Most interesting way to abuse Pokemon Go

[Elok]

So, from what I gather, there is a new "augmented reality" game where you can expend physical calories running about catching magical vermin on your cell phone instead of sitting on your arse letting a bunch of pixels do the work. For some reason, this is wildly exciting to some people. I don't get it, but then I never really got geocaching either. The important thing is, this game is hella popular, and it is evident that in any given part of the country you could get at least a dozen people to step directly in front of a speeding semi by putting Mewtwo there, or some such.

This is potentially a very powerful technology--basically it makes low-grade botnets of people with an unhealthy appetite for Japanese bloodsport cartoons--and we can all imagine childish and/or dickish exploits such as dropping three hundred ultra-rare critters on the field in the middle of the Superbowl. And, yes, this company could make a lot more cash by simply letting businesses pay to have virtual bulbasaurs planted in their parking lots. But this must be just the tip of the iceberg. What else could you do with this, if you had the means of controlling where crap went in-game?

[loinburger]

Maybe you could trick people into doing actual work in order to get their pokemon, like put a bunch of them underground where you need a ditch dug

[The Mad Monk]

You could lure people to a very out-of-the-way spot and rob/rape/eat them as they approach.

[Uncle Sparky]

Hack GPS tracking bands on bears and mountain lions turning them into Pokémon.

[Aeson]

You could post about catching lots of rare Pokemon and make your Facebook friends jealous or block you ...

[Kidlicious]

Maybe you could trick people into doing actual work in order to get their pokemon, like put a bunch of them underground where you need a ditch dug

You should be an economist. This idea has actual potential.

[Kidlicious]

How many have been hit by semitrucks looking for Pokemon so far?

[Dauphin]

You could lure people to a very out-of-the-way spot and rob/rape/eat them as they approach.

A prediction or a reference to the fact it's already happened? (The rob bit anyway, was in the news)

[Dauphin]

Maybe you could trick people into doing actual work in order to get their pokemon, like put a bunch of them underground where you need a ditch dug

Mafia.

[The Mad Monk]

A prediction or a reference to the fact it's already happened? (The rob bit anyway, was in the news)

Yes.

[BlackCat]

[Elok]

I'd kinda like to get a whole crowd together behind two guys marching down the street with a giant "Man-boy love is not a crime!" sign, and see how long it takes them to look up from their smartphones and notice.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

You could lure people to a very out-of-the-way spot and rob/rape/eat them as they approach.

Probably less fun, but conceptually a lot funnier, if you reverse the order...

[The Mad Monk]

http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/11/12149510/pokemon-go-fighting-isis-kurdistan

[Elok]

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/12/485759308/holocaust-museum-arlington-national-cemetery-plead-no-pokemon?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160712

Someone on FB claimed that somebody found a "koffing" at the Holocaust Museum. A quick Google reveals that this is a Pokemon known for producing poison gas. Somebody did not think this through at all well . . .