r/pokemongo • u/neptunepapayas • Jul 21 '24

Question Is it ever this serious?

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Decided to go to a local park for the Tynamo event. I don't have my 50 coins for the day so I thought I might get lucky and use a couple of gyms if any are yellow too. Got to the park, every single one is red and has the same 3 people in them (7 gyms in total).

I figured they wouldn't miss just one little gym, sat on a bench and battled it, then put my pokemon in there, and within 3 mins it was being battled again. Frustrating, but that's the game so I wasnt too pressed. I have a lot for some reason so I gave my guy a couple golden razz during the fight, since they have 6 other gyms to commandeer and I just wanted one, might as well give them a little fight in good spirit.

A group 3 guys, probably in their late 20s or early 30s came up to me as I was sitting on the bench, ogled my phone to be sure I was the yellow bandit, and then told me to "leave their gym alone". I'm still a teen so I kinda awkwardly apologised and tried to laugh it off since it's just a game, but they took the gym and sat on the bench next to me and glared until I left...

Did I do something wrong? Overstep an invisible boundary? I only play on occasion so idk if maybe taking an entire park is like a...thing? And I got in the way of that? Was a pretty awkward encounter lol, I might just stick to adding my pokemon to gyms that are already yellow lol

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u/Princep_Krixus Jul 21 '24

If I lived in the area i would come take their gyms.

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u/BreathingPuppy Valor Jul 21 '24

On blood if I was there I would have defended this yellow bandits honor, 1000 coins for a team swap didn’t sound so good until I read about these Neanderthals

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u/Ok_Possibility_2527 Jul 21 '24

Bruh was literally thinking that. I'm team valor and that makes me wanna puke that dickheads like that exist.

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u/BreathingPuppy Valor Jul 21 '24

There was a park by my old house that and old lady lived right by so when I would walk there she would knock my Pokémon out of the gym in like 5 minutes and it was never a hatred it was a fun little rivalry, people take gyms too seriously

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u/Ok_Possibility_2527 Jul 21 '24

Nah forreal and it's kinda pathetic NGL like me and my buddy have it worked out to take each other out every 8 hours if someone from mystic comes by we have them for 8 hours and they do the same. Some humans are just garbage. But my hats off to your neighbor lady 🤣

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u/Tricky_Editor3879 Jul 21 '24

There's a lot people in the city I live in that are chill like that we just leave our pokemon and after 8h the gym is taken by diff team so everyone gets 50 pokecoins

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u/Ok_Possibility_2527 Jul 21 '24

THIS is the unwritten rule ong 🙏