Pokémon GO maybe a worldwide phenomenon, but it has caused some problems for police in various places across the globe. Tokyo is the latest example of local authorities having to intervene to stop the chaos caused by the game. Following the appearance of a Lapras in Tokyo’s Odaiba district, a massive crowd appeared looking for the rare monster. The event reached such a level that social media has dubbed it the “Lapras Panic”. One Twitter user even captured a video showing the huge gathering of people spilling out into the road. Police had to come to break up the crowd before anyone was hurt. While it is a shame the authorities had to become involved, we hope those ambitious Trainers got their Lapras.
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Commander where was this crowd when the Xbox was released?
I think there is still slim hope
||Hope for what?…||
For the Nintendo Master Race to rise again and take over the world for once
||It’s inevitable, in our Homeworld…||
This is like watching ants scramble everywhere.
This is like watching thousands of ants scramble everywhere.
||Well the cattle needs to roam free from time to time, so that we can harvest the resources we need…||
Lol, this is so fake. It’s not real footage.
I don’t blame them. Lapras is rare as fuck.
I got lucky finding one by the beach one day.
And they said Pokemon GO died off :)
you forget in japan shit like this doesn’t die down !
Around when the game first came out, I was in a huge crowd, similar to this one, when a blastoise spawned at Downtown Park in Bellevue, Wa. There were hundreds of people stampeding across busy streets and around driving cars. I had to climb a cement wall to escape the very tightly cramped crowd. I at least caught the Blastoise XD
LMAO
Too bad it wasn’t Groudon. I have just such a video for the day this becomes a reality when people are stampeding about to get him/her.
HA!
I thought there was a typhoon in JP… What the hell are people doing outside?
LOL, I have seen Lapras where I live, nobody ran for that.
There’s been bigger crowds in the States early in the release. It’s just died down here is all.