Posted on Aug 3, 2016
Vietnam Vet Charged Following Fight With Pokémon Go Players In Memorial Park
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I'm sure all of you know about this. This guy went off his PTSD rocker, but I can't blame him. The Pokemon players had a campsite set up in a Veterans Memorial Park. If it had been me, I would have called the police. So why does the news media have to say he's a Vietnam vet? It could have been anybody. Why can't they say "an irate man"?
A viral video shows a showdown between veterans and a group of Pokémon Go players in a Minnesota park that resulted in arrest.
To play Pokémon Go, the wildly popular augmented reality game, players must scour the Earth catching magical creatures that they then use to wage battles with other players in virtual arenas. But during a recent expedition through the little town of Winona, Minnesota, several Pokémon catchers found themselves waging a real-life battle instead. Fed up with hordes of teenagers playing the game in the town’s Veterans Memorial Park, a group of local vets decided to take matters into their own hands and try to force the players off the grounds. The ensuing confrontation was filmed.
A viral video shows a showdown between veterans and a group of Pokémon Go players in a Minnesota park that resulted in arrest.
To play Pokémon Go, the wildly popular augmented reality game, players must scour the Earth catching magical creatures that they then use to wage battles with other players in virtual arenas. But during a recent expedition through the little town of Winona, Minnesota, several Pokémon catchers found themselves waging a real-life battle instead. Fed up with hordes of teenagers playing the game in the town’s Veterans Memorial Park, a group of local vets decided to take matters into their own hands and try to force the players off the grounds. The ensuing confrontation was filmed.
Vietnam Vet Charged Following Fight With Pokémon Go Players In Memorial Park
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SFC Craig Dalen, He would have been ok yelling and cussing. If he hadn't knocked their little sunshade cover over and tackled it, he wouldn't have been arrested. Or, are you writing about the entire event, is rediculous.
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SFC Craig Dalen
No that he was arrested, I feel what they are doing is a slap in the face of the families. They deserve to be shown how disrespectful their actions were.
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So long as they're not causing any significant damage (temporary or permanent) to the area I see no harm in them spending time in the park playing their game. On the other hand I also see how some may see it as a slap to the face of veterans to be loitering on a veteran's memorial park, this was just the wrong way to go about settling their differences.
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