<p> A couple has been arrested in the US for abandoning their two-year-old son alone at home while they drove around playing the widely popular location-based augmented reality game Pokemon Go.<br /></p>.<p>Brent Daley, 27, and Brianne Daley, 25, left their 2-year-old boy at San Tan Valley home in Arizona for 90 minutes in scorching heat without water while they played Pokemon Go in surrounding neighbourhoods.<br /><br />The couple was charged with child neglect and endangerment after they abandoned their toddler to play Pokemon Go, the Pinal County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.<br /><br />Police found the boy at 10:30 pm on Thursday after a neighbour dialed 911 and told authorities she found a child who appeared to have been abandoned.<br /><br />When deputies got to the home, they say the boy was in the front yard trying to get in the front door of the home.<br /><br />He was "screaming and crying (and) attempting to get into the residence," the statement said, adding that the boy was barefoot, red-faced and filthy.<br /><br />In the home, deputies found a phone number for Brent Daley, so they called and told him his child had been abandoned.<br /><br />Daley allegedly answered, then said, "Whatever", before hanging up, officials were quoted as saying by NBC News.<br /><br />The couple eventually returned and admitted to driving around the area, stopping at parks and elsewhere while playing Pokemon Go, they said.<br /><br />Sheriff Paul Babeu offered the alleged crime up as a cautionary tale, saying that what the couple had done was "beyond comprehension."<br /><br />The incident comes amid a surge in incidents of people getting into trouble while playing Pokemon Go.<br /><br />Last month, two Canadian teenaged brothers inadvertently crossed the US-Canada border while playing Pokemon Go, causing a rare international incident.<br /><br />Cleveland Police issued a warning after a driver in Stourbridge, West Midlands, was fined for playing while driving.<br />In another incident in the US, someone drove into a police car while playing the game at the wheel.<br /><br />A teenager was shot dead in Guatemala after being ambushed while playing the game with his cousin. <br /></p>
<p> A couple has been arrested in the US for abandoning their two-year-old son alone at home while they drove around playing the widely popular location-based augmented reality game Pokemon Go.<br /></p>.<p>Brent Daley, 27, and Brianne Daley, 25, left their 2-year-old boy at San Tan Valley home in Arizona for 90 minutes in scorching heat without water while they played Pokemon Go in surrounding neighbourhoods.<br /><br />The couple was charged with child neglect and endangerment after they abandoned their toddler to play Pokemon Go, the Pinal County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.<br /><br />Police found the boy at 10:30 pm on Thursday after a neighbour dialed 911 and told authorities she found a child who appeared to have been abandoned.<br /><br />When deputies got to the home, they say the boy was in the front yard trying to get in the front door of the home.<br /><br />He was "screaming and crying (and) attempting to get into the residence," the statement said, adding that the boy was barefoot, red-faced and filthy.<br /><br />In the home, deputies found a phone number for Brent Daley, so they called and told him his child had been abandoned.<br /><br />Daley allegedly answered, then said, "Whatever", before hanging up, officials were quoted as saying by NBC News.<br /><br />The couple eventually returned and admitted to driving around the area, stopping at parks and elsewhere while playing Pokemon Go, they said.<br /><br />Sheriff Paul Babeu offered the alleged crime up as a cautionary tale, saying that what the couple had done was "beyond comprehension."<br /><br />The incident comes amid a surge in incidents of people getting into trouble while playing Pokemon Go.<br /><br />Last month, two Canadian teenaged brothers inadvertently crossed the US-Canada border while playing Pokemon Go, causing a rare international incident.<br /><br />Cleveland Police issued a warning after a driver in Stourbridge, West Midlands, was fined for playing while driving.<br />In another incident in the US, someone drove into a police car while playing the game at the wheel.<br /><br />A teenager was shot dead in Guatemala after being ambushed while playing the game with his cousin. <br /></p>