In case you were living in the physical world this weekend, we’re here to report that “Pokémon Go” became a thing everywhere, including Baltimore.
The augmented reality game that utilizes smartphone technology to make Pokémon appear in your vicinity is poised to lift Nintendo. Reports of bugs in the software and abuse by criminals threatened to put a damper on the hype, but there’s no question it’s a summer craze. As fellow reporter Tyler Woods put it, “You can’t take down this white whale, journos.”
Here’s how “Pokémon Go” wove into Baltimore over the last few days.

Many reports of Zubats:

https://twitter.com/HanoverM/status/752541347568058368
https://twitter.com/TheRealBwk/status/752512848224481280

It melded with other weekend activities, like the Orioles games:

https://twitter.com/BFellowsPokemon/status/752339517332336640

Even the mayor got involved:

Local businesses couldn’t ignore it:

https://twitter.com/ejjiramen/status/752551421573300224
https://twitter.com/CBRB_Baltimore/status/752530484555616256

Well-laid escape plans were abandoned:

Make fun if you want, but it brought everyone together:

https://twitter.com/Simply_Deej/status/752520024225701888
https://www.reddit.com/r/baltimore/comments/4s5aex/pok%C3%A9mon_go_bringing_the_baltimore_community/