Pokémon hunters help save overdose victims

[Quackers]

CINCINNATI -
A search for the latest social media craze led to the rescue of two people in Cincinnati.

Deion Collier told WLWT News 5 that he and some friends were looking for "Pokémon GO" creatures on their cell phones on Sunday, visiting places from Spring Grove Cemetery to Eden Park.

Collier said they were on their way home when they came upon a slowly-rolling car on the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard overpass over I-71 with two unconscious people inside.

"Maybe 5 miles an hour, or 10. We hopped out and ran over and I grabbed the wheel so they don't go over the cliff right there then they bounced over and hit my car," Collier said.

Collier said he called 911, where operators told him to get the man and woman out of the car and begin CPR if possible.

An Anderson Township EMS unit came upon the scene and helped transport the two to a nearby hospital, where they were treated for possible overdoses.

Collier said he and his friends were glad they were able to help the couple, saying that if they hadn't been trying to find Pokémon, they'd have been at home, probably watching movies.

http://www.wlwt.com/news/pokemon-hunters-help-save-overdose-victims/40468992

At this rate, we'll need a sub-forum just for Pokemon.

[tallahasseedem]

1. That's amazing!

My kids are enamored by this thing...I guess I'm too old to get it, LOL!

[MiniMe]

2. And they have apparently gone to the Holocaust Museaum

The Museaum is not thrilled about it to say the least.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/07/12/holocaust-museum-to-visitors-please-stop-catching-pokemon-here/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

Almost everywhere you turn, it seems, people have their eyes glued to smartphone screens playing Pokémon Go. Since its launch last week, the app has quickly become a cultural phenomenon that has fans of all ages hunting around their neighborhoods for collectible digital creatures that appear on players' screens as they explore real-world locations.

But there's at least one place that would really like to keep Pokémon out: the Holocaust Museum.

The museum, along with many other landmarks, is a "PokéStop" within the game — a place where players can get free in-game items. There are three PokéStops associated with various parts of the museum.

"Playing the game is not appropriate in the museum, which is a memorial to the victims of Nazism," Andrew Hollinger, the museum's communications director, told The Post. "We are trying to find out if we can get the museum excluded from the game."