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10 Weird Happenings Thanks To Pokemon Go

Finding a Meowth under your desk is tame compared to these incidents

By Pamela Chow; Featured image: NickMastodon / Twitter

The lot of us haven't so much as laid eyes on the Pokemon Go app icon yet, and already we're inundated with news and weird happenings that occurred thanks to the viral mobile game.

If you don't want to read through all the articles about Pokemon Go but are still somehow curious about what strange things could happen, here are 10 that already have.

Take these incidents as cautionary tales for when Pokemon Go finally launches in Singapore. Whenever that might be.

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6. Real world dangers

It’s great that Pokemon Go is getting people off their couches and computer chairs, but users should take caution from this robbery case where people were being targeted – because they were distracted by the game.

Police in Missouri, USA, arrested four men who reportedly used the game to find players at PokeStops, and robbed them using a handgun. About eight or nine people were robbed over several days, reported Gizmodo.

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