US state trooper finds parked driver playing ‘Pokemon Go’ on eight phones

A piece of foam, cut to hold eight mobile phones in place – all of them playing the game Pokemon Go – is shown on the passenger seat of a vehicle driven by a person who was found pulled over on the shoulder of a highway in Washington state near Seattle by a Washington state trooper who thought the driver needed assistance. — Washington State Patrol/AP

BURIEN, Washington: A Washington state trooper who pulled over to help what he thought was a disabled vehicle found something else instead: The driver had eight phones simultaneously playing the videogame Pokemon Go.

The driver was stopped on the shoulder of Highway 518 in Burien, south of Seattle, on Tuesday evening.