The Official WTF Thread

[New Pagodi]

Pokémon Go player finds body while searching for Pokémon

[New Pagodi]

4 suspects conducted armed robberies using Pokemon-Go, police say

[pioneer98]

China rebrands Karl Marx with hit rap song in a bid to sell Marxism to youngsters

[New Pagodi]

Faroe Islands fit cameras to sheep to create Google Street View

[New Pagodi]

US government plans to use drones to fire vaccine-laced M&Ms near endangered ferrets

[lukethedrifter]

Faroe Islands fit cameras to sheep to create Google Street View

She belongs in the babes thread.

[stlouie_lipp]

It is a shame that this statement even has to be made. WTF is wrong with people?

Officials at the Holocaust Museum and Poland's Auschwitz Memorial are calling on Pokémon Go maker Niantic to take their sites off the locations where players can hunt cartoon creatures in the popular augmented reality app, saying it dishonors Holocaust victims.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news ... /86991810/

[Joe Shlabotnik]

It is a shame that this statement even has to be made. WTF is wrong with people?

Officials at the Holocaust Museum and Poland's Auschwitz Memorial are calling on Pokémon Go maker Niantic to take their sites off the locations where players can hunt cartoon creatures in the popular augmented reality app, saying it dishonors Holocaust victims.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news ... /86991810/

Let's see how long it takes them to fix this. It's quickly gone incredibly viral. It could be they just didn't even think about the need for a filter like this.

[wart57]

It is a shame that this statement even has to be made. WTF is wrong with people?

Officials at the Holocaust Museum and Poland's Auschwitz Memorial are calling on Pokémon Go maker Niantic to take their sites off the locations where players can hunt cartoon creatures in the popular augmented reality app, saying it dishonors Holocaust victims.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news ... /86991810/

Let's see how long it takes them to fix this. It's quickly gone incredibly viral. It could be they just didn't even think about the need for a filter like this.

They had a story on the local news Pokemon Go and the problems it is causing around the Phx Metro, and while the reporter was talking, a chick behind her, head buried in her phone, was nearly taken out by a skateboarder. They were showing video of people walking around in circles all over the ASU campus oblivious to the world around them, trying to catch Pokemon.

[ghostrunner]

I would like to see what the developer's response is. I'd hope they allow places to opt out of being used as a location in the game.