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The top five most surprising stories about Pokémon Go ... so far
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/12/top-five-most-outlandish-pokemon-go-stories
Did you hear the one about the Wyoming girl who stumbled across a dead body while catching Pokémon by a river?
Catching cheating boyfriends, stumbling across dead bodies and advertising one’s services as a professional Pokémon Go trainer – less than a week since the launch of the virtual-meets-real-world app Pokémon Go and the stories it has sparked are kookier than the names of the critters its fans are trying to catch.
Cheating boyfriend
Evan Scribner, a resident of Sunnyside, Queens, told the New York Post that his girlfriend spotted his infidelities after accessing his Pokémon Go app and noticing that he’d caught a Pokémon in the exact location of his ex-girlfriend’s house in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
“She saw that I had caught a Pokémon while at my ex’s house,” Scribner told the Post. “She found out last night at my house and hasn’t contacted me since then.”
Professional Pokémon trainer
No time to spend your summer days walking the streets in search of Pokéstops when you also have a real job? No problem. Craigslist ads are now popping up for Pokémon trainers, with prices in New York City ranging from $20-30 per hour.
Arthur, a 26-year-old lifelong Pokémon fan, is offering his services for $25 per hour:
Did you hear the one about the Wyoming girl who stumbled across a dead body while catching Pokémon by a river?
Catching cheating boyfriends, stumbling across dead bodies and advertising one’s services as a professional Pokémon Go trainer – less than a week since the launch of the virtual-meets-real-world app Pokémon Go and the stories it has sparked are kookier than the names of the critters its fans are trying to catch.
Cheating boyfriend
Evan Scribner, a resident of Sunnyside, Queens, told the New York Post that his girlfriend spotted his infidelities after accessing his Pokémon Go app and noticing that he’d caught a Pokémon in the exact location of his ex-girlfriend’s house in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
“She saw that I had caught a Pokémon while at my ex’s house,” Scribner told the Post. “She found out last night at my house and hasn’t contacted me since then.”
Professional Pokémon trainer
No time to spend your summer days walking the streets in search of Pokéstops when you also have a real job? No problem. Craigslist ads are now popping up for Pokémon trainers, with prices in New York City ranging from $20-30 per hour.
Arthur, a 26-year-old lifelong Pokémon fan, is offering his services for $25 per hour:
Could be a career option for some enterprising individuals.
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We discussed setting up voter registration booths at popular Pokestops, purchasing a lure pack (lures rare Pokemons to your location), then tweeting that we will have lures set up for certain time periods, so come out, register to vote and catch some Pokies. Bet we get a TON of retweets and sign up a bunch of young voters 
you're a loser, in my book. And that goes for several people in this thread.
And it's genuinely helping people, and some people want to be jerks towards them. Wow, how edgy. /sarc
I'm not about to go wandering all over town staring at my phone, but I've managed to catch a Bulbasaur in my living room, a Pidgey in a friend's back yard, and a Weedle and a Zubat at a nearby coffee shop! 
