Pokémon Go player stuck in cemetery tree, calls 911

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Pokémon Go player stuck in cemetery tree, calls 911.

The Pokémon Go craze is giving rise to all sorts of crazy situations.

In but one of many such crazy situations, first responders had to come to the rescue of a young woman who got stuck up a tree playing Pokémon Go inside a Gloucester County, New Jersey, cemetery Tuesday night.

The woman, who police described as a young adult, climbed a tree inside Eglington Cemetery to try to catch a Pokémon. 

When she couldn’t get down, she called 911 and reluctantly admitted when rescuers talked to her that she’d been playing the game.  “She was a bit embarrassed at that point,” said Rob Gould III, the township’s fire chief.

Pokéd up a tree
A Niantic image

Rescuers used a ladder to get the woman down and didn’t embarrass her any further by releasing her name.

Quincy Quarry, on the other hand, has no such compunctions about sharing the embarrassing YouTube rescue video with its ever-growing legions of readers.

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