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‘Pokemon Go’ Player Arrested After Trespassing A Military Base

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After weeks of the release of the augmented mobile game "Pokemon Go," the game's phenomenon is still operating at full throttle.

A lot of reports surfaced involving oblivious gamers wandering into places they shouldn't. The most recent incident is from Indonesia, where an obsessed "Pokemon Go" Frenchman was caught inadvertently wandering into a secure military facility in Indonesia.

The Frenchman was reportedly tried to run away once he came across the security guards of the military base. But, the man was arrested and detained for a few hours after it became apparent that the Frenchman was just an unassuming Pokemon enthusiast on the search for virtual monsters, according to The Guardian.

A West Java police representative stated that the 27 year old Romain Pierre, was caught on Monday at a checkpoint after initially ran away when the security guards at the military complex in Cirebon tried to confront him.

But, the authorities released Pierre a few hours later, because it became apparent that the man unintentionally entered the complex as he was hunting Pokémon while jogging, BGR reported.

Due to the incident, the U.S. military installation home - Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, Washington, has poured out a warning about the Pokémon game.

In the official Facebook page of the base, it stated that DO NOT chase Pokémon into restricted areas, homes on base or even office buildings, based on the report of Fox News.

However, Pierre was not the first one reported to have a "Pokémon Go" incident. Last week, two men suddenly fell down a cliff in California while playing the mobile game and they both sustained moderate injuries, Mashable reported.

Anyway, "Pokemon Go" quickly became a cultural phenomenon, and just this past weekend, the mobile game fired up across a number of European countries.

And if in case you want Tips & Tricks of the game, watch the video here:

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