Man gets stuck in mud pit while playing Pokemon Go at night

http://www.fox5ny.com/news/181628224-story

Very cool. Not the guy getting stuck, but the availability of tech to the dispatcher in order to direct LE to the gamer. Is that differential algorithm (my words) tech widely available?

That technology is widely available. The ping is usually a so called "silent SMS". The response from the phone leaves data about the call (e. g. ID, signal strength, sector and cell station) from that it´s just simple geometry. Depending on coverage the accuracy can be between 10m and 50m. In Germany it´s sometimes used to locate missing people or bad guys. Police has so called IMSI catchers to get their own data. I am sure intelligence services have it too.

All over the local TV news,
Calvin Riley was shot and killed Saturday night at Aquatic Park in San Francisco, he was playing pokemon go with a group
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they're calling it random

Unfortunately, I predict new laws to address these Pokemon mishaps. When people act like children and cannot control themselves, we get new laws to restrict our freedoms.

Iran has allready forbidden Pokemon Go.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/08/iran-bans-pokemon-go

With a little luck the company excludes sensitive by itsself and no new law a re required. In an augmented reality game that should not be that hard to implement.
It kind of worked for geocaching too. Groundspeak tightened the reigns on their players a bit. In Germany some areas require written permission of the owner.
BTW: Did they already catch people using GPS in simulator mode to hunt Pokémons? UAVs seem to be in use for the hunt.

Iran forbids a lot of stuff.

I don't think forbidding the game is going to help much, nor is that the right direction for a government to take IMHO. The game is not inherently bad or dangerous. It's the inattentive and inconsiderate idiots who are playing it who are causing the problems.

The article reads like they have not given permission to play the game yet. They have not even been asked for it.
Shooting or arresting an incosiderate idot close to military facilties might bring bad publicity. I understand that they would not like the game to be played in certain areas.

Some companies seem to have concerns too:
http://eurasiadiary.com/news/sience/62654-volkswagen-has-banned-employees-to-play-pokemon-go-to-work