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Driver Crashes Into a Baltimore Police Car While Allegedly Playing Pokémon Go
“That’s what I get for playing this dumbass game.”
Chalk up another casualty to Pokémon Go, right under being hit by a car and falling off a cliff: A motorist in Baltimore crashed into a parked police cruiser while allegedly trying to catch cartoon monsters behind the wheel.
The accident happened around 3:30 a.m. Monday and was highlighted in a police press conference about recent Pokémon-related mayhem in the city. Video from a body cam shows officers chatting on a corner when a compact SUV careens into the left side of an unoccupied cruiser. Nobody was injured in the accident. Police say the driver indicated he was looking down at his Pokémon app; on the cam video he tells them, “That’s what I get for playing this dumbass game.”