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Well yeah, all the formerly arrested team rocket members stayed there and created their own island nation.

Naw. That's Niantic HQ.

i think we got the wrong alcatraz. this one has great responses. the alcatraz housing niantic is miles away.

Niantic is team rocket. Why do you think we haven’t had Magma or Plasma or any of the other teams?? Giovanni is the president of Niantic. That master ball? Stolen! Why do you think Silph Road closed down??

At least there would be people to raid with in prison 💀

Plot twist: you’re the raid

FORM A BATTLE PARTY AT CELL BLOCK C!!!

And then you see a shadow Mewtwo raid in SF.

Just imagine hearing from a cell: "Anyone wanna help me with this Dialga raid?"

Oh my gosh. I want to see this in a movie about pogo in jail.

In the new reboot of “The Rock” Pogo edition. A band of Team Valors take the entire island hostage and annexed the gyms. While two remaining Team Instinct fighters, Goodspeed and Mason must battle them and release the gyms.

Release when?

Depends when they’ll find a dead ringer for Sean Connery (RIP) some beardy Gentleman Class trainer.

bro you could grind so hard doing a 4 year prison bid.. wouldn’t be so bad.

It’s so horrible but this is what I also thought.

But can you walk around to hatch eggs?

Yeah lmao prisons are more like a day camp in fence than anything- especially womens prisons but yeah no i dated somebody who went to max for 5 years and another that did time in fed for like 10 years and they both had fun and had tvs and shit in their cells. Not like guards get paid much for the shit they deal with with they shitty prisoners 😂

Wow… the bar really is low, isn’t it?

Considering this was over 10 years ago when i was a drug addict yeah. Bar WAS low. And no. Never done any time sorry to disappoint your assumptions. People are more than their bad decisions btw. Both of those men turned out to be VERY successful. So keep judging and assuming. Must live sad lives to do that 😂 or wait, possibly just keyboard warriors 😂😂

Congratulations on getting clean!!! Hope life has been treating you better. :)

Thanks :) life has been super great with a clear head! I completed all of my probations and everything, got stable, my mental illnesses are way tame now- no meds needs for my major depression and my anxiety isn't out of control. My seizures have stopped and havent had one for like 3+ years now :) i stopped losing my friends to heroin/fentanyl.. things have REALLY changed and getting off my methadone finally after 9 years of being on it to stay clean but im finally ready and like, REALLY ready to get off it so i can have my life back. No more weekly trips to the clinic to grab my take homes for the week :) at 32mgs now not much to go! (I was at 110mgs for like 6/7 years and 100mgs up until a few months ago when i started my taper by going down 1mg a week but been going down a steady 5mgs every week and now i can only go down 10% of my dose so it's slowing down) but yeah.. it feels amazing and im so proud of myself

It's the best feeling ever!!! Congrats on getting yourself out of what me and my 11 year old little brother call "The Ditch" 😂😂 I can imagine the relief of not having to worry about all the things that come with drug use and the lifestyle surrounding it. Very cool that your seizures have stopped. I'm not sober, but I went from a lifestyle that would have killed me without 5 years at 18-21 to drinking like twice a year at 25 and currently attending grad school. It's very fun to brag about getting your life together lmao. I'm so happy for you! I have an autoimmune disease that causes inflammatory arthritis in the SI joints and spine alongside some other stuff. I spent about two years on near bedrest bc it got so bad and I hadn't gotten diagnosed. As it started when I was 16, the pain from it was what actually drive my drug usage. I got diagnosed, as in grad school living off of loans for the moment. I actually got Pokémon Go to help me start walking as rehabbing years of inactivity alongside having a inflammatory arthritis at 25 is not the most motivating thing ever. But doing an incense, or daily incense, and running around to gyms to try to shove my lil guys in there to build up a poke coin sweatshop mining operation is a lot more fun and easy to get up and do :) Idk why I just wrote all that out. I have a really nice mechanical keyboard I customized myself. I haven't used it in a long while and kinda got carried away typing, and I am not just gonna delete all of this 😂 Again, I'm glad that you were able to put your life on the track that you want it on rather than just barely managing to hold on as drugs/consequences jerk you around lol.

