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Discovery Green in Houston Says Pokemon No
Discovery Green Park in Houston wants to stop playing Pokemon Go now.

HOUSTON, TX — That's it, the party's over. Take your zubats, pidgeys and rattatas home — Discovery Green doesn't want to play anymore.
The Discovery Green Conservancy, the non-profit that runs the park, cited concerns about people visiting the private park in downtown after hours when it released a statement informing the world that the group has asked Niantic, the company that developed the smartphone app, to "remove all stops, lures and creatures from the park."
Killjoys.
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Since people started coming to the park more frequently to catch 'mons the conservancy has had to pay for extra trash pickup, maintenance, overnight security and landscaping.
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Essentially, the conservancy is saying that they didn't budget for the park to be this popular and are trying to tell people not to come between the hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.
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