around. Parks are getting more usage. People are still staring at their phones but they are interacting a little more. Obviously anyone who would drive while playing Pokemon Go would probably drive while texting also.
Better to crash into a cop car and get what you deserve than crash into a car full of children. He’s the dumbarse. A grown man playing a game for fairy dust rewards...
I see a lot of lawsuits in the future against the folks who make Pokemon Go.
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