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- ABC News
- July 12, 2016
All the Strange Places Pokemon Go Gyms Can Be Found
Pokemon trainers have begun congregating for battle at the Pentagon.
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“Are you training?”
— Boon Sheridan (@boonerang) July 10, 2016
“Heck yeah, this is *my* gym!”
“Cool, this is *my* house! We should be friends.\"
Twitter users discovered a gym on top of the Westboro Baptist Church, and noticed the name of the gym's owner was \"LoveIsLove.\" The organization decided to fight for its Pokemon gym, recruiting Jigglypuff to help.
@stephmsolis We recruited Jigglypuff to deal with the sodomite loveislove Clefairy for us: https://t.co/HyQvNAx90A
— Westboro Baptist (@WBCSaysRepent) July 11, 2016
There have been multiple reports of an active Pokemon gym in the White House.
The @WhiteHouse is guarded by a pidgeot named Merica. #PokemonGo pic.twitter.com/dMABhqWqDM
— Rob Gordon (@MiniMike_) July 10, 2016
Reddit users, on a sub-reddit dedicated specifically to the discovery of the gym in the middle of the White House, speculated it was most likely Vice President Joe Biden playing Pokemon Go in the White House.
Twitter users have also mused over the discovery of a Pokemon gym in center of the Pentagon.
Gym at the Pentagon has the most accurate Pokémon to represent the US Gov. #Pokemon pic.twitter.com/dQvj2O7nZP
— Denz Dejawon (@DenzingDown) July 10, 2016
Pentagon is a gym and its controlled by a snorlax with super high security clearance ?? #PokemonGO pic.twitter.com/AIqwkVYKJv
— Hannah Vick (@HanananahVick) July 10, 2016
This New Zealand duo kayaked out to the open sea to claim a Pokemon gym out on the water.
Yeah, we kayaked out to the fountain to claim this gym for #teamblue #pokemongo pic.twitter.com/vKyWMK4bsN
— Kelsey Thomson (@Kelchup) July 10, 2016
One Pokemon trainer discovered an awkwardly located gym atop a memorial for victims of yellow fever in a viral tweet that has garnered more than 4,000 likes.
My nearest Pokemon Gym is right through this overgrown thicket. It's....oh....ohhhh... pic.twitter.com/0u6lJurY4U
— Minovsky (@MinovskyArticle) July 7, 2016
It was also recently discovered that the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington, D.C, is the site of a PokeStop, a hub where trainers can get in-app goods.
In response to the influx of museum-goers playing Pokemon Go, the museum had to ask people to stop playing Pokemon Go there, museum officials said.
\"Playing Pokemon Go in a memorial dedicated to the victims of Nazism is extremely inappropriate. We are attempting to have the Museum removed from the game,\" Andy Hollinger, the museum's director of communications, said in a statement to ABC News today. \"The Museum encourages visitors to use their phones to share and engage with Museum content while here. Technology can be an important learning tool, but this game falls far outside of our educational and memorial mission.\"
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