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INTEREST: Businesses Welcome Pokémon Go; Memorials Request Removal From Game

there's a church in my town that threatened to call the police on anyone playing pokemon go there. The property has 2 pokestops and a statue right outside the church itself is a gym. One of the pokestops and the gym are unfortunately too far away from the road to get to without walking well onto the property :/ .

http://www.wfsb.com/story/32431334/newington-church-asking-pokmon-go-players-to-stay-away

That is what I find really dumb about the game. It seems poorly thought through where POIs for the game would be, and largely just seems randomness and luck.

Well I heard the game was released ahead of schedule because some big wig gave an exact release date at a press conference without clearing it with the programmers. Looks like they've got weeks of backtracking ahead of them.

Fairvilla's Sexy Things, a Florida "intimacy boutique" was baffled at the influx of players to their location, but attributed at least one $60 underwear sale to the game.

To maybe help chill things out, last night someone was there handing out drinks and sausage sandwiches (Australians love some sausage-in-bread), while Sydney’s Pokémon Go Facebook group is doing a good job of policing some of the fallout.

I wholeheartedly agree that the Holocaust Museum is not a place for Pokemon Go. People should really have some respect and know not to go there, but, America, so. Hopefully it will be removed from the game soon. I feel bad for the people who monitor the gym and have to see these people disrespect the area.

This sounds fake, or like a really ignorant player. That's not how the game works at all. The game gives you a very generous radius to grab Pokemon and such. If I stood in my backyard, I could almost reach the houses across my street and the houses across the street from the house behind me (2 full streets, basically). There's absolutely no reason for anyone to need to go into any buildings except large ones like Malls or big Churches.

Secondly, you can disable AR. But even with AR on, as soon as you're in the large range I mentioned, you click the Pokemon and they will spawn within feet of you. You might have to spin around a bit, but you generally dont need to move at all from that position. So it being "on your keyboard" is a BS excuse. At worst he could've just disabled AR and it would've remained on his screen at all times, even if he drove hundreds of feet away (I play with AR off while in shotgun seat...I grab pokemon while on-the-move all the time).

I suspect it's kids and adults who move their hands dramatically or start raising their voices going '' yes! Caught it! Dammit just one more shake!'' Etc.

While there are legitimate complaints about people playing Pokémon in inappropriate locations or in inappropriate ways, so many of these complaints just sound like the tired old complaints brought out every time new fad comes along. "Darn kids with their iPhones and their pocky-mans, they should be involved in a proper fad, like hula-hooping or yoyoing, like they did back in my day."

Sure, it can be a public nuisance, but if people will act like in this case I don't see any reason to prevent them from being on the premise, as long as it is a public one, that it.)

People should get over it. If the stop is there, people are going to go there.