Her reply sounded like \u201cpokey Mongo.\u201d<\/p>\n
This struck me as strange, since I have dealt with some Mongos in my life and none of them struck me as slow and pokey.\u00a0 In fact, most of them were quicker than they looked.\u00a0 This led to discussion.<\/p>\n
Turns out that Pokemon Go has gotten people in trouble, hurt, or even killed.\u00a0 They walk around blindly following images in their iPhones to find phantasmic, hideous creatures and capture them in ways I have yet to understand, and stumble cluelessly into traffic or onto the posted property of angry homeowners who don\u2019t like trespassers.<\/p>\n
And THEN, she explained that they\u2019re invisible except to her tribe of iPeople with iDevices, and surround us everywhere.\u00a0 She showed me a picture of one that sneaked up on me unnoticed while I was at a magazine stand in the Midwest waiting for her to finish shopping.\u00a0 Aauugghh!<\/p>\n
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They seem to be not only impertinent, but unresponsive to verbal commands and impervious to pain compliance techniques. Here\u2019s one she photographed in California. Turns out you can put a cigarette out on their head and they get pretty nonchalant about it.<\/p>\n
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They\u2019re also sneaky. Around Christmas, this one \u2013 apparently, a leader among his kind \u2013 tried to sneak up on me in Florida.\u00a0 This time, however, I was ready, and was able to convince him to leave at gunpoint.<\/p>\n
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Pikachu, meet \u201cGlock-at-chou!\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a scary world out there.\u00a0 Beware!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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