Reported.
The lure feature has resulted in multiple thefts. Even murders are something to be concerned about.
Are there any actual confirmed reports of people specifically targetting Pokemon GO players at Pokespot/Lure locations?
There have been a load of these type of reports since it got released and they all have turned out to be sensationalist/fear-mongering/Facebook Mum type articles that have no merit.
Although I would not be surprised if this eventually happens.
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In ingress, if you deploy a “fracker,” the equivalent paid boost item, a portal name is posted to the entire public feed and the portal itself appears to have fireworks and beams of light shooting from it. There has never been a single issue related to this.
I’m a massive skeptic and I expect this will turn up to be just like the “girl that fell off a bridge.” Untrue and designed solely to drive fear in the wake of this amazing, community-building application that tens of millions of people are enjoying.
Yes, it was reported on CNN and in USA Today, our national Newspaper. Link below…
The pictures showing up of the groups of people conversing on a certain area are wonderful. Nobody is caring what the person is or where they are coming from, they just know they like Pokemon and that’s enough.
I got stopped by 4 people walking in the city yesterday who were playing, and saw dozens of others around the shops and Pokespots.
It’s sad but there are always people who are going to use an otherwise positive medium for negative purposes. As much as I hope it doesn’t happen, I am just waiting for the day the game is involved in a child abduction.
Almost a dozen armed robberies in St Louis Missouri alone, police report.
Now that’s scary…
It’s kind of like saying Pokémon Go is somehow contributing to people shooting each other in Chicago.
Not really. It’s just a trash place to live and people shoot each other anyway. The game is just a current event they’re trying to demonize because they know there’s this sensationalist counter-craze, like with anything good, that they can draw views from.
This type of journalism is designed to make people who don’t understand the game afraid of new technology and interaction. I ain’t buyin what they’re sellin.
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Fortunately the hoods have, and will continue to be, arrested. Hopefully it won’t snowball into something that hurts the game cause bad publicity can be harmful. Then again, the story is getting bigger and the old saying “There’s no such thing as bad publicity” may apply.
I used to live in this town, Parkville,MD. There is a Baltimore county side, where I used to live - and a Baltimore city side - which is a terrible location. It seems like these attacks are happening in cities that are already crime-ridden though:
www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-co-pokemon-robbery-20160712-story.html
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