Player Stabbed While Looking for a Late-Night Virtual Battle
Michael Baker was stabbed while playing the game near his home in Forest Grove, Ore., around 1 a.m. Monday morning.
The game has been encouraging social interactions, with strangers conversing and battling each other while playing. So when Baker — who said he's "gotta be the first one to catch them all" — came across another man who was also on his phone, he asked if he was playing.
"He wanted to battle real life," Baker told the local news about the man pulling out a knife and stabbing the player in the shoulder. "I basically risked my life."
After the stabbing, he didn't immediately go to the hospital because he wanted to finish his virtual mission. He eventually got eight stitches on his shoulder and the man remains at large.
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