Next Thing you know someone will invent an app that alerts you when you're on the threshold of self-destruct. I had an aunt in Orlando got hit by a car and died while listening to her Walkman. Our smartphones are a bigger distraction by far.

The first few people I witnessed playing this game in Montreal were walking erratically on McGill U campus as I was sitting on a park bench. I had no clue what they were up to. All of them were young Asian student types. Cabot square near my place is the number one Pokemon playpen for hundreds of folks who congregate late into the night and a pastor at nearby Evangel Pentecostal Church hands out free goodies to lure them into her congregation.

Let them have fun, I just hope not too many people get hurt doing it.