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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: Anitius Severinus Boethius

A coworker won over my husband.

He told hubby about his (chubby, moody) stepson. The kid wouldn’t get outside for anything. Attitude.

Last weekend the two of them walked more than 20k and the kid was begging to spend more time playing. They’re getting along. Total attitude change.


61 posted on 07/12/2016 2:09:16 PM PDT by Marie (The vulgarians are at the gate! MAGA!)
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To: proud American in Canada

Two of our local businesses are offering 20% off if you catch one in their stores.

Walmart is a hotspot and their business picked up wonderfully this weekend.


62 posted on 07/12/2016 2:10:55 PM PDT by Marie (The vulgarians are at the gate! MAGA!)
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To: ColdOne

you go to your camera on Pokenman go. Google locates the picture and if there is a pokeman there it shows up. Turns out there was one in my back yard.

Since pokemans are wild, I have no idea how it got there


63 posted on 07/12/2016 2:13:43 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (leading from behind is following)
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To: EEGator

unlimited data plans


64 posted on 07/12/2016 2:14:16 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (leading from behind is following)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

https://www.facebook.com/705516686211670/videos/995189010577768/

Funniest video this week! lol!


65 posted on 07/12/2016 2:30:39 PM PDT by Marie (The vulgarians are at the gate! MAGA!)
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To: Thibodeaux

Thank you for info.


66 posted on 07/12/2016 2:33:57 PM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Here’s a FB post from today:

All right. I’ve got a problem.

Today is Amazon Prime’s sale and I’m really not interested. We’ve already spent too much this month.

Then I see a $400 roomba on sale for $250.

First thought - “This would be great for hatching eggs!!”

Yes. I seriously considered buying a $250 machine just to hatch pokemon eggs.

I need a nap.

(So I can be well-rested to hunt pokemon tonight!!! Aaaaarugh!!)


67 posted on 07/12/2016 2:35:53 PM PDT by Marie (The vulgarians are at the gate! MAGA!)
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To: I want the USA back

OMG wouldnt that be funny to put pokemons over all the land mines in muzzie land?


68 posted on 07/12/2016 2:43:32 PM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

69 posted on 07/12/2016 2:47:13 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Holocaust Museum: Please stop playing Pokémon Go here
http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2016/07/holocaust_museum_please_stop_p.html#incart_river_home

Forest Grove police log: Pokémon Go player stabbed, keeps playing
http://www.oregonlive.com/forest-grove/index.ssf/2016/07/forest_grove_police_log_15.html#incart_river_home_pop

Police say Pokémon Go is no excuse for trespassing
http://www.oregonlive.com/trending/2016/07/police_say_pokemon_go_is_no_ex.html#incart_river_home


70 posted on 07/12/2016 2:57:43 PM PDT by Rio (Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
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To: MeanWestTexan

It’s an artificial reality. We need less of that.


71 posted on 07/12/2016 2:58:40 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Red Badger

Ever been in a Turkish prison?...


72 posted on 07/12/2016 2:58:56 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Salamander

You can contact Geocaching.com and ask them to remove caches in the cemetery. They take public opinion very seriously.


73 posted on 07/12/2016 2:59:35 PM PDT by Rio (Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
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To: IYAS9YAS

The ones playing here are outlanders, not locals.

If not for Geocaching, they’d never have found these remote cemeteries.

City people pay big money for “architectural elements” like those beautiful wrought iron works.

Whoever took them was careful to bring equipment enough to rip them out by the roots.

Not casual vandalism at all.

It’s heart breaking to see things that have stood unmolested for centuries, so savagely ripped from their place.

I know it’s not locals as we are all incredibly superstitious about disturbing the dead.


74 posted on 07/12/2016 3:03:29 PM PDT by Salamander (I Aim To Maim...)
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To: All

May be some privacy issues with people who log in to Pokemon Go via their Google accounts:
http://fortune.com/2016/07/12/pokemon-go-google/


75 posted on 07/12/2016 3:05:21 PM PDT by Drago
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To: Enlightened1

Couldn’t agree more.


76 posted on 07/12/2016 3:06:27 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: cyclotic

These are not conservative parents’ kids.

Different values.

:(


77 posted on 07/12/2016 3:08:17 PM PDT by Salamander (I Aim To Maim...)
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To: Mr. K

How many Pokemons will there be at the Day of Rage rallies??


78 posted on 07/12/2016 3:08:55 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: Rio

I did, right after I saw the McCormick family plot had been destroyed.

They told me, in so many words, to eff off.

The parish who maintains the cemetery got no further than I did.

Sooner or later, they’ll run into some hillbilly descendants, out drinking and hunting.


79 posted on 07/12/2016 3:12:38 PM PDT by Salamander (I Aim To Maim...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We had some goober show up in our office today and complain because they couldn’t get up to the 3rd floor to get some Pokemon thing.


80 posted on 07/12/2016 3:16:21 PM PDT by IamConservative (Hillary walks while 100's of teens get prosecuted for mishandling Miley Cyrus MP3's..)
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