To call “Pokemon Go” popular would be a severe understatement.
But just because a rare and magical Growlithe has appeared near you, doesn’t mean you should pursue it ― particularly when pursuing it requires you to turn off the rational part of your brain.
Here are seven examples of people who didn’t listen to their voice of reason. Please learn from their mistakes:

“Playing the game is not appropriate in the museum, which is a memorial to the victims of Nazism,” museum spokesman Andrew Hollinger told The Washington Post in July 2016. “We are trying to find out if we can get the museum excluded from the game.”
Here's a copy of the $151 ticket- Yukon Police say #PokemonGO while driving nearly caused a head on crash @OKCFOX pic.twitter.com/M0fVkkLyes
— Tom George (@TheTomGeorge) July 12, 2016
@kairyssdal 9/11 memorial in NY too... pic.twitter.com/IGStx5YTPi
— Tim Farrell (@Tim_Farrell11) July 12, 2016
"To make this as a spot in a game, I think that’s wrong,” Mickey Kennedy, 61, a native New Yorker who visited the site, told Time. “A lot of people died here. It’s a place to reflect, not to play a game.”

"For those budding Pokemon Trainers out there using Pokemon Go," the station said in a release, "whilst the Darwin Police Station may feature as a Pokestop, please be advised that you don't actually have to step inside in order to gain the pokeballs."

We do not consider playing "Pokemon Go" to be appropriate decorum on the grounds of ANC. We ask all visitors to refrain from such activity.
— Arlington Cemetery (@ArlingtonNatl) July 12, 2016

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