<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="4365367" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="badgers">Badgers</keyword> in a town in Northern <keyword id="6355981" type="LOCATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="england">England</keyword> are wrecking graves - paining the bereaved.</li><li>One man found that 101 graves were damaged in a single night.</li></ul><ul class="summary-list"><li>Those impacted want the badgers removed, but that can only be done with a special license.</li></ul>Gravedigging badgers are causing pain to the bereaved as they uproot the sites where loved ones are laid to rest. In a small town in Northumberland, Northern England, local residents are fearful that the badgers will start digging up dead bodies. <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bereaved-on-guard-against-grave-robbing-badgers-8hjlkwqqj">The Sunday Times' Hannah Al-Othman reports </a>that one man, who lost his wife to motor neurone disease, had installed cameras in the cemetery to watch why plots appeared to be disturbed. In one night, he saw 101 graves damaged by the badgers. Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-wildfires-heat-drought-floods-effect-homes-housing-market-2021-7?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T">The climate crisis is already upending American real estate - with trillions at stake</a>"It's absolutely devastating," The unnamed man told The Sunday Times. "There was an old lady lying on her husband's grave, breaking her heart because it had been dug up. Little babies' graves have been dug up. If anything happened to my wife's grave, I think I would just sit in the car all night to protect it."The grieving man is hoping for the badgers to be sedated and removed, allowing peace to be restored in this place of rest. The damage by the badgers hunting for worms and grubs has been repeatedly reported to the county council, who have said they cannot take any action as per the Protection of Badgers Act.A license is needed from Natural England to move the badgers, an offshoot of the Department for <keyword id="6356826" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ENVIRONMENT">Environment</keyword>, Food, and Rural Affairs. However, such a license can only be obtained if the animals are thought to be doing serious damage and not just foraging. Georgina Hill, a local county councilor, told The Sunday Times that there is a delicate balance to be struck between protecting the interests and emotions of animal rights groups, local ecology, residents, mourning families, and laws.

Gravedigging badgers in an English cemetery are causing the bereaved heartache

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Two headstones bearing <keyword id="53072" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Nazi">Nazi</keyword> swastikas have been removed from a cemetery in San Antonio, Texas following complaints from veterans and their families.</li><li>The headstones, which were removed and replaced on Wednesday, marked the graves of German prisoners of war from <keyword id="6357515" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="World-War-II">World War II</keyword>.</li><li>"It's jarring to think that symbols of the Third Reich and the Nazi regime would stand in an American military cemetery," Rep. Joaquin Castro said.</li></ul>Two headstones bearing Nazi swastikas have been removed from Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas following complaints from veterans and their families.The headstones marked the graves of German prisoners of war from World War II and had been there since 1947, the San Antonio Express-News <a href="https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Nazi-headstones-removed-at-Fort-Sam-15824562.php">reported</a>. The newspaper said 140 prisoners of war are buried at the cemetery.The cemetery director and his staff quietly removed the headstones of Alfred P. Kafka and Georg Forst on Wednesday and replaced them with new ones.The men had received the Iron Cross, an award in the German military at the time that featured the Nazi <keyword id="7116" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Swastika">swastika</keyword>, the Express-News reported. The headstones also had a German phrase that translates to: "He died far from his home for the Führer, people and fatherland.""Clearly, it took a long time for this to happen, and it's obviously the right thing to have been done," Michael L. Weinstein, founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, said, The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/san-antonio-houston-sam-houston-40ea373b993cd3b94c37c3dead1d3579">reported</a>.His foundation was behind the action, advocating for the removal of the gravestones to Robert Wilkie, the Veterans Affairs secretary.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—San Antonio Express-News (@ExpressNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1341784912777654277?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 23, 2020</a></blockquote>The AP reported the VA was not willing to make a public apology about the graves' despite Wilkie's demands, and said "historic resources" should be protected even if they are divisive. The VA ultimately agreed to remove them in June, after lawmakers and veterans activists said they were disrespectful, Military Times <a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/06/01/nazi-headstones-will-be-removed-from-us-veterans-cemeteries-va-leaders-say/">reported</a>."It is understandably upsetting to our veterans and their families to see Nazi inscriptions near those who gave their lives for this nation," Wilkie said at the time. "That's why VA will initiate the process required to replace these POW headstones."Texas lawmakers Sen. Ted Cruz, Rep. Will Hurd, and Rep. Kay Granger supported the headstone's removal, according to the AP.Rep. Joaquin Castro also said he was "glad" they were replaced."It's jarring to think that symbols of the Third Reich and the Nazi regime would stand in an American military cemetery," he said.

