Holocaust Museum Tells Idiots: Stop Playing ‘Pokémon Go’ Here

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By Andrew Stiles | 1:59 pm, July 12, 2016
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So many idiots have been playing ‘Pokémon Go‘ at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. that the museum had to issue a forceful statement imploring visitors to cut it out.

“We feel playing ‘Pokémon Go’ in a memorial dedicated to the victims of Nazism is inappropriate,” Andrew Hollinger, the museum’s communications director, told Yahoo News.

“We encourage visitors to use their phones to share and engage with museum content while here,” Hollinger said. “Technology can be an important learning tool, but this game falls outside of our educational and memorial mission. We are looking into how the museum can be removed from it.”

Pokémon Go is a dumb new smartphone game from Nintendo that encourages users to walk around various locations while starting at their phones in order to imprison cuddly creatures in a magic ball. The creatures are then forced to participate in head-to-head fights to the death with other creatures. The app is already more popular than Tinder and Snapchat.

The Holocaust museum isn’t the only controversial location where Pokémon Go can capture the creatures with their magic ball.

Indeed.

 

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