Sex pigs halt traffic after laser attack on Pokémon teens

The Local, Swedish news in English, reports,

Tiny Insjön in central Sweden isn't known for pig mask-wearing couples shooting lasers at Pokémon hunters before having sex by a waterwheel. But that could be about to change.

It was Friday night in the village of 2,000 souls when two teenage siblings wandered out with their smartphones to play Pokémon Go.

But instead of finding Pikachu or Squirtle they soon came face to face in the park with a couple who must have seemed scarcely more real.

The teenagers’ mother, who reported the incident to the police, told newspaper Dalarnas Tidningar:

“They wore rubber masks depicting pigs’ heads and they started screaming and waving a green laser.”

A laser beam hit one of the teens in the face and the children rushed back home, shaken but luckily unharmed.

The masked shooters, who also wore T-shirts labeled ‘King’ and ‘Queen’, were next spotted by incredulous motorists as they had sex beside the hamlet’s waterwheel.


Traffic backed up on the highway as some drivers slowed down and others clambered out of their cars to behold the bizarre spectacle, one motorist told the paper.

The police didn’t care so much about the traffic jam, she said, but officer Daniel Hagthorpe was concerned about the alleged laser attack and public sex.

“Pointing at someone with green laser can cause injury if it hits the eyes,” he told Dalarnas Tidningar.

And their waterwheel sex could be considered sexual harassment if anyone took offence, he added.

The couple's identity and whereabouts remain unknown.

h/t American Digest

How to make money off of Pokemon Go.

Forbes has an article about McDonalds offering Pokemon Go the use of its restaurants as places where Pokemon go users can come to do battle.

The terms of Nintendo and Niantic’s partnership with McDonalds are still unknown, but Niantic CEO John Hanke recently told The Financial Times that other businesses would become sponsors too. Advertisers will pay on a “cost per visit” basis, as they might do for “cost per click” with Google.

For businesses that rely on foot traffic, sponsored ‘pokestops’ and ‘gyms’ could be a Godsend. One owner of a pizza restaurant in Queens, new York, said his shop’s business had increased 75% after he paid $10 to place a dozen Pokémon characters in his store.

“The amount of people has been astonishing,” he told The New York Post.

The beginning of the end?

It's happening! A miracle! Obese people are outside walking tonight, looking for Pokemon! It's only a matter of time. Pounds are being shed all over America. Saturday night here in Parker, Colorado is movie night in O'Brien Park. As usual, a large crowd is gathered. But no one is watching the movie, Ferris Buehler's Day Off. Instead, people are looking at their cell phones, rising up out of their chairs, and walking around the park trying to catch Pokemon. It is the beginning of the end of obesity in America! Get up, get out, and explore!

Pokémon Go isn’t really a game. It’s a new technology.

Ezra Klein writes at Vox,

Pokémon Go isn’t really a game. It’s a new technology.

Venture capitalist Chris Dixon has a line I like. "The next big thing will start out looking like a toy," he says. Welp, Pokémon Go looks like a toy. Hell, it is a toy. But it’s also the first widespread, massive use case for augmented reality — even though it’s operating on smartphones that aren’t designed for AR. So what’s going to happen as the hardware improves, the software improves, and the architects learn to use these more immersive environments to addict us more fully?

...The easy analogy here is drugs. We know drugs are a cheap way for people unhappy, or unsatisfied, with this reality to escape to a (temporarily) more pleasurable one. We’ve stanched that by making most recreational drugs illegal. But VR and AR are a consumer technology. We don’t make consumer technologies illegal. We celebrate them, write stories about them, improve them. And so they get better, more addictive, more alluring.

Read more here.