That's a pretty convenient excuse to the police when you're out trolling for hookers, "I was just trying to catch Bulbasaur!"
Since we're linking simpsons clips... He's gonna be playing some pokey man, all right. Just not the legal sort.
Ingress, one of the more well known AR app games, has an issue called Cargressing. This is where you stay in your car instead of walking to the locations. If Pokemon Go becomes a big deal I hope there will be some way of reducing the amount of playing while behind the wheel. There is a huge incentive to be mobile while playing Ingress and I can only assume the same applies to Pokemon Go. Get ready to hear stories about car accidents related to this game in the coming months, if not already.
Pokémon Go used by armed robbers to lure players into trap Armed robbers used the game Pokémon Go to lure victims to an isolated trap in Missouri, police reported on Sunday. At about 2am in O’Fallon, Missouri, officers responded to a robbery report that led them to four people, all local residents aged 16 to 18, in a black BMW in a CVS parking lot. The occupants tried to discard a handgun out of the car when an officer approached, said Sgt Bill Stringer. The officer then identified the four people as suspects of similar armed robberies described in St Louis and St Charles counties. The adult suspects were charged with first degree robbery, a felony, and had bond set at $100,000 cash, Stringer said. Stringer added that police believe the suspects used the phone app, which directs users to capture imaginary creatures superimposed onto the real world, to tempt players into secluded areas where they could be easily robbed. At a certain level in the game, he noted, players can congregate at local landmarks to join teams and battle. “Using the geolocation feature,” Stringer said, “the robbers were able to anticipate the location and level of seclusion of unwitting victims.” https://www.theguardian.com/technol...bbers-dead-body?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Facebook
Jesus the game hasn't even been out that long and criminals have figured out ways of exploiting it. Next it will be rape.
'Pokémon GO' Is About To Surpass Twitter In Daily Active Users http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonev...s-twitter-in-daily-active-users/#756d91e51745
This app is crazy! I had about 20 kids this weekend stop at the corner of my street in front of my house playing that game. When walking the dogs with my son who has the game, we saw about 15 kids tracking stuff down. I downloaded it to see what the hype is (and something to chat with my son about) and tried playing it, but have no clue what I'm doing. My son and some friends are gonna hop on their bikes today and cruise the neighborhood catching stuff, which is great because it gets his ass off the Xbox. The format of the game is very cool. I'm hoping there will be a more grown up version of this type of game soon.
