Kids Are Trying To Play Pokemon GO at a Construction Site in front of the High School - Here's Why

OAK CREEK - According to a report from Oak Creek NOW, Police received a report from a construction crew working at Oak Creek High School, 340 E. Puetz Road, at 9:10 a.m. July 12, that there have been "tons of kids" wanting to get into the construction site to play the Pokemon Go game and they are hopping the fence at night.

Your Oak Creek Patch.com Editor can tell you why that's happening.

For decades, the Oak Creek municipal complex used to be located near Puetz and Howell, the site of the new Oak Creek High School campus expansion.

Several years ago, a GPS-enabled game called Ingress became popular with many smartphone owners. The game involved going to different landmarks, such as town centers, libraries, statues, monuments, cemeteries, etc. in order to capture these landmarks for their faction.

In Ingress, each faction tried capturing these landmarks, and linking them together in order to create territories for their faction.

Fast forward to 2016, and the same company that developed Ingress also developed another GPS-enabled game, Pokemon GO. That company, Niantic, used all of the landmarks that were collected by Ingress players and used them to produce "Pokestops" and "Gyms" in Pokemon GO.

Although the old city hall and library are no longer on that corner in Oak Creek, the old Ingress landmarks remained, and were used in the production of Pokemon GO. Now Pokemon GO players are trying to access a construction site that contains Pokestops and Gyms - and the developer of the game still thinks it's a municipal center ... and a safe place for kids to go.

It seems dangerous, at at times suspicious, but that's the lowdown.

Here's a link to the game Ingress. A lot of Pokemon GO players are signing up to the play the game in order to access all of the Ingress intel maps. In doing so, Pokemon GO players have their best access to finding Pokestops , Gyms to enhance their game play.

Your Patch.com editor, admittedly, is a self-described nerd.

But I'm here to help, if I can.