found on the internet,,,,
"""I had to leave the house to run to the grocery to pick up a few things.
I get my stuff and I go back to my house.
There are 4 police cars and 6 police officers in my home. The front door had been knocked off the hinges, stuff everywhere, and apparently they were looking for something.
So I'm stuck outside with this police officer and they are inside searching through everything, even our washing. They checked inside my cubards under my mattress. They tore my things apart. So, as you can imagine, I'm getting upset, and I'm trying figure out what's going on.
We asked if they had a search warrant, and if We could see it. The cop in my bedroom yells, "Where did you hide it at? We know it's here! We are searching."
Then I yell back, "If I had an idea of what you're looking for sir, maybe I could help!" He shoots me the "you wanna go to jail?" look, so I shut up and watch one of the other police officers look down at his phone. Then he shouts, "Guys Stop! Hold on. We're in the wrong house! The Pokémon is next door!"""
"Anonymous Author"
The build up in the joke generates a growing amount of scare but then turns unexpectedly funny at the end. Some readers may continue to feel fear even after the joke is over.
Unfortunately the portrayal of the police is not hyperbolic, exagerated, nor unfair, it's bluntly realistic.
Which brings me to a question I have...
Is the Pokemon Go "craze" that the media reports actually happening? Or, is the media exagerating the way they may also be doing with Zika, the way they did with Ebola, the way they did with Bird Flu.
By padding the news with fluffy nonsense we are possibly being distracted away from serious issues that we are not intended to fully know or understand.
I would be happy to provide an answer to your question, Carl.....but right now I'm preoccupied with a very important issue.....I have to ask my doctor if Cialis is "right for me"...!!:(
We should all keep our voices low while Oldies919 calls his doctor.
in response to an article about a couple of local officers who were caught while on duty playing pokemon go.
Oh my goodness... it really happened! That makes it double funny!
After the line: "If I had an idea of what you're looking for sir, maybe I could help!" He shoots me the "you wanna go to jail?", I thought the punch line would be: "....we have a report that you are operating a Part 15 AM radio transmitter with a 3 foot ground lead".
In my family there are stories of how people went TV crazy when television came out. People had "TV fever" and went to stores to watch them in display windows while standing in the street. The TV dinner was supposed to have been made to respond to the TV-watching craze when viewers wouldn't take a break from the tube to make meals.
Everyone wanted TV, like they wanted VCRs and then the home computer. All of it became second nature products that we just take for granite, as common as rock, maybe as the Pet Rock was at one time?
Now it's normal if you're on line all the time, and spontaneous fads come out of that. People crave to be entertained and I guess we're joiners with our radio stations broadcasting to others, so at least we're not just consumers.
Nate has taken us from humor to philosophy. Or maybe there's no difference between the two.