That wasn't the only incident. Private cul-de-sac residents Scott Dodich and Jayme Gotts-Dodich allege that since the smartphone game was launched in July, "Pokemon Go players parked their vehicles on their street and blocked driveways, ... trespassed on lawns, trampled landscaping and peeped into windows."
Plus, distracted pedestrians "walking in front of cars because they are looking down at their phones."
But the verbal threat against Gotts-Dodich was the straw that broke the camel's back. So the couple sued the makers of Pokemon Go.
The game company (actually three collaborating companies) are culpable for damages, the couple's team of Beverly Hills-based attorneys claim, because Pokemon Go uses satellite mapping to scatter so-called Pokestops and Gyms all over the place, including a park near the couple's home. These digital hot spots attract hordes of players, whether nearby residents like it or not.
The couple requested the removal of the sites, but to no avail. So they summoned a team of attorneys who conceived a class action lawsuit on behalf of everyone who has been violated by the game. Based on the court document's legalize, if successful, anyone who becomes part of the lawsuit could receive a cut of Pokemon Go profits.
The class action suit explains that "the Plaintiffs' once-quiet street degenerated into 'a nightmare' for Plaintiffs and their neighbors."
In the lawsuit, Gotts-Dodich reports that she has begun "seeking help for anxiety ... I guess you could say I had a nervous breakdown. I’ve never had to encounter this feeling in my life. ... We have veterans with PTSD and this traffic is getting to them as well."
The concept of a class action lawsuit against the creators of Pokemon seems to have taken root in Canada as well.
An Albertan woman against California-based Niantic Inc., the creator of Pokemon Go, saying she's suffering from an invasion of privacy.
Barbra-Lyn Schaeffer said Wednesday that she's been inundated by Pokemon Go players at her home 160 kilometers (99 miles) northeast of Calgary ever since it became the site of a Pokemon gym.
"The way I look at it, the game is fine. My kids play it, my grandkids play it but just don't do it at my house," Schaeffer said.
Schaeffer said people have been trying to crawl over her fence into the grounds of her home and added there are people sitting out in front of their home at all hours of the day and night.
"We moved out here to be in the quiet, not to have people climb up over my fence," she said. "The last thing we need is strangers trying to peer in our windows. On Saturday, someone flew a drone up into our yard to play the game."
The lawsuit was filed in Calgary and has not been certified by the courts, which determines whether it can proceed.
Schaeffer said she sent a request to Niantic asking her home be removed and only received a computer-generated response saying the company would look into it. The idea of launching the class-action lawsuit isn't about the money, she said.
"I just want to be left alone. I just want it removed and apparently they're not doing that," she said.
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Article: Edited from Fox Live and The Times Picayne
