Could you catch a human with a pokeball?

[Rubik]

This question has plagued trainers and scientists alike for as long as they've existed.

Humans are descended from Mew, so you'd think on some level they would be considered a "pokemon".

There's little evidence in the series of a pokeball being successfully used on a human, but could it be that they've simply programmed pokeballs to prevent this kind of abuse of pokeballs from destroying society by allowing humans to catch each other? Could a "jailbroken" pokeball" be used to catch a human?

Interested to hear other people's thoughts on the matter.

 

[Spiritual Mask Salesman]

Only one way to find out! Go Pokeball! Throws at Rubik

 

[Spirit]

Probably not.

Also in the anime Ash has been hit in the face with plenty of Poke balls and none have ever caught him.

Mewtwo's shadow poke balls that could capture Pokemon in their Poke balls didn't capture Ash when he shielded Pikachu.

But who knows... Maybe they could. I doubt you'd need to know the answer unless you were part of a fetish community.

 

[Farore's Chosen]

Yes. There was an episode where someone was. Not exactly pokeballs but something similar

 

[VikzeLink]

Ash once caught some food when trying to catch Mankey, who threw the food at the Pokéball, resulting it it being caught instead, but that's the only thing that's been caught that wasn't a Pokémon I can think of.
However, there was an episode in the Johto-saga when Ash was temporarily turned into a Pikachu... Could someone have caught him then? And what would have happened when he turned back into human?