Playing Pokemon GO lands 23-year-old Iowa footballer in police trouble

Pokemon Go is the latest craze that has taken the world by storm and a 23-year-old football player in Iowa discovered the hard way that the game is loaded with danger. Oblivious of his surroundings, he was so engrossed in the game in Iowa City Park that he suddenly found himself in the cross hairs of four police guns.
His crime was that he looked very much like a man who had robbed a bank a stone's throw away.
This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 25 July 2016.

The 1.92m, 130kg athlete was "happy to be alive" after five police officers stopped him and pointed four guns at him. He fit the description of a man who had just robbed a bank less than 10 minutes ago. The suspect had been described as a large black male, wearing all black, with something on top of his head and was armed.
While driving past the park located less than three minutes away from the bank that had just been robbed, they notice a large black man, dressed in all black, with black goggles on his head. Obviously, they moved into action, identified themselves as the Iowa City police and ask him to turn around and place his hands up in the air.
He did not comply because he had his headphone on and just could not hear them!!
It was sheer Providence that saved him otherwise it could have ended in a nasty and unpleasant situation.


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