2 Nazi headstones bearing swastikas have been removed from a Texas cemetery

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A 'nostalgic' Confederate monument will be removed from Arlington National Cemetery.</li><li>The sculptor's descendants have spoken out in favor of removing the statue to a museum. </li></ul>A Confederate monument in Arlington National Cemetary is going to be removed imminently despite the objections of a slew of Congressional Republicans.The memorial will be removed and stored in a "secure" Department of Defense facility until it goes to its final destination, an ANC spokesperson said in a statement to Business Insider. That final destination has yet to be announced.The removal will take place by December 22, according to an <a target="_blank" href="https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Media/News/Post/13389/Confederate-Memorial-Removal-Update-and-Advisory">update</a> on the cemetery's website."During the deconstruction, the area around the Memorial will be protected to ensure no impact to the surrounding landscape and grave markers and to ensure the safety of visitors in and around the vicinity of the deconstruction," the site says.The monument was first displayed in 1914 and includes Confederate soldiers and their slaves."The elaborately designed monument offers a nostalgic, mythologized vision of the Confederacy, including highly sanitized depictions of slavery," reads the description of the monument on the cemetery's <a target="_blank" href="https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Explore/Monuments-and-Memorials/Confederate-Memorial">website</a>.One part of the statue shows an enslaved "Mammy" – a female slave typically depicted as happy and grateful to their slavemasters – holding a white officer's baby.The removal is scheduled to move ahead despite conservative objections in Congress. Over 40 Republicans wrote to the Department of Defense demanding that it prevent the removal or risk "denigrating the delicate balance" of powers between the legislative and executive branches, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/house-republicans-urge-pentagon-dod-stops-removal-confederate-memorial-virginia-2023-12">BI</a> previously reported.Descendants of the statue's sculptor, confederate soldier Moses Jacob Ezekiel, have said the monument was designed to "rewrite history" and "justify the Confederacy and the subsequent racist Jim Crow laws.""It glorifies the fight to own human beings, and, in its portrayal of African Americans, implies their collusion," the family wrote in a 2017 letter to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/descendants-of-rebel-sculptor-remove-confederate-memorial-from-arlington-national-cemetery/2017/08/18/d4da6a3e-842b-11e7-ab27-1a21a8e006ab_story.html">The Washington Post</a>. "Take it out of its honored spot in Arlington National Cemetery and put it in a museum that makes clear its oppressive history."

An Arlington Cemetery memorial that depicts a 'nostalgic' version of the Confederacy will be removed imminently over GOP objections 

