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Man Searching For Pokémon At 3 AM Caught Up In ‘Drug Deal’ Mix-Up
POKEMON GO
There have some very strange Pokémon Go incidents reported since the game’s re- lease, here’s just one example, and now another unusual tale has been told.
A fan of the augmented real- ity game, which layers gameplay onto the physical world, has ex- plained how he found himself hunting for Pokémon at three in the morning before a late night encounter.
The 40-year-old Reddit user explained that he couldn’t sleep and later encountered ‘two sketchy looking dudes’ on his Pokémon catching adventure.
“There is a little park a few blocks from me that had like three pokestops and a gym, so I wandered over there to see what the game could offer,” he ex- plained.
“So I get there and wander around a little checking out the stops and rustling around in the tall grass, then decide to go a few blocks away to see a couple more stops when I hear from the dark- ness a ‘Yo, my man!’
“Turning, I see two sketchy looking dudes sitting on a bench in the dark. I must have walked right past them without noticing them. One of them waves, ‘My man, check over by the blue truck over there we got an onyx earlier.’
“So I wander over by the truck and sure enough there’s a f——-g Onyx there. Awesome. So I end up chatting with the guys for a bit, told ‘em where I got my Evee, they convinced me to join red team when I hit level five so we could ‘lock s—t down” in the neighbourhood.”
Here’s where things start to get a little strange. “Then the cop shows up,” he adds.
“Yeah, so it turns out two twenty-something black dudes and a 40-year-old white guy chilling in the park at 3 am looks strange. It took a bit of talking to convince the cop we weren’t doing a drug deal, and a bit longer to explain the game. Then the cop downloaded the f——-g game on his phone and asked us how to get started.”
Pokémon Go, which encour- ages gamers to ‘switch between the virtual world and the real world’, rocketed to the top of the App Store within 24 hours of its release in the US and Australia on July 6.
In Wyoming, a teenager stumbled upon a dead body in a river while playing the new smartphone game.
Police in Australia have urged people playing Pokémon GO to look before they cross roads, warning that people were being reckless while playing the game. Meanwhile, this man caught a Pidgey on Pokémon GO as his wife gave birth.
NYPD Officer Stripped Of Badge And Gun After Road Rage Shooting
Killed After Coming In
Contact With Power Line
BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor
A 47-year-old Fish and Wildlife Officer died early Wednesday after coming in contact with a downed power line. He was riding his bicycle on a bike path when the inci- dent took place.
According to the Tampa Police Department, at ap- proximately 6;40 a.m., the of- ficer was riding his bicycle on a bike path in the 7600 block of the Courtney Campbell Causeway when he came into contact with a live electrical wire.
The Tampa Police Depart- ment, Tampa Fire Depart- ment, and Tampa Electric Company all responded to the scene. However, the vic- tim could not be touched until the power was turned off.
Once officials were able to approach the man, it was de- termined that he had died. Police said although it ap- pears that the victim died as a result of electrocution, the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner will determine the actual cause of death.
The bicyclist has been identified as Gregory Pat- terson, of Tampa. Patter- son was an active officer with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. He was off duty at the time of his death.
On Saturday, July 9th, Of- ficer Patterson was in- volved in a lifesaving mission. Shortly after 5 p.m., calls were received about a cap- sized jet ski near the Gandy Bridge in Tampa Bay. Three
OFFICER GREGORY PATTERSON
citizens were being carried by the current and were ob- served struggling in the water, police said.
Fish and Wildlife Conser- vation Officers Patterson and Richard Dearborn re- sponded to the scene in their watercraft. Upon arriving at the scene, Officer Patter- son dove into the water to as- sist the victim who was struggling the most while holding onto the throw rope.
The Tampa Police Depart- ment planned to nominate Officer Patterson for the department’s Lifesaving Award.
Officer Patterson
joined the Fish and Wildlife Conservation in December 2011, after completing a stint in the U. S. Navy. He gradu- ated from the Academy Class #18 on June 8, 2012.
On November 12, 2014, Officer Patterson and an- other officer were awarded the FWC Lifesaving Award for the actions taken to save an exhausted kayaker who had been in the water for sev- eral hours and was about to be swept out to sea.
DELRAWN SMALL
Relatives of Delrawn Small, who was killed by an off-duty NYPD officer on July 4th, at a rally and vigil where he was shot on the corner of Bradford and Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, July 6th, 2016.
A policeman was stripped of his badge and gun after se- curity footage cast doubt on initial reports of a road rage shooting in Brooklyn.
NYPD Officer Wayne Isaacs was originally be- lieved to have fatally shot Delrawn Small after Small reached through his window and punched him during a traffic dispute on July 4. But security footage obtained by the New York Post seemed to show Isaacs shooting Small as soon as Small ar-
rived at his window, the Asso- ciated Press reports.
The video is now under re- view.
Isaacs, who was wearing civilian clothes during the in- cident, has been placed on modified assignment while the shooting is investigated. NYPD Commissioner William Bratton says in- vestigators are “still seeking additional videos” and look- ing for a possible witness.
Isaacs’ police union de- clined to comment to the AP.
Man Looking For A Stolen
Horse Fatally Shot After
Waving Gun At Houston Cops
A man looking for a stolen horse was shot and killed when he waved a gun at two Houston police officers, ac- cording to a report Sunday.
The Houston Police De- partment told the Houston Chronicle the two officers were on patrol early Saturday when they spotted the man, identified by his wife as Alva Braziel, standing in the mid- dle of the street armed with a revolver.
The officers, members of a gang unit who had been on the job 10 and 12 years, ap- proached Braziel and or- dered him to drop the weapon, according to the paper.
A Houston Police Depart- ment spokeswoman said the man was shot when he raised his weapon and pointed it at the sky, but then pointed it in the direction of the officers.
Braziel may have been on drugs, Acting Houston Po- lice Chief Martha Mon- talvo said in a Saturday afternoon statement.
The paper reported that Braziel was a 38-year-old black man who had served time in prison on drug charges and was not author- ized to have a weapon.
The Harris County District
ALVA BRAZIEL
Attorney’s Office is investigat- ing the shooting which is cus- tomary in all police-involved shootings.
A Black Lives Matter Houston activist Ashton Woods questioned why gun- fire was used during an inter- view with The Washington Post.
“It’s problematic,” he told the paper. “What about a taser? What about pepper spray?”
The shooting came a day after five Dallas police officers were shot and killed by a sniper who opened fire at a rally to protest the killings of two black men by police offi- cers in Louisiana and Min- nesota.
The Dallas gunman, Micah Johnson, 25, told police negotiators he wanted to “kill white people, espe- cially white officers.”
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