Pokemon Go ice cream van is every parent’s NIGHTMARE
Parents have reported a creepy looking Poke-themed van which is handing out ice cream to kids on the streets
IMAGINE thinking your children are safe playing Pokemon Go in your street, but there's a deadly secret lurking just around the corner.
But that's just what's happened in the Orange County over in the US thanks to a Pokemon Go ice cream truck decorated with the Pikachu from your nightmares.
According to the , the above ice cream truck has been prowling the streets across Southern California attempting to lure in young Pokemon Go trainers with the promise of ice cream.
The publication also suggests that the main appeal of the truck was to offer gamers a charging station with which to refuel their phones so they can carry on catching Pokemon.
Thankfully it seems no-one has been hurt or terrified by the creepy van, but it's just another (potential) horror story that's related to Pokemon Go.
So far, Pokemon Go players have been involved in car accidents, been potential murder victims, been robbed at gunpoint, injured themselves and more.
It became such an issue that the app's creators, Niantic, had to litter the game with player warnings advocating safe Pokemon trainer behaviour.
For anyone out of the loop, Pokemon Go is an augmented reality mobile game that allows users to track and catch, battle and train Pokemon in their real-world surroundings.
In-game events and locations are tied to real-world venues and markers, from bus stops and well-known pubs to monuments like the Houses of Parliament.
The game encourages players to get out and about, walking to make new Pokemon hatch from eggs, find new focus points and catch new critters.
When the game was first released back in July, millions flocked to the App Store to try their hand at becoming a real-life Pokemon trainer.
So many, in fact, that the first month of the game's release was plagued with server issues as the developer hadn't expected Pokemon Go to be as popular.
Frustrations, missing features and regular crashes meant that the user numbers massively dipped within a few months of release though.
But now Niantic seems to have found a sweet spot, regularly issuing updates to the game to add new Pokemon, timed events or other features that keep players interested, or at least regularly coming back to the game.
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