>My “grandson” did not tell his mother anything about this. When I asked
>him why, he said he just “knew” he shouldn’t. On further questioning
>about this, he admitted that the men said that parents shouldn’t be told
>because they might interfere.
>
>Needless to say I was alarmed. Men meeting with little boys at 6:00 p.m.
>at an abandoned school? Strange men testing children without their
>parents knowledge or permission? Talking secretly with someone inside a
>van that has its windows covered hiding someone inside while the
>”testing” is going on? TESTING FOR WHAT??? And finally a CHARACTER from
>the cartoon series appearing in “reality” from inside the van? WHAT IS
>GOING ON? This is all wrong. What were these men doing to these
>children? WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO MY “GRANDSON”? It’s obvious that
>something criminal is taking place or the children would not be
>”impressed” with the need to keep it a secret from their parents.
>
>Two days ago I read the following statement in a news item about a child
>swallowing a Pokemon ball:
>
>”Pokemon, or pocket monsters, began in 1996 as a video game in Japan in
>which players collect pet creatures with different powers and “train'’
>them for competitive battles. The game has evolved into toys, trading
>cards and a syndicated TV series that premiered last year in the United
States.
>
>This is exactly what my “grandson” went through but it wasn’t a cartoon
>episode, it was a real event, with real people. It struck me that these
>men are in fact, stalking children, looking for “PETS” to train them for
>some wierd kind of competition. There is something drastically wrong
>about the whole thing.

— some “person” talking about “Pokemon”