Of course an Olympic athlete racked up a $5,000 cellphone bill playing Pokemon Go

[Guest Chris Mills]

http://androidforum.us/data/MetaMirrorCache/6a7b7f817bd39f90640f8a186064fbf7.jpgCellular companies are bad. The Olympics are a shambles, and Pokemon Go is looking more and more like the start of a zombie movie. So it makes sense that all these events would come to a head with this gem of a news story. As reported by Kyodo News, Japanese gymnast Kohei Uchimura is "hooked" on Pokemon Go, and downloaded the game the second he touched down in Rio. He forgot to check his data usage however, and like the rest of us mere mortals, was hit with a ridiculous cellphone bill.

 

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