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Mind control fears forced Lions player to quit Pokemon Go

Related Topics: Pokémon, Mind control, End time, Fear

Pokemon Go? More like Wokemon Go.

The popular app has countries starting to fear that the adorable animated creatures signal the end of time. According to Reuters, China fears the app can "work out where Chinese military bases are by seeing where users can't go to capture Pokemon characters." People playing the game in Russia could land themselves in jail.

America hasn't quite caught up to the dangers, but Lions guard Larry Warford is starting to spread the word, via the Detroit Free Press.

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"I was like, ‘This is bad, this is bad,'" Warford said, describing the horror of watching his teammates play the game as they went out to eat.