Went to Riverbanks Zoo Today: this new Pokemon Go game is going to kill someone

Wanted to see the new Sea Lion exhibit and new buildings.

It wasn't that hot, pretty nice day...but the story of the day was the guys/gals in their 20's running around the park staring at their phones. I thought there was some news story that broke. Later I asked a group of nerds what was going on and they let me know that they were all playing Pokemon Go. Basically they run around placed and an App Developer teamed up with Pokemon to make characters from their game appear in physical places via geo tagging locations. So people use their smart phones to find them...instead of looking at the wonderful real life things that are going on around them....we lost ourselves as a society somewhere...but that's not the point of this thread.

I was waiting for one of these nutjobs to jump into a lion pit to try to geo-tag one of these pokemon, but I didn't see that. Still I think it might happen. I saw a mentally challenged teenager (not just saying that, he was legitimately mentally challenged) playing that game and I thought that wasn't safe at all. He was leaning over the rail where they keep the ostriches and zebras. Ostriches are mean as frick, that's not safe.

Sea Lion exhibit was nice. I think they put in new AC and air filtration in a bunch of the indoor exhibits, b/c it didn't smell nearly as bas as last year. Riverbanks is one of the best zoos on the East Coast. Public walkways were exceptionally clean and maintained.