Pokémon Go on decline -
Pokémon Go stories stopped being funny some time ago.
Perhaps it was the day in July when a man in Florida man opened fire on two teenagers at 1:30 a.m. while they were sitting in a car playing the game. Neither was injured.
Or maybe it was when two men fell off a cliff overlooking the Pacific near San Diego while chasing Pokémon monsters, suffering only moderate injuries despite falling between 75 and 50 feet.
Now comes a report, via the Post’s Anna Fifield in Japan, of a truck driver who, distracted while playing Pokémon Go, crashed into two pedestrians, Sachiko Nakanishi, 72, and Kayoko Ikawa, 60, killing the first and severely injuring the second on Tuesday. As Fifield reported:
Keiji Goo, a 39-year-old farmer, was playing the game while driving a small truck in Tokushima prefecture on the island of Shikoku.
He struck two women while they were crossing the road, killing 72-year-old Sachiko Nakanishi and breaking the hip of 60-year-old Kayoko Ikawa. Goo told Tokushima police that he had been playing the game while driving, the Kyodo news agency reported.
“I was playing Pokémon Go while driving, so I didn’t really see what was in front of me,” the public broadcaster NHK quoted the driver as telling police when he was arrested.