My husband was grocery shopping today and witnessed this incident, and it made me concerned.
An adult man was walking around the store trying to catch Pokemon, and he saw a kid who was doing the same. As he had just caught a really good Pokemon in the parking lot, he asked the kid if he could show him where it was. The kid agreed, and followed this stranger out of the store.
The adult realized that he had essentially just lured a kid away from his parents in a public place, and immediately told the kid to go back inside to his parents.
This guy clearly had no bad intentions toward the kid, but how easily could someone have done the same thing intentionally in order to abduct or harm a child? After all, people have already used Pokemon Go to commit armed robbery.
So I want to warn both adult (over 18) Pokemon Go players and parents of children who play the game.
Parents: If possible, go with your children when they go out to play the game. If that isn’t possible, be sure to have a conversation with them about strangers, even strangers who are playing the same game. It might be appropriate to point out the real cases of crimes committed using Pokemon Go so the kid understands that the threat is real.
Adult Pokemon Go players: Remember that minors are still minors, even if you’re both playing the same game. Don’t ask minors to follow you or join you in hunting Pokemon. Don’t meet up with minors for Pokemon hunting without parental consent.
You may have no bad intentions, but that might not stop you from being accused of something you didn’t do or try to do. False accusations could ruin your life. Plus, you don’t want to encourage minors to trust adults just because they’re playing the same game, because the next adult might not have such good intentions.
Reblogging because holy shit
I’m really curious to see what everyone is!
Scorpio, Slytherin, Mystic.
Scorpio, slytherin, mystic as well
Hufflepuff instinct yo
@thewinterwulfSO THIS GIF FROZE AND
now imagine him running at full speed down a dark hallway towards you, looking like that.
lOOK WHAT I MADE
#you’re walking through the ghost zone #there’s no one around because they’re all dead #out of the corner of your eye you spot him #(danny phantom) #he’s following you about thirty feet back #he says ‘going ghost’ and breaks into a squat #HE’S GAINING ON YOU #(DANNY PHANTOM)
I FOUND IT
I CANNOT BELIEVE
OH MY G OD
Incredible
0-100 at light speed
he got distracted by his own insurance tragedy but quickly got himself back on the path to romance
So after seeing that great news cast I said to my self “There HAS to be better models on like turbo squid or something, right?” I go over and look up Pokemon. Sure enough I find our boys. Not only that they were cheapest ones you can buy while still slightly resembling the original fellas.
The best part is that the models that look significantly better are only slightly more expensive but CBS said “FUCK THAT! WE DON’T HAVE THAT KIND OF SCRATCH!”
