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Pokémon Go players are angering visitors at sacred landmarks
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Posted on 07/12/2016 12:12:27 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Pokémon Go is luring players to landmarks like the 9/11 Memorial and the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC — sparking outrage from people who think it’s insensitive.

The downtown Manhattan memorial is filled with “PokeStops” — landmarks highlighted by a floating blue cube that gives gamers free items to catch Pokemon — including both reflecting pools, the “This City’s Bravest” plaque and the Survivor Tree.

Modal Trigger A Koffing Pokemon is visible at the National 9/11 Memorial South Pool in New York on July 12, 2016.Photo: Chad Rachman/New York Post “It’s disrespectful to the people who lost families. Playing a game is one thing, but they shouldn’t do it here. This is like a sacred place,” said a 61-year-old Staten Island laborer who helped clean up Ground Zero.

Koffing, a levitating purple monster with a skull and crossbones on its belly, appeared next to the reflecting pool at the memorial Tuesday — right next to the thousands of names of first responders who lost their lives in the Twin Tower bombings.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: landmarks; nintendo; pokeman; pokemon; pokemongo
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Pokemon app causing concern for local police

People playing this game are stupid in my opinion, because they could be lured into a very dangerous situation.

21 posted on 07/12/2016 12:37:58 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: cyclotic

Geocachers have destroyed 18th century remote and rural cemeteries in my area, and in some cases, have damaged or stolen irreplaceable wrought iron fencing around family plots.

Head stones, some literally only pieces of field stone with names scratched into them, have been damaged and moved.

Personally, it enrages me that idiots playing “games” are stomping all over my dead kinfolk for “fun”.


22 posted on 07/12/2016 12:39:22 PM PDT by Salamander (I Aim To Maim...)
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To: dfwgator

Or sexual predators.


23 posted on 07/12/2016 12:40:03 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
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To: BuffaloJack
Yesterday, I had to block her data access, because in just 10 days, she blew through all but 0.078GB of our family’s monthly 4GB shared data allotment.

Was she downloading other things? I only ask, because my wife has it on her phone, and lets my daughter play. Granted, she's only played about an hour's worth or so of time, but the total data usage for my wife's phone is only about 1% of the total allotment. We don't do in-game purchases, and don't do updates, or downloads unless we're on Wi-Fi at home.

24 posted on 07/12/2016 12:40:59 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Warning: This post has little to do with reality, and nothing to do with polite society.)
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To: EEGator

I don’t have it on my phone and have no interest in it (just never got into Pokémon anyway), but many of my friends are very happy that their kids are begging them to go on long walks through their neighborhood to try and find rare Pokémon for the game.


25 posted on 07/12/2016 12:41:13 PM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Sign up for my new release e-mail and get my first novel for free)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Craigslist thugs go high tech.

Gotta admit, it gives them much faster “results” than running an ad for an iPad.


26 posted on 07/12/2016 12:41:41 PM PDT by Salamander (I Aim To Maim...)
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To: EEGator

Why can’t they just go buy a Hula Hoop ?


27 posted on 07/12/2016 12:42:16 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Not expensive enough.


28 posted on 07/12/2016 12:45:01 PM PDT by proust (Trump/Sessions 2016!)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

“A lot of parents are playing with their kids. Gives them something to do together.”

We have baseball for that!


29 posted on 07/12/2016 12:47:45 PM PDT by 22202NOVA (Baseball: it's all about the fun. Duh. Mentals.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Throw rocks, climb trees, swim in a lake/reservoir, capture different bees/wasps and have gladiator matches...


30 posted on 07/12/2016 12:49:38 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: 22202NOVA

I prefer a nice game of “Nukem”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmSSVt7Mfkk


31 posted on 07/12/2016 12:50:22 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Salamander

That’s sad. I geocache a little bit and am always very careful when moving through the woods.

The initial idea was to be pretty circumspect. We set a cache in a park behind out house and it was pretty funny to see the geocachers come by, all nonchalant and stuff. It was a corner of the park and rarely used by anyone but cachers so we knew them instantly.

It’s sad to hear that the Tread Lightly ethic has disappeared.


32 posted on 07/12/2016 12:50:36 PM PDT by cyclotic
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To: dfwgator

Yes. Someone out there has all of the data saying where you go, when, how often, etc.

Ironically people are giving this up willingly. Niantic could also turn around and sell the data of users as ‘anonymous data’, thus doubling up on their profits.

My workplace has actually made it a ‘forbidden’ to use app while at or near the building.


33 posted on 07/12/2016 12:52:27 PM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: dfwgator

Same type idea, but Geocaching has real objects. Pokemon Go is just pictures on your phone when you are near the place where they ‘hide’.................


34 posted on 07/12/2016 12:52:46 PM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: dfwgator

‘Basically Pokemon Go, is Geocaching, right?’

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It is.

And I think some businesses could attract foot traffic if they install one of those lures. I think you can buy them (?).


35 posted on 07/12/2016 12:52:57 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (God bless the United States of America)
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To: Salamander
Geocachers have destroyed 18th century remote and rural cemeteries in my area, and in some cases, have damaged or stolen irreplaceable wrought iron fencing around family plots.

I used to geocache, then life got in the way. My wife and I, and all those we knew who geocached, were always respectful of private property, and would never have damaged anything, taken something (other than the take something/leave something in some of the caches).

Some folks are simply disrespectful, but it's certainly not the entire group being so. I've often wondered if some folks find these things and ruin them just do it to piss others off, regardless of the medium.

36 posted on 07/12/2016 12:53:26 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Warning: This post has little to do with reality, and nothing to do with polite society.)
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To: dfwgator

There have been a few robberies of gamers unsuspecting.................


37 posted on 07/12/2016 12:53:31 PM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: tbw2

‘Use it as an educational opportunity - if you come in, we get to lecture you on the events behind the memorial.
If enough of the game players hate it, the game will change the character locations’

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As for your first thought, great idea!

And as for your second, yes, I agree ... Nintendo will respond to customers.


38 posted on 07/12/2016 12:54:20 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (God bless the United States of America)
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To: EEGator

My two neighbor girls were searching in my yard. I introduced them to a remarkable item that provided entertainment during my youth. Once you opened it, I told them, you could see words which formed sentences. The sentences became paragraphs through which a lovely story unfolds.

They smiled. I love my neighbor girls!

The book is Judy. A true story of a dog during world war 2.


39 posted on 07/12/2016 12:54:31 PM PDT by karatemom
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To: EEGator

40 posted on 07/12/2016 12:55:00 PM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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