If you’re not being scolded at work for playing Pokémon Go, or if you’re not crashing your car while playing Pokémon Go, you’re probably getting arrested for playing it like the idiot in this story did.
According to the Detroit Free Press, a 26-year-old “Pokémon Go” player in Milford with an outstanding warrant is now behind bars after he followed the map in the massively popular game to a gym. And unfortunately for him, the gym was located across the street from a police station where two police offers recognized him and quickly arrested him.
“A couple of our officers looked out the window and saw him standing out by the flagpole,” Police Chief Tom Lindberg said.
The man was wanted on a misdemeanor warrant for failure to appear in court on a breaking and entering charge, but now Lindberg can thank this shitty game for doing his job for him.
“When I first learned about this game, I was very concerned it was taking young adults into places they shouldn’t necessarily be — and could get hurt, if they’re not paying attention to what’s going on around them,” Lindberg said. “But I never thought someone with a warrant would be so driven by the game that they’d walk right up to the police station.”
The man was arraigned following his arrest and released on personal bond.
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