<ul class="summary-list"><li>President <keyword id="99719" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="joe-biden" source="Orion">Joe Biden</keyword> visited his late son's gravesite on the anniversary of his death, which fell on <keyword id="13989335" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="memorial-day" source="Orion">Memorial Day</keyword>.</li><li><keyword id="13287587" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="beau-biden" source="Orion">Beau Biden</keyword>, an Iraq War veteran, died of brain cancer on May 30, 2015. He was 46. </li></ul>President Joe Biden and his family visited the gravesite of his late son, Beau Biden, on the anniversary of his death, which fell on Memorial Day this year. Beau, an Iraq War veteran, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/beau-biden-son-of-vice-president-joe-biden-has-died-2015-5">died of brain cancer</a> on May 30, 2015, at age 46, while his father was serving as vice president during the Obama administration.On Monday morning, the Bidens attended a service at St. Joseph on the Brandywine in Wilmington, Delaware. First Lady Jill Biden carried in a bouquet of pink flowers. Following the service, the president and first lady walked to Beau's gravesite at the church cemetery. They were accompanied by Biden's grandchildren and his sister, Valeria Biden Owens. President Biden is due to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPjdiJa7RfU">deliver a speech</a> from Arlington National Cemetary in observance of Memorial Day later on Monday. Beau served two terms as Delaware's attorney general and did a one-year tour in Iraq where he served as a captain in the Delaware Army National Guard. He said that he would run for governor of Delaware in 2016, despite looming questions about his health. He had been hospitalized on several occasions, including a mild stroke in 2010 and an operation in 2013 to remove a lesion from his brain. He was diagnosed with brain cancer two years before his death, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/cd7d717ab72b486a946602ca6c27280c">Associated Press</a>. President Biden has <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-honored-his-son-beau-in-his-memorial-day-speech-2021-5">frequently</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-gets-emotional-on-visit-to-arlington-after-afghanistan-announcement-2021-4">spoken</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/video-joe-biden-cries-beau-delaware-farewell-address-2021-1">about</a> losing a child, most recently in his <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/05/24/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-school-shooting-in-uvalde-texas/">remarks</a> following the <a href="https://www.insider.com/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-tx-robb-elementary-2022-5">Uvalde school shooting</a> in Texas. "To lose a child is like having a piece of your soul ripped away. There's a hollowness in your chest, and you feel like you're being sucked into it and never going to be able to get out. It's suffocating. And it's never quite the same," Biden said. Prior to the death of his son in 2015, Biden's <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-marks-anniversary-1972-car-crash-killed-wife-daughter-neilia-naomi/">first wife and infant daughter</a> were killed in a car crash in 1972.

Biden pays a Memorial Day visit to his son Beau's gravesite on the anniversary of his death

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/578237b2dd0895e45e8b4698-841/pikachu.jpg" alt="pikachu Pokemon" data-mce-source="The Pokemon Company">The Pokemon Company</img></div></div></div>The fun part of playing <a href="http://www.thisisinsider.com/pokemon-go-catch-pokemon-in-new-york-city-2016-7">Pokemon Go</a> is the exploring. The goal of the augmented reality game is to find and catch Pokemon in real-life locations, as well as collect items at places called Pokestops.Pokestops&#xa0;can be located anywhere. From my experience, their locations in the game usually&#xa0;correspond to the real-life location of a statue, a store, or a plaque. But some players have found out that there's another place where you can find Pokestops: gravestones."I have a graveyard in my backyard. All of the graves are Pokestops," Reddit user&#xa0;TheBatInTheBirdcage <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4rp9vp/i_have_a_graveyard_in_my_backyard_all_of_the/">posted in the Pokemon Go subreddit</a>. Here's a screenshot of the user's game -- the floating blue cubes are Pokestops.<div><blockquote class="imgur-embed-pub" lang="en" data-id="lc50S5h"><a href="//imgur.com/lc50S5h">View post on imgur.com</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//s.imgur.com/min/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>It doesn't seem like a fluke; other players are reporting similar experiences. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4rp9vp/i_have_a_graveyard_in_my_backyard_all_of_the/d53jwm8">One commeter in that Reddit thread</a> said a local cemetary has three gyms -- places where you can battle other Pokemon Go players -- and is filled with Pokestops. <a href="http://sploid.gizmodo.com/did-pokemon-go-put-a-gym-in-an-actual-graveyard-1783333909">A few YouTubers found Pokemon gyms and Pokestops</a> at nearby cemetaries, and there are are also Pokemon Go locations at memorials, including <a href="https://twitter.com/bigratsgoboom/status/750872353383575553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">the 9/11 Memorial Pool</a>.I haven't seen reports of anyone finding&#xa0;ghost-type Pokemon at cemetaries just yet, though.The upside of playing Pokemon Go at a cemetary&#xa0;is that they're usually not very busy, and so you can run around and catch Pokemon in relative peace. The clusters of close-together Pokestops on graves also means that you can potentially collect hundreds of items like Pokeballs really easily and quickly. The downside is that you're in a cemetary. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/this-19-year-old-gymnast-is-about-ot-blow-up-at-the-olympics-2016-7">This 19-year-old gymnast is already one of the best ever, and she's about to blow up at the Olympics</a></h3> <div> <div> <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="x5NGdpNDE635FdDZAqjH6b0wi2AyEAFl" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> <script> if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; } RunFunctions.push(function() { var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', 'x5NGdpNDE635FdDZAqjH6b0wi2AyEAFl',{ autoplay: 'false' }); }); </script> <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div> </div> <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script> </div>

