July 26, 2016 11:24 AM

COEYMANS, N.Y. (AP) - Authorities say a 62-year-old man had to be rescued after he became stuck in waist-deep mud while playing Pokemon Go at night in the woods behind his upstate New York home.

Police say the man was playing the virtual creature-hunting game on his cellphone around 2 a.m. Sunday when he wandered into thick woods behind his home in Coeymans just south of Albany.