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Title: Children Tangled in Dipole After Special Event Station Becomes Pokéstop
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on July 13, 2016, 1850 UTC

VERMILION, OREGON – The Vermilion City Amateur Radio Club awoke early yesterday morning to the cries of local children tangled in their 80m dipole.

“From far away I could see the screens of their iPhones glowing as they called out for help in getting untangled. It was the loudest racket I’ve ever heard,” said Ash Allman, who lead the effort in freeing the kids.

The children were caught in the dipole after the S.S. Anne Park and Marina was named a Pokéstop in the popular mobile game Pokémon GO. A Pokéstop is an area, typically a landmark or park, where Pokémon Trainers can converge to get prizes and set lures to attract rare Pokémon characters. A player must physically visit these locations to collect the rewards.

“We were all set up to work into the night, but the band conditions went south so we decided to get some rest,” lamented Misty Brock, the event organizer. “It wasn’t until morning that we found about a dozen kids wrapped up in the legs of the dipole.”

At press time, the special event station had been forced to cease operation due to lack of participation, with one member finding a high-level Charmander character in his tent and the rest wandering the nearby tree line looking for a Clefairy.

Full [parody] article: http://hamhijinks.com/children-tangled-dipole-discovering-special-event-station-also-pokestop/

Title: Re: Children Tangled in Dipole After Special Event Station Becomes Pokéstop
Post by: Pigmeat on July 14, 2016, 0316 UTC

They got lucky. I knew a guy who used to live near Hershey that was trampled by a herd of Bulbosaurs. It wasn't pretty, but neither was he.

Title: Re: Children Tangled in Dipole After Special Event Station Becomes Pokéstop
Post by: Josh on July 14, 2016, 1712 UTC

lol

Title: Re: Children Tangled in Dipole After Special Event Station Becomes Pokéstop
Post by: BDM on July 14, 2016, 2327 UTC

Quote from: Pigmeat on July 14, 2016, 0316 UTC

They got lucky. I knew a guy who used to live near Hershey that was trampled by a herd of Bulbosaurs. It wasn't pretty, but neither was he.

Wait, what about the "ALosaurus"??

Title: Re: Children Tangled in Dipole After Special Event Station Becomes Pokéstop
Post by: Pigmeat on July 15, 2016, 1124 UTC

The ALosaurus  is on a rescue mission to save it's penguin brethren on a volcanic island in the South Atlantic of off Antarctica. Look for him cavorting in the ALgae off of Florida in a few months.

If he maintained in his septic tank properly, we wouldn't be having the latter problem. But as it is with all Al's, he can't see the slime for the tires.

Title: Re: Children Tangled in Dipole After Special Event Station Becomes Pokéstop
Post by: BDM on July 16, 2016, 2050 UTC

Thank you, clears things up nicely  :o :-X ;D