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What do you get when you mix a Pokémon Go hot spot, a sailing club and a city park?

A busted Wi-Fi network and nearly $11,880 in parking tickets, apparently.

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At least that was the case last weekend, when Ottawa bylaw officers descended on Dick Bell Park off Carling Avenue and handed out 264 parking tickets during a three-day blitz. One hundred and thirty-four tickets were handed out on the Monday alone.

The ticketing at the park, which juts out into the Ottawa River, comes as it’s been discovered as a great spot to catch Pokémon.

Since the release of the online game, which involves players using their mobile devices to try to find and catch the online creatures, an estimated 200 to 300 players are flocking to the lighthouse on the point across from the Nepean Sailing Club nightly.

The result is often parking chaos, as cars are left on the lawn or lining the roadways once the designated parking spots are filled. Drivers are also leaving their cars in the lot after the park’s 11 p.m. closing, another no-no, according to the city’s bylaw department.