To the Editor:

I just want to begin by saying that I am overwhelmingly disappointed in how the North Country in general is reacting to Pokemon Go.

Pokemon Go is extremely popular and many cities and towns around the country are embracing it. Businesses are offering discounts to players who are on the team controller at a nearby gym. Museums offer free entry to players who can show they caught a specific type of Pokemon. Not here in the good old North Country though.

My Facebook feed is filled with people speaking out against Pokemon Go, about how it is a waste of time and they have better things to do than play a game for children (like complaining on Facebook for instance). Now we have this article about police issuing warnings to Pokemon Go players and people calling the police about suspicious activity and trespassing?

First of all, the title of the article mentioned private properties. Clickbait much?

Once you get into the article the locations discussed are churches, museums, businesses, and parks. Excuse me, but aren't nearly all of those things considered public locations? Even if the church/museum/business is closed, the application is designed in such a way that you can almost always catch a Pokemon or obtain an item from a PokeStop without actually entering the buildings. However a person, or people, who don't take any time to ask or find out about how things work will not know this, which is the problem we have here.

The majority of people in the North Country are just bitter and sad people. Louis CK nails it on the head when he talks about driving through Northern New York, "You ever just drive through a whole town and you go 'Man, everybody's life sucks here'". You really can, because up here no one ever looks happy, no one is ever friendly. I have been all over the country, the world, and this area is the worst. People up here are just waiting for an opportunity to see another person having fun and enjoying something like Pokemon Go, so they can call the police and be bitter and complain on Facebook about it.

Maybe the police should warn people about making fraudulent calls about people "trespassing" in public areas?

John Miller

Canton