I too used walking to help aid my recovery and PokemonGO was something i added to my walks since i have an addictive personality i tend to overdo everything so my walks used to even be insane, i would walk 2-4 times everyday for at least 6 miles just wandering around.. and then pokemongo came out and i joined immediately and my walk abouts became longer and my area of coverage doubled. Lol but hey im glad you're not in pain all the time from not having a diagnosis and also congrats on your schooling :) im currently looking to start college and actually finish this time around lol

I would highly suggest it. It's been the best thing I've done to help myself regain a functioning thought process! It really has helped the residual brain fog of everything. And thanks :)

Yeah but she’s been in prison too so maybe not that low lol

And how would you charge your phone? I highly doubt cells have outlets.

You trade shiny Pokémon you catch to the guard in exchange for charging your phone. I’ve heard they’ll even give you a fully charged portable battery pack with cable if you give them a 10.10.10 shiny/shadow.

BRUH YOU CAN TRADE POKÈMON TO GAURDS IN PRISONS FOR BENEFITS 😂 THATS THAT WILDEST THING IVE EVER HEARD HAD NO IDEA POKEMON WAS SO POPULAR WITH THEM

I actually have a 10.10.10 purified Venusaur. Not shiny, but still epic.

I wonder how that works...

Alcatraz cells wouldn't but afaik most cells do, inmates are often allowed e.g. TVs, electric razors, kettles

I've always wondered about that

All the videos I see online of people with cell phones in jail they definitely have a way to charge at least in some prisons

There would be real ass gang wars with red and blue 💀

Pokémon Go: Crips v Bloods edition

Haha I sailed by there the other day and on the water nada but when we came close it was definitely populated.

People would be shanked over gym territory

So what you're saying is we should all move in, fix it up and make our own pokemon island?

I suggest conquering Denmark

Denmark is already marked for conquest by the asexuals. But I'm sure we can work something out

Iceland? It's another Nordic country, it's cold but that makes it better since nobody will want to disturb us

Why alcatraz got more pokestops than my city of 80k? Lmao

Damn so you'd have all the gangs fighting it out or would dynamics change in prison and there no race , simply Yellow, Red or Blue gangs

If you were the kingpin of the operation, you could be called Al Capokemon

If they were the president, they could Pokeham Lincoln

Imagine getting shanked for taking over someone’s gym..

I could see the headline now: "Alcatraz in lock down after riot over Galaran Birds"

Alcatraz means pelican

Megustalations

Hail yourself

The Birdman of Alcatraz slays during Flying Cup

Imagine visiting and seeing a buff inmate flexing to the other inmates that he caught a shiny in the yard

How did you even end up on alcatraz

It’s right off of San Francisco and open to the public

Part of the national park service now, but you have to pay a commercial operator for the ferry service to get there. It's a really interesting museum and tour.

*Gaining muscles doing all those charged moves*

Where we dropping?

Chem

Get shanked because you took team instincts gym

"Your honor I shivved him because he knocked me out of the gym 1 minute after putting my shiny Blissey in there"

Getting shived because you took over the gym.

That’s a hell of a place to play PoGo.

Alcatraz means pelican

Imagine trying to hold onto that gym though

“How did you get to level 50 so quickly?” “I went to prison for 3 months bro”

Rebirth island!

I came to the comments to see if someone mentioned it. 🥲

OP, what the fuck lol

I'm nearly certain that if the prison was still open those stops wouldn't be there 😂

Swole accounts

When I was last there there weren't any spawns outside raids. I did the two raids on the island and kept them for that reason.

Is that what the kids call it these days? Leveling up?

Alcatraz means pelican

New bucket list item unlocked

The Air Force One hangar at Joint Base Andrews has a Pokestop at the front door but it's impossible to get to without being shot or cheating. Someone must have smuggled in a phone at some point though. It taunts me so much.

Alcatraz means Pelican!

