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No doubt, Pokemon Go reigns the pop culture, however, there are series of accident report that involved playing this mobile game. On Thursday, July 14, there was a stampede happened in Central Park.

A video recorded a chaos in Central Park in New York City as the Pokemon Go players heard some had spotted a Vaporeon, thus making other players rush to get that rare Pokemon, Comic Book reported. The stampede happened around 11 p.m. The Pokemon Go player filmed the Vaporeon stampede, and he posted it on Vimeo.

According to the source, people rushed to get the Vaporeon because Eevees are uncommon in Pokemon Go and Eevee evolutions in the wild are even more rare. As of now, Pokemon Go is the biggest mobile app in history. The mobile game is available in the United States, Australia, New Zealand and most of Europe.

Meanwhile, Pokemon Go servers have been taken down, and a group of hackers named PoodleCorp, claimed the responsibility. PoodleCorp took Twitter telling online users, they took down Pokemon Go servers.

"PokemonGo #Offline #PoodleCorp," PoodleCorp tweeted.

This is not the first time they hacked popular sites. Recently, they hacked  high profile YouTubers such as Pewdiepie and Watch Mojo, a Canadian-based privately held video content producer, according to Gearnuke.

On Sunday, July 17, Steam also appeared down worldwide, however, it did not last long because after 20 minutes, the gaming platform went back to normal, according to Attack of The Fanboy.

Pokemon Go servers had some technical issues in July after its launching. Some players complained that the app kept on crashing while they were playing.

There were accidents reported that involved playing Pokemon Go in July. One of them is the man crashed his car into a tree in New York, on Friday, July 15. He admitted he was playing the mobile game, thus making him distracted.

On Thursday, July 14,  two men in San Diego fell off a cliff, Independent UK reported. According to authorities, the two men climbed over the fence in attempt to catch pokemonster. 

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