300 Pokemon Go Players Targeted By Robbers And Child Molesters In One Month

8-30-16 National:

In the past one month there have been cases of thieves and child molesters taking unfair advantage of Pokemon Go players who are out on the streets.

A Pokemon Go crimewave seems to have engulfed most of the developed world. Robbers, thieves and child abusers have increased their predatory behavior in regard to over 300 vulnerable gamers.

The past month saw this rise in the crime rate and it is a worrisome trend. The police are on high alert as more and more gamers complain about thefts and unwanted physicality shown by strangers.

The really sad part is where criminal minds that belong to pedophiles tend to make these Pokemon Go gamers their target. Over 300 offences have happened over the past 30 days or so, according to DailyMail.

The popular smartphone game may be a healthy phenomenon since it is very interesting and lends a dopamine rush. Also it allows gamers to go on long rambling walks in the Great Outdoors which is salubrious for burning off excess calories.

Yet the potential danger of being hoodwinked and shortchanged by the dregs of society remains.

The gamers are walking ducks for the criminal element in society that knows when it has spotted the naïve and innocent playing the game on their smartphones.

There were even thefts where the thieves had rigged the game to lure the victims into a secluded area. There they stole valuable stuff from the gamers.

The police was also summoned in Surrey when a minor spat escalated into a full-fledged fight between 30 individuals. The game was the root cause.

Young children who play the game enter areas which are a sort of no-man’s land. An incident of a man luring children into his home for indecent and perverted purposes has also been uncovered.

Pokemon Go was launched in July of this year in the UK. Cartoon creatures also called monsters are imbedded in the real environment inside the game’s virtual context.

The real goal is to find as many of them as is possible. This makes for an interesting scenario. The game is so addictive that people have been known to crash their cars into trees and walk off cliffs in the act of finding the virtual monsters.

The game now poses challenges to the law enforcement agencies since the series of accidents and crimes which have been perpetrated on the gamers are one too many.

Safety is the watchword for now. Players must take reality into view when they have their eyes glued to the screens of their smartphones. Otherwise dangerous mishaps could take place. ..Source.. by Sumayah Aamir, in News | Gaming