Pokemon Go not a "reasonable excuse" to drive 14 miles during lockdown

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Pokemon Go not a "reasonable excuse" to drive 14 miles during lockdown

(Web Desk) - A man in the UK has been fined GBP 200 for leaving the house to play Pokemon Go in the midst of a lockdown.

The man apparently fessed up to his contravention without too much fuss, telling officers that he driven from his home in Bedworth, to Kenilworth, 14 miles away, to look for pokemon.

Police fined him for “contravening the requirement to not leave or be outside the place they live without a reasonable excuse,” according to a BBC report. “We would like to remind people they must not leave or be outside their home unless they have a reasonable excuse.”

The pandemic has hit the UK hard this month. Despite an ongoing vaccination process, a new strain of the virus hit the country with nearly 70,000 new cases being detected on January 8 alone. Lockdown rules have, therefore, been ramped up. It makes sense that rules keeping people out of public spaces and far away from each other are being enforced quite strictly.