Look, weren’t we only just warning people last week to be more careful playing this game in these strange and uncertain times?
[referenced id=”1200661″ url=”https://www.kotaku.com.au/2021/01/its-2021-theres-still-a-pandemic-going-on-be-careful-playing-pokmon-go/” thumb=”https://www.gizmodo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/01/13/fzwfaecqbjpr4qjq7smr-300×169.png” title=”It’s 2021, There’s Still A Pandemic Going On, Be Careful Playing Pokémon Go” excerpt=”Pokémon Go made over $US1 ($1.4) billion last year, which means loads of you are still playing it. Which is great! But hey, just remember, we’re still somehow in the middle of a global pandemic, and so going outside isn’t always the smartest idea.”]
The BBC reports a man in England — a nation currently in lockdown in an attempt to curb a rampant infection rate arising from a new, more contagious strain of Covid-19 — has broken the country’s strict restrictions to play some Pokémon Go, and as a result has been caught and fined by local police.
The £200 ($353) fine was for “contravening the requirement to not leave or be outside the place they live without a reasonable excuse”, after he admitted to police he had driven “from his home in Bedworth to look for the characters in Kenilworth”, a trip of around 25 minutes by car.
Police say folks are only allowed outside their homes with “a reasonable excuse”. Looking for Pokémon is not a reasonable excuse.
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