Another GPS-based augmented reality game from Niantic using many of the same portals and locations used in Ingress.
People are getting robbed and finding dead bodies while playing Pokemon Go
http://www.recode.net/2016/7/11/12142366/pokemon-go-robbed-dead-body-crazy-stories
It’s all fun and games until somebody gets robbed. Or finds a dead body. Or has their home turned into a Pokestop.
It feels as though everyone and their mother is playing the new smartphone game Pokemon Go, which requires users to actually venture off their couch and into the real world to find, capture and train their fictitious Pokemon characters.
The concept is kinda cool, which is why kids and adults seem obsessed with it, and why it’s been the No. 1 app in the App Store since its launch on Thursday and is currently No. 1 in the Google Play store, too.
But a bunch of smartphone-wielding youngsters walking around the streets looking for Pokemon hasn’t been entirely without incident. The game isn’t even a week old and already some crazy stuff has happened to its roaming horde of Pokemon trainers.
In Missouri (and probably other places), people are getting robbed while playing the game. On Sunday morning, Missouri’s O’Fallon Police Department posted a warning on Facebook that thieves were targeting Pokestops — real-world locations that users visit to accomplish tasks within the augmented-reality game.
“Apparently they were using the app to locate ppl standing around in the middle of a parking lot or whatever other location they were in,” the post reads.
One of those Pokestops, not in Missouri, was apparently some guy’s home. On Sunday, a Twitter user by the name of Boon Sheridan tweeted that his house, an old church, was labeled as a Pokemon Gym inside the app. Cars and strangers were loitering outside his property all day.
“I’ve officially stopped counting after easily 30+ people walking up and as many cars pulling up for a few minutes,” Sheridan tweeted as part of a fascinating tweet thread.
An Australian police station was also listed as a Pokestop and had to remind users on Facebook that they didn’t actually need to come inside the station to play the game.
Other users on the hunt for Pokemon have had ... err ... interesting days. A 19-year-old woman found a dead body floating in a river near her home in Wyoming while looking for Pokemon.
People are getting robbed and finding dead bodies while playing Pokemon Go
http://www.recode.net/2016/7/11/12142366/pokemon-go-robbed-dead-body-crazy-stories
It’s all fun and games until somebody gets robbed. Or finds a dead body. Or has their home turned into a Pokestop.
It feels as though everyone and their mother is playing the new smartphone game Pokemon Go, which requires users to actually venture off their couch and into the real world to find, capture and train their fictitious Pokemon characters.
The concept is kinda cool, which is why kids and adults seem obsessed with it, and why it’s been the No. 1 app in the App Store since its launch on Thursday and is currently No. 1 in the Google Play store, too.
But a bunch of smartphone-wielding youngsters walking around the streets looking for Pokemon hasn’t been entirely without incident. The game isn’t even a week old and already some crazy stuff has happened to its roaming horde of Pokemon trainers.
In Missouri (and probably other places), people are getting robbed while playing the game. On Sunday morning, Missouri’s O’Fallon Police Department posted a warning on Facebook that thieves were targeting Pokestops — real-world locations that users visit to accomplish tasks within the augmented-reality game.
“Apparently they were using the app to locate ppl standing around in the middle of a parking lot or whatever other location they were in,” the post reads.
One of those Pokestops, not in Missouri, was apparently some guy’s home. On Sunday, a Twitter user by the name of Boon Sheridan tweeted that his house, an old church, was labeled as a Pokemon Gym inside the app. Cars and strangers were loitering outside his property all day.
“I’ve officially stopped counting after easily 30+ people walking up and as many cars pulling up for a few minutes,” Sheridan tweeted as part of a fascinating tweet thread.
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An Australian police station was also listed as a Pokestop and had to remind users on Facebook that they didn’t actually need to come inside the station to play the game.
Other users on the hunt for Pokemon have had ... err ... interesting days. A 19-year-old woman found a dead body floating in a river near her home in Wyoming while looking for Pokemon.
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