The best place to play Pokemon Go is pretty creepy

<div class="image-container float_right" style="width:400px"><div class="image"><img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/518bac3deab8ea8c53000022-708-531/tamerlan-and-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-3.jpg?maxX=400" border="0" alt="Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev" width="400" /></div>AP Photo/The Lowell Sun &amp; Robin Young, File</div>Boston bombing suspect <keyword id="1644402" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tamerlan-Tsarnaev">Tamerlan Tsarnaev</keyword> has been <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/05/10/boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-tamerlan-tsarnaev-buried-doswell-virginia-according-two-sources/oUSG5LXyAWmiLlQJ4YlSKM/story.html">buried in an all-Muslim burial site in Virginia</a>, the Boston Globe reports.
Tsarnaev has been buried at the Al-Barzakh Cemetary in Doswell, Va, <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/05/10/boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-tamerlan-tsarnaev-buried-doswell-virginia-according-two-sources/oUSG5LXyAWmiLlQJ4YlSKM/story.html">sources tell the Globe</a>.
The site currently has 12 Muslims buried there, <a href="http://ifsva.org/about/">according to a website bearing its name</a>.
Multiple cemeteries in Massachusetts had <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/where-will-tamerlan-tsarnaev-be-buried-2013-5">refused to the accept Tsarnaev's body</a> due to his alleged involvement in the Boston Marathon's bombings. <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/05/05/cambridge-officials-say-tsarnaev-can-buried-city-cemetery/cCsII4AnDxSxgI4s92qlCL/story.html">Tsarnaev's uncle was initially insistent</a> that Tamerlan, who died during a police shootout on April 19, be buried in Massachusetts, but those plans fell through after local resistance.
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/body-of-tamerlan-tsarnaev-buried-2013-5">According to reports yesterday</a>, Tsarnaev's body had been moved from the funeral home for burial on Wednesday. The location of the burial was not released.
"A courageous and compassionate person came forward to provide the assistance needed to properly bury the deceased," Worcester police Sgt. Kerry Hazelhurst <a href="http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/22205043/worcester-pd-tsarnaevs-body-has-been-moved-from-city">told FOX 25</a>.

REPORT: Tamerlan Tsarnaev Buried At Muslim Site In Virginia

<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image on-image"><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5266778b6bb3f79673059252-1200-924/spongebob-squarepants-2.png?maxX=480" border="0" alt="Spongebob Squarepants" width="480" /><a href="http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/10/21/family-clashes-with-cemetery-over-spongebob-headstone/">via WLWT-TV</a></div></div>The recent removal of two 7,000 pound Spongebob Squarepants <a href="http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/10/21/family-clashes-with-cemetery-over-spongebob-headstone/#ixzz2iSFAfT4M">headstones from a cemetery has a</a> family grief stricken.
On Valentine's Day of this year, Kimberly Walker, a 28-year-old U.S. <keyword id="15350" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Army">Army</keyword> sergeant, was found dead in a Colorado Springs hotel room, allegedly by her soldier boyfriend's hand.
Along with purchasing plots for the whole family, Deborah Walker, Kimberly's mother, paid $26,000 for two Spongebob headstones, one in an Army uniform for Kimberly, and one in a sailor uniform for her twin sister, who's currently serving in the U.S. Navy.
Walker signed a contract for the six plots and placement of the two headstones.
Though it seems like an employee at Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati didn't have a firm grasp on the Spring Grove brand, because within 24 hours, the company removed the two headstones.
Their statement was:
"Although the family chose a design with the guidance of a Spring Grove employee, unfortunately the monuments did not fit within the Spring Grove cemetary guidelines. We are working with the Walker family and are committed to a design a solution at our expense."
<keyword id="6359526" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Military">Military</keyword> <keyword id="6355784" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="death">death</keyword> gratuities pay out approximately $100,000, but it's unclear if the Walker's used these funds to pay for the headstones.
Here's the full news report from WLWT:
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Military Family Furious About Removal Of 7,000-Pound SpongeBob Headstones

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/579fecbc88e4a714088bc4e1-1260/joey pham pokemon.jpg" alt="joey pham pokemon" data-mce-source="Joey Pham" data-mce-caption="Scenes from Joey Pham's Sydney Pokémon adventure." />Joey PhamScenes from Joey Pham's Sydney Pokémon adventure.</div></div></div>Peter-Joey Pham had a plan. After reading that Nick Johnson, America's first Pokémon Go master, was <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/nik-johnson-gets-worldwide-trip-to-catch-pokemon-2016-7">leaving for a worldwide trip to catch the three monsters that are only available internationally</a>, Pham decided to book his own global Pokémon adventure. He shared his story with Business Insider, and it's a doozy.Last week, he booked a last-minute flight from Manhattan, where he works in finance, to Sydney, Australia, to catch the regionally exclusive Kangaskhan. Then, he talked himself out of it.But his coworkers wouldn't let him stop before he even began. So on Friday, July 29th, Pham ended up at New York's Kennedy airport, waiting for his flight to Sydney, at the same time Johnson was at the same airport waiting for a flight to Paris in his quest for Mr. Mime.Pham's plan was both simple and a little insane: He couldn't take a lot of time off from work. So he planned an itinerary that would leave him 14 hours to catch Kangaskhan in Sydney, 10 hours to catch Farfetch'd in Tokyo, and 12 hours to get Mr. Mime in London. "I had a high degree of confidence that I could do it at the time I booked based on my research regarding nests (typical MIT grad)," Pham writes in an email to Business Insider. "Roughly 10 hours to catch one Pokémon at a given nest, sounds reasonable right?"He wasn't expecting to beat Johnson to total Pokémon mastery, but thought it might be fun to spark a good-natured rivalry. It didn't work out that way. At all.<h2>Australian Pokémon adventure</h2>The problems began at the airport: At the terminal he realized that he wasn't sure if his phone would work in Australia, which would make playing Pokémon Go impossible. So he tried to cancel his tickets. They told him he couldn't cancel after he checked in, so he decided that he had to get on the flight, or sacrifice the $1,000 or so he spent on last-minute tickets to Sydney.It was only then, as he was about to get on the plane, that he told his long-distance girlfriend for the first time that he was going on a worldwide Pokémon adventure with only a 30-pound backpack for company."[She] is in denial that I am actually traveling. After I send her my itinerary, after the shock settles, a quick fight ensues but the argument is cut off thanks to lift off," Pham writes.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/579fed2e88e4a71a008bc4af-1932" alt="joey pham pokemon sydney" data-mce-source="Joey Pham" data-mce-caption="Pham on his way to Sydney" />Joey PhamPham on his way to Sydney</div></div></div>He got off the plane at 8AM Sydney time to find that he had 2G internet service, which isn't fast, but fast enough for the game. He rented a bike and went cruising for Kangaskhan over and around Sydney's many hills and through a beachside cemetary, only to find...nothing. By this time, his long-distance girlfriend had come around and was cheering him on.Exhausted, and realizing his bike wasn't worth much against Sydney's hills as he shuffled between Pokémon hotspots like Burrows Park and Bonte Park, he returned the bike. Then he got hit by a car.<h2>Kangaskhan Shuffle</h2>"The accident is serious enough that I can barely move for several minutes and pain pierces through my arm and shoulder every time I try move my right arm (still hurts as I type this)," Pham says. "I think to myself, I could have died searching for Pokemon…what has my life arrived to."In pain, but not willing to give up just yet, Pham dragged himself to Sydney's Crystal Street, where he ran into a gaggle of fellow trainers also looking for the elusive Kangaskhan. Those players informed him that Niantic, the developers of Pokémon Go, had reshuffled the areas where Pokémon appear, all over the world. Which means that they literally couldn't tell him where Kangaskhan might be. It was the same story over by the Sydney Opera House.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5798d6b1dd08951e578b47e7-1692/regional pokemon go map.jpg" alt="Regional Pokemon GO map" data-mce-source="The Pokemon Company / Tech Insider" />The Pokemon Company / Tech InsiderA map of each region's exclusive Pokémon. Kangaskhan is Australia's.</div></div></div>Says Pham:Wait. WHAT. I had spent thousands of dollars, traveled thousands of miles to catch these imaginary electronic monsters that no longer were in the places I had researched. I am in an unknown city, have bruises and cuts all over my body, can barely move my right arm and am struggling to carry my ever growing heavy pack. And I had less than 5 hours before my flight to Tokyo.Totally revulsed at the idea of repeating this process all over again, Pham decided to cancel his flight to Tokyo, book a hotel in Sydney, and be a tourist, rather than spend all that money to repeat this physically gruelling process."How different Sydney was without a 30lb pack and you aren't interviewing randos about a kangaroo," Pham jokes.And then, on his way back to the Sydney airport, he found and caught a Kangaskhan - right at the last possible minute. It was only a CP125, which is pretty weak, but he didn't care."I let out a roar and a guy across the street laughs and tells me he got him too. I run over to him and tell him my story and he stares at me in disbelief," Pham writes.<h2>Aftermath</h2>So Pham is going to spend a little time in Honolulu before he heads back to New York City. Still, with 143 Pokémon caught, he's currently tied with Johnson, who caught Mr. Mime in Paris over the weekend. So it wasn't a total loss, by his reckoning, and he says he has no regrets."As I am making my way through customs, I can't help but smile. I am exhausted, dirty, with possible broken bones, pain shooting everywhere and thousands of dollars on my credit card bill to account for…but I did it, I got my fake, electronic, armored kangaroo," Pham says.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/54e5ff4cecad041f0654bce7-2400/sydney opera house australia submarine.jpg" alt="Sydney opera House Australia submarine" data-mce-source="Mark Baker/AP" data-mce-caption="The former Australian navy submarine HMAS Onslow is towed passed by the Sydney Opera House to a naval ship yard from the Maritime Museum in Sydney, Australia, on October 16, 2008." />Mark Baker/APThe former Australian navy submarine HMAS Onslow is towed passed by the Sydney Opera House to a naval ship yard from the Maritime Museum in Sydney, Australia, on October 16, 2008.</div></div></div>He says he wishes Johnson well as he continues his international journey. Johnson is en route to Hong Kong for his own Farfetch'd, after which he'll head to Sydney, which delivered such a beat-down to Pham.Still, Pham has two final thoughts on Pokémon Go and the urge to travel around the world to catch 'em all.First: "I would advise anyone thinking of doing this to contact me immediately. Me and your significant others will proceed to destroy your passport and hide your credit cards."And second: "I have no intention of resuming this or touching this god forsaken app for a VERY long time." <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/pokemon-go-releases-update-fixes-annoying-problems-2016-7">'Pokémon Go' just released an update that fixes its most annoying problems</a></h3> <div> <div> <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="NybDNwNDE6mv_K6iFX5pyXBmgtlRhHJD" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> <script> if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; } RunFunctions.push(function() { var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', 'NybDNwNDE6mv_K6iFX5pyXBmgtlRhHJD',{ autoplay: 'false' }); }); </script> <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div> </div> <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script> </div>

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