Everything in life is about choices: Eat cake or exercise? Skip school or go to class? Work or call in sick? Catch a criminal or play ‘Pokémon Go‘? The answer might seem obvious, but some Los Angeles police officers apparently didn’t see it that way at the time. And one might think there’s no evidence, but their car’s camera has revealed a complete police disaster.
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“Your Honor! It’s true that my clients chose to ignore a robbery to catch Pokémon, yes! But they were a Snorlax and a Togetic, quite rare to find, isn’t that more important than a human life?” Yes, the lawyer definitely has a tough case here. But it’s even worse than it sounds because not only did they fail to prevent the robbery, but they also broke the law themselves.
The video shows the driver ignoring a stop sign, speeding through residential areas, driving the wrong way… all to catch a Snorlax and a Togetic. It’s worth mentioning, this didn’t happen this year but back in 2017, during the peak of the game’s popularity. But back then, there was no public video evidence of the incident… and now it has come to light.
In the video, they can be seen worried about losing the Snorlax (“It’s going to turn pink and change into something else”), discussing the powers of Togetic, getting excited about the possibility that ‘Pokémon Go‘ might one day release the Master Ball in its code (they guessed right about 70 months in advance), and commenting that the other police officers would be jealous of their feat. Yes. Well. Not exactly.
They could have gotten away with it and been outstanding police-Pokémon trainers, but they messed up by not responding to the radio for forty minutes during the robbery, which alerted their boss. Their lies didn’t help them at all, and in the end, the evidence has made the truth hit them like a Snorlax taking its ninth nap of the day. Look on the bright side: now they’ll have much more time to dedicate to their favorite game.
