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Pokémon Go Players Do the Craziest Things
Lifezette ^ | 26 July 2016 | Ann Oldenburg

Posted on 07/26/2016 3:17:02 PM PDT by Fractal Trader

Pokémon Go mania has turned a corner — it has reached the point of ridiculousness. The game is making people do nutty, dangerous, and even life-threatening things.

The “augmented reality mobile game” is sending players all over the place as they try to catch the crazy creatures. These people might be in a park or on private property — in a church or in your bathroom.

The stories are getting more outrageous and outlandish. The upside of the game is that it’s getting people moving. They are actually walking around outside. They are running. They are breathing fresh air (except when it’s like a sauna outside). The downside is that the quests to catch Pokémon have been linked to all sorts of mishaps, from criminal incidents to car crashes.

Two recent examples: An Auburn, New York, man was playing the game while driving and ran into a tree. And a Cincinnati woman admitted to climbing the fence at Paul Brown Stadium, home of the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals, to catch Pokémon last week. She was arrested and charged with criminal trespassing.

The stories are getting more outrageous and outlandish by the day.

Here are some more of the recent ones:

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To: piytar

BTW I consider taking money off stupid people to be a moral obligation!


21 posted on 07/26/2016 3:45:35 PM PDT by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: Fractal Trader

How about a Muzzie Go where instead of catching Pokemon you kill terrorists?


22 posted on 07/26/2016 3:49:39 PM PDT by Lee Enfield (I identify as rich, cut me a check.)
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To: piytar

Revise stupid to “moronic ignorant obsessed with stupid things people”...

Truly stupid people can’t help it. In fact, they should be helped if possible. The world must be baffling to them.

Ignorant people choose to be ignorant. No problem taking cash from them!


23 posted on 07/26/2016 3:50:13 PM PDT by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: TalonDJ

Didn’t look like they ever had any intention to stop their Poke’ hunting to me. They didn’t even seem like they were enjoying each others’ company they were so fixated on their phones.

Oh well, this fad will give way to another more harmful one soon enough I guess.


24 posted on 07/26/2016 3:51:24 PM PDT by Bullish (That establishment heads from both sides are exploding over Trump is the very best part.)
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To: dhs12345

Don’t confuse daring with retarded.


25 posted on 07/26/2016 3:57:23 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: piytar

“Free money”

Opportunity cost...


26 posted on 07/26/2016 3:58:54 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: TalonDJ

Someone has already tried just outside of the base.

http://fraghero.com/we-went-to-area-51-to-play-pokemon-go-and-you-wont-believe-what-we-found/


27 posted on 07/26/2016 4:04:11 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Bullish

Post # 24 ~ Oh well, this fad will give way to another more harmful one soon enough I guess. ~

That precisely is the problem I have with these knuckleheads. ‘Fad’s or ‘Trend’s, or whatever you may call it - will attract vacuous souls so self-absorbed and so shallow, they can do nothing else; but reflexively jump on the latest bandwagon ~ regardless of how stupid it may be.

I sometimes pity the digital generation, but I still do have great optimism in their future.


28 posted on 07/26/2016 4:05:16 PM PDT by heterosupremacist ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

‘Just outside’ that base? There are about 10 thousand square miles of desert that could be called ‘just outside’ that area.


29 posted on 07/26/2016 4:11:16 PM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: TalonDJ

Riding a bike is real. Catching pikachu is not real, but since it takes place in the real world it has real consequences. If a bunch of Pokemon ran off a cliff would you follow them? That is just one question this social experiment seeks to answer.
The lines are definitely being blurred.


30 posted on 07/26/2016 4:17:16 PM PDT by Dirt for sale (QS)
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To: Fractal Trader

I’ve watched crime plummet throughout my city due to the vast numbers of families out playing this game. Every day, people do stupid things. By comparison, the only significance to these idiots vs other idiots is that it ties into the storyline that Pokemon Go is dangerous and bad, bringing people out of their homes, finally.

I’ve participated in National Nights Out, watched our local police and fire departments set up elaborate evenings, free BBQ, and maybe bring out a dozen families (most of them their own.)

Last night, I saw over a hundred families tromping up and down my town’s little downtown section, little kids cooing over a character they wanted, the groans from yet another pidgey showing up.


31 posted on 07/26/2016 4:26:46 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Fractal Trader
"Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings requested this week that Pokémon Go developers stop having Pokémon appearing in and around areas affected by the nuclear reactor meltdown in Fukushima — to stop players from entering dangerous areas."

But that's the ONLY place you can get the infamous Fukipika!


32 posted on 07/26/2016 4:29:07 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: EEGator

Fair enough.


33 posted on 07/26/2016 4:34:36 PM PDT by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: Fractal Trader

It is just a way to help big brother gather intel.

Mind control.

Fools.


34 posted on 07/26/2016 4:46:37 PM PDT by disndat
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To: Fractal Trader

I get up at 3:45, am in our local park to walk and exercise by 4:30 when the lights come on. Last week, a ladie in a nightgown, and a man in evening dress, still out for the night before, we’re trying to catch a rare Pokemon. They thought I was there because I was one of them.

..

God help us. We are doomed.


35 posted on 07/26/2016 5:36:07 PM PDT by ImaGraftedBranch (by reading this, you have collapsed my wave function. Thanks, pal.)
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To: Fractal Trader
Blaming a video game for idiots who do stupid things while playing it is no different than blaming guns for the evil things some idiots do with them. It's all about the moron misusing the thing - not the thing itself. Spoons do not make you fat.

This Pokemon-GO-is-evil meme is ridiculous. Morons will be morons. If they weren't being morons with this game, they'd be doing it with something else.

On the positive side, I've recently seen lots of groups of young teens actually walking around outdoors (with their phones), particularly in parks and such where the imaginary GPS creatures are often found, causing no trouble whatsoever. Sure beats sitting around the house in front of the TV or computer, or engaging in general mayhem, vandalism or other traditional obnoxiousness-bred-from-boredom teen behavior instead.

36 posted on 07/26/2016 7:13:39 PM PDT by MCH
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To: Darnright

They tend to be the clean cut nerdy type who play pokeman go who probably played the card game as kids.


37 posted on 07/26/2016 7:17:49 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Darnright
I saw my first herd of 15-something boys this afternoon. They were very clean cut young fellows.

Yep, millenial basement vg guys coming out into the sun! I see families playing it, in parks and local cities, seeing parts of their communities they never saw before, learning history and discovering places of interest. A truly new gaming paradigm.

38 posted on 07/27/2016 5:48:36 AM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough)
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To: TalonDJ; tx_eggman
‘looking for pokemon’ could be a new euphemism.

like STDs. Gotta catch 'em all!
39 posted on 07/27/2016 6:46:59 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (Winter is coming)
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To: Dirt for sale

It would be pretty easy to argue that if you ride a bike in a big circle, right back to where you started, that you have accomplished less than by ‘capturing’ some bunch of electrons. Some people highly value the warm fuzzy feeling they get by knowing they rode their bike... nowhere. But hey, they feel like they accomplished something. Same with the Pokémon catchers. They feel like they accomplished something but someone else could argue they wasted their time. Everyone wants to feel like they accomplished something. Some think mocking others on the internet is accomplishing something. Some even thing that is more than catching some electrons. Others might disagree.


40 posted on 07/27/2016 10:23:45 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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