Pokemon GO fans told not to play in U.S. Holocaust Museum

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Technology | Wed Jul 13, 2016 8:47am EDT

Pokemon GO fans told not to play in U.S. Holocaust Museum

WASHINGTON | BY KOUICHI SHIRAYANAGI

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has told Pokemon GO fans not to play the popular new mobile game in its premises, describing it as "extremely inappropriate" in a memorial dedicated to the victims of Nazism.

The game involves using a mobile device to find and capture virtual Pokemon characters at real life locations, including apparently inside the Washington-based museum.

The idea of players roaming its halls, eyes glued to phones in search of the computerized figures, shocked many after an image was posted online showing one of the characters located outside the doors to the museum's Helena Rubinstein Auditorium.

"We are attempting to have the museum removed from the game," the museum's communications director, Andy Hollinger, said in a statement.

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[CurtEastPoint]

1. What Americans get obsessed over never ceases to amaze me.

[patricia92243]

2. Agree - this is extremely bad taste. Used my PG first time this AM. The sun shining on it made

it impossible to see where I need to go. I'm going to ask Verizon if there is something I can buy so I can see my phone out of doors.

[snooper2]

4. You don't need to ask Verizon, just get one of these

[IgelJames4]

11. Well said

Some people just have no class or manners. They should show some respect when visiting such places.

[Paladin]

3. What an unspeakably vile way of carrying on.

So glad the museum cracked down on this.

[WillowTree]

5. Also Arlington National Cemetery and the 9-11 Memorial.

[Iggo]

6. I was gonna say "Who needs to be told not to play in the Holocaust Museum?"

But then I remembered I used to have small children.

Oh, wait. These aren't children? They're actual adults?

Okay, now I'm all the way back to "Who the fuck needs to be told not to play in the goddam Holocaust Museum? What the fuck is wrong with you people? You're stupid and you suck!"

[Phentex]

9. ...

[marmar]

7. It's sad that they would even have to make this statement.

You would think that the gamers and the manufacturer would have more respect. But the pursuit of profit respects no one, apparently.

[Behind the Aegis]

8. How sad.

It is sad that people have to be told this. This should take place in any museum, but especially a memorial site.

[Solly Mack]

10. That one should be a no-brainer. Apparently not though.

Sad.

There do exist situations, events, and locations where such activities are disruptive, disrespectful, and downright offensive.