6 Ways Pokemon Go Is Already Ruining Lives – With millions of Pokemon Go fans out searching to catch em all, accidents are going to happen! Criminals are also evolving cleaver and rare tricks in making hunting trainers into the hunted.
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Today we’ll be talking about the 6 ways Pokemon Go is already ruining lives.
Pokemon Go is a brand new mobile app, where players have to traverse the real world in search of Pokemon to catch. But sometimes, the real world can be dangerous, as these guys found out…
Number 6:
Despite the fact that the games only in its infancy, there has already been accidents. Two men in San Diego, California have fallen off a cliff in their pursuit of a Pokemon.
San Diego Lifeguards reported that somebody had fallen off a cliff at E Street around 1:13pm last week. When the fire department had arrived, they found a man around 80-90 feet down the cliff, on the beach.
They also found a second man, unconscious, around 50 feet down. Both men were taken to the hospital, and the extent of their injuries is still unknown.
So be careful when you’re pokemon-ing, guys!
Number 5:
Criminals in Missouri have used Pokemon Go to lure unsuspecting players in to their trap. The criminals added “lure modules” to Pokestops in remote locations, and waited for players to come running.
However, when the players arrived, the thieves didn’t want to battle, but instead robbed them at gunpoint. I know this story may seem a little farfetch’d, but it’s all true and there have actually been 11 incidents like this over the course of a few days since the launch of the game. Eventually the criminals in Missouri were captured, and charged with first-degree armed robbery.
Number 4:
First, a little back story. The developers of the game, Niantic, previously made a game similar to Pokemon Go called Ingress. In this game, players were encouraged to visit and claim local landmarks, just like a big game of Call of Duty Domination. Niantic reused some of the landmarks from this app, and put them in Pokemon Go as gyms and Pokestops.
Now, as Ingress was made a few years ago, some of these landmarks have changed.
Fast-forward to today, and Pokemon Go, and you’ve got players sneaking in to offices and police stations to try and get themselves a Pikachu.
Boon Sheridan is a man that resides in Massachusetts and in 2015 he bought an old church and converted it into a home. The church was previously an Ingress portal, but is now a Gym in Pokemon Go. Sheridan reported to Buzzfeed that he’s lost count of the number of players who have shown up to his doorstep at all hours of the day and night.
Number 3:
And talking about places, because sometimes when you’re hunting Pokemon, you’ll go anywhere just to get that Squirtle or Charmander. But when you’re staring down at your phone and walking blindly, you might end up in a place you didn’t want to be – as everyone who’s walked in to a lamppost knows.
That was the case with the Auschwitz museum. Players have been visiting the camp with the hopes of catching their favourite Pokemon, but have been met with angry security guards and staff at the museum.
So now, The Auschwitz museum has naturally asked Nintendo to remove any Pokemon from the area.
Number 2:
In Wyoming, a young trainer got more than she bargained for when she went searching for a Pokemon down by a river.
Focused on her phone and searching for Pokemon that might be hidden nearby, it wasn’t until she paused to look up that she noticed a dead body just in front of her feet.
When she realised what she was seeing, she immediately called the police.
After the autopsy, the police ruled that the man’s death was accidental, but hey, who knows, maybe he was playing Pokemon as well.
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