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LAPD Cops Fired for Chasing a Snorlax
from #284 - Prozac Play-Doh | The Tim Dillon Show · #284
6 min
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Tim reads the wild court document details of two LAPD officers fired for abandoning a robbery call to hunt Pokemon Go creatures, including their absurd excuses about 'monitoring' rather than playing.
- Two LAPD officers fired for ignoring a robbery in progress to chase a Snorlax in Pokemon Go.
- Court document details twenty minutes of in-car video showing the officers discussing Pokemon as they drove to different locations.
- Tim notes the LAPD is playing a game that hasn't been popular for three years, and imagines what happens when they discover newer technology.
- The Snorlax wasn't at the furniture store where a woman was being beheaded—they got the Pokemon but not the criminal.
- Officer Mitchell describes catching the creature: 'buried it in Ultra Ball,' showing the officers used Pokemon terminology throughout.
- Mitchell remarked 'the guys are going to be so jealous'—the officers treated this as social clout among other cops.
- Tim emphasizes the LAPD has been out catching Pokemon while the city burns, with officers bragging about their catches to colleagues.
- Officers denied playing Pokemon Go while on duty, claiming they were merely 'monitoring' a Pokemon tracker application.
- Officer Mitchell claimed his statements about fighting the creature referred to 'relaying information to groups on my app,' not actual gameplay.
- Tim contrasts these two fired for catching Pokemon against officers kept on despite shooting innocent people and corruption.
- The officers claimed they were doing 'extra patrol' and catching the Snorlax simultaneously—a kill-two-birds-with-one-stone operation.
LAPDLouis LozanoEric MitchellPokemon GoSnorlax