Tuesday, 18 June 2019

Twenty Quail's Nests


Thirteen-year-old Blake Ockleston and his friend, Daniel Coyle-Smith (also thirteen) were out playing Pokémon GO in New Lynn, a suburb in Auckland, New Zealand. They noticed an elderly man having trouble negotiating a series of crosswalks. The man had a rolling walker with a seat, but it didn’t seem to be enough. The two boys suspended their hunt for Pokemonsters so they could help. They each took an arm, but they were only halfway through the first crosswalk when the light changed. Daniel stopped traffic so they could clear the first intersection. Then the boys had the man sit in his walker as they pushed him to his destination, the train station. Once there, they asked a security guard for help. The hero of this story might just be the publisher of Pokémon GO. If these boys weren’t out playing the mobile game, they’d have been in their moms’ basements, of no use to anyone.

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