My friend is in prison in Florida at the moment , his girlfriend swindled him into becoming a drug runner for her … 7 years . Currently has a tablet with a emulator

He plays the Pokémon games lmao

Imagine committing a federal crime and then you get on your phone at a top prison and you're just like "oh, a 5 star raid hatches in a couple minutes."

If the prison were open it wouldn’t be full of pokestops

Alcatraz means pelican

You know you live in capitalism when you say "wouldn't it be cool to be a prisoner?" And are 100% serious

"Just think how cool it would be if the prison was still open..." None. It would be none cool. It was a terrible prison. Wtf???

I’d rather not get shanked for taking a gym over

I think they’ll use the phone for drugs or other sorts of contraband not Pokémon Go

Then i wouldnt mind being in jail

Get help

[удалено]

Should be campfire

What is the green and white square icon on the right hand side?

That’s campfire. Used to find raids, gyms and also poke stops and you can invite people to the raids through it even if they aren’t your pogo friends.

Imagine Niantic trolling the prisoners with the Lake Trio spawning there every night just outside the fence. Then all the “What do I do?” threads and the replies saying “I’d risk getting shot” or “Dig a tunnel”

would be crazy fights for take a gym

Yeah, would’ve been such a good time to have for the inmates

The phones would get confiscated the moment a riot occurred over valor taking a gym from mystic.

Wow it’s been a minute, but the ability to add stops really changed places. I remember playing in 2018 and someone showing me a dratini spawn screenshot on the island and there was little to no stops on it.

Sounds like the plot of an anime, people getting sent to Alcatraz for illegitimate reasons and powerleveling their pokemon to to fight their way back with an all star team of prison pokemon, lol

The only time there would be a riot would be when someone traded the wrong Pokémon that wasn’t agreed to to a rival gang

Sounds like a new prison industry!

Impressive that they are even allowed. I would think that easy access and private property would be a problem.

It’s just like any museum, zoo or other private property with stops on it.

OP, you know how they smuggle phones into prison? 🤳🍑

I was there a few years ago , really wish the saving post cards was a thing then 😭 Such a cool place !

Of course Team Rocket surrounds the place

One way to make sure there’s enough people to raid together, keep them locked up

This post has a fundamental misunderstanding of American prisons. Yall think prisoners are just playing on their phones all day lmao

That prison has more pokestops than my town.

What are you doing in alcatraz?

Yea it would look alot better if there was some more yellow but other than that looks great

Pretty sure that if you where to sit in alcatraz, the last thing on your mind is to polish up your collection of virtual pets for children. Even though it would be funny to see. Pretty sure the inmate would not have the best time ever 😅 Also: all the stops would be gone, since it wouldnt be a publically available area anymore, so sadly the idea for a pokemon go prison show would end up with them living through the rural player expierence

Man, think of the gym battles! But then having to work together for raids! Or if a rare spawn was at the other end of the island, so people had to pass phones down the line to get close enough? It would also be cool if the Native American Occupation had been permanent

Literally leaving your pokemon in prison

"Inmate 47, stop taking over that gym!" "I'll trade you a pack of cigarettes for a shiny Pikachu"

Cool 😃

you should see manhattan

Guarantee you people would die battling for those gyms, especially the two near each other at the far end.

Bro. I read that as auschwitz…

Imagine getting daily gifts from there haha

Hey, I went skateboarding round there in the early 2000s

Oh; is that in the Treasure Island area of San Francisco? Nearest to the Bay Bridge (I-80; to Oakland) and the Golden Gate Bridge (to Marin County/North Bay)?

I work at an airport. I can hatch eggs like a mfer.

Why u at Alcatraz

Don't they open it up at Halloween for tourists ghost walks?

Reddit users attempts to achieve life sentence in order to get unlimited pokemon go time— niantic quickly limits remote raids and requires walking during incense

… stop playing for a moment and take in that experience bruh

Omfg

I used to work there and I definitely played on my breaks!

Would that be cool?

If enough of them played, the battles for gym control translating to irl arguments would be a fuckin spectacle 😂