The Pokémon GO craze has taken over the world, and it’s lead to people to do some pretty crazy stuff in their quest to “catch ‘em all!”
That one guy who quit his job
When you want to be the very best like no one ever was, you can’t let something as insignificant as a job get in your way. Which is exactly what Tom Currie was thinking when he quit his job to focus on capturing all pokémon. Maybe somebody should have told him that all of them aren’t out in the wild yet.
The guys who fell off a cliff
Yep, two dudes literally walked off a cliff while playing the game. It’s like a scene pulled right out of those old cartoons we used to watch. The game actually warns you to mind your surroundings during the loading screen (which goes on for a while btw), guess they didn’t read.
A different kind of Lure
Some folks have found a lucrative use for Pokémon GO. Businesses are dropping lures, which are not only attracting the pokémon, but potential customers as well. Some are taking it a step further by offering discounts to those who catch pokémon inside their shop or even barring people from catching pokémon inside unless they make a purchase.
When laziness shines
You need to walk a certain distance with an incubating egg in order to hatch it. People don’t really like walking, or any kind of activity involving physical work for that matter. It’s no surprise that people have come up with ways to avoid this as well, from tying their phones to ceiling fans and strapping them onto to their dogs, to name a few.
Causing AND stopping crime?
While lures are great for attracting pokémon and even business, shadier folk have realised it’s a great way to attract unaware targets as well, for some easy swiping. At the other end of the spectrum, two marine veterans happened to apprehend a man wanted for murder while they were out playing the game.
When pokémon>wife in labour
If you had to choose between your wife giving birth to your kid and Pokémon GO, the choice is pretty obvious for most of us. But some would rather catch the wild Pidgey that showed up because, priorities, duh. No? Well that’s what Jonathan Theriot thought while he was taking the above screenshot while his wife was giving birth to their third daughter.