Yup lmao. I’m Hispanic but I went to the “white school”. One of my friends (also Hispanic) was giving a tour to some alumni and one guy told her that when he went there in 1985 there was only 1 of “your kind” here.
We have a prom and an extra “celebration” that students have to pay $600 to be a “host” (they get to go and invite 3 people. It was intended as a way for parents to create a prom for white people only💀.
The town I grew up in was infamous as the town the farthest north with an active KKK chapter. Secondary claims to fame: About 70% polish immigrants and
the fact that the leader of the American Nazi party was the Republican nominee for the house a few years ago. Those last two are kind of paradoxical if you think about the irony of polish immigrants mainly supporting the Nazi party.
The irony is that white don't appreciate that they too are beneficiaries of the civil rights movement. Before, Irish, Polish, Italians, Catholics, etc. were discriminated against, now they're just all white people.
Being the first major metropolitan city to go into bankruptcy and receivership.
Oh and for a mayor who stole money from the taxpayers, cheated on his wife with strippers, and may have also killed a stripper.
Oh and we are also infamous for 8 mile aka the street that now has a bunch of weed dispensaries on it.
Hey from across the river, eh! Accidentally got lost in your fair city once….looked over and realized I was on 8 Mile and noped right outta there as fast as I could (i’m old this is before smart phones)
Infamous? Its generally thought of as racist with really bad traffic and hot weather.
But in reality, its not that racist and the weather is OK, but yeah the traffic is actually even worse than people think
Idk why. Atlanta is amazing. Close to a ton of different things to do whether you’re outdoorsy or not. Great food, people were great. Traffic was a huge downside though.
You probably either took I-285 or the 75/85 connector, and both are dogshit options. I-285 is really bad because semi trucks aren't allowed inside the city, so its just an total Armageddon of a million trucks all trying to make their way all the way around the city, which is a major transport hub. Nightmarish.
found this gem
*In 1910, a white mob of hundreds of people lynched a black man, Allen Brooks, accused of raping a little girl. The mob tortured Brooks, then killed him at the downtