If you want proof that the world is a weird and wonderful place you need only look at the Pokemon Go phenomenon.

We’ve shown you a few epic gatherings before, including one on Sea Point promenade (HERE), but that’s just the beginning.

Perhaps the whole thing is best summed up by the fact that people were so into the game that they didn’t notice Justin Bieber (HERE), which is when you know you’re dealing with a game changer.

Well all that pales when compared to the madness over in the Taiwanese city of Taipei, with TIME having this to say:

[It] looks like the city’s Xinbeitou district with the urgency and intensity one usually expects of marathons or attempts to escape alien invasions or terrorist attacks. There was a Snorlax waiting for them, it is alleged, and so they took off en masse…

the Xinbeitou area has become a daily focus for “thousands” of players looking to catch the particularly exotic Pokémon that appear to populate the surrounding streets. Overcrowding is so intense, reports say, that the civil-defense brigade has had to be called in, along with police reinforcements from neighboring [sic] areas.

Honestly now, just look at this mess:

Society man, society.

[source:time]