I just found out about this game yesterday. I’ve got zero interest in video games so I really don’t care but...
Our church is a checkpoint or center or whatever they call it. We block the driveway when no one is there. If the building is locked, there’s no reason for people to be there.
In the past they’ve had problems with people partying behind the building so I understand their reasons for blocking the drive.
I’m going to have to find some way to explain this to the leaders that people may be trespassing on the property in the hopes of playing a video game.
Hopefully the fad ends soon.
Geocachers have destroyed 18th century remote and rural cemeteries in my area, and in some cases, have damaged or stolen irreplaceable wrought iron fencing around family plots.
Head stones, some literally only pieces of field stone with names scratched into them, have been damaged and moved.
Personally, it enrages me that idiots playing “games” are stomping all over my dead kinfolk for “fun”.
Yes. A game that draws crowds to churches... how terrible.
Our town has had a metamorphosis over the weekend.
Parents are out with their kids, cheering them on. The park is full. The monuments are getting attention. Old, young, black, white... we’re all playing.
Kids are getting help from teens to learn the game. Old ladies are walking with black men as they’re learning how to battle. The cops are pulling over young people at 2AM to tell them where to capture a Pikachu. Neighbors are getting out and meeting neighbors.
Yesterday morning there were more than 50 people in the park. Last night, there were hundreds. Shut-ins are being drawn out. People who desperately need exercise are braving the heat to walk the pavement.
When you have a dozen people congregating at a church at 10PM - for whatever reason - and there are no fights or arguments, you’ve got a good thing.
If the pastors were smart, they’d open their doors and offer game players bottled water along with good wishes. If they’re really smart, they’ll invite people in to sit while they battle at the gym and offer them free bibles, friendship and community.
Watched a cop and a young black man standing on the corner, exchanging tips the other night at 11PM.
Race didn’t matter. Politics didn’t matter.
Only community in the game mattered.
We don’t have any BLM protests scheduled here.
Now go Red Team Valor! lol!
The first time someone gets shot looking for one of these things on a private land there is going to be Congressional hearings.
Because this is important