Pokémon Go players are pissing off visitors at sacred landmarks
  • 8 years ago
Pokémon Go -- the mobile game phenomena currently capturing the attention of people globally -- is sending players to landmarks like the 9/11 Memorial and the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. Players have subsequently angered locals “It’s disrespectful to the people who lost families. Playing a game is one thing, but they shouldn’t do it here," a 61-year-old Staten Island laborer told the New York Post The downtown Manhattan memorial is filled with “PokeStops” — landmarks highlighted by a floating blue cube that gives gamers free items to catch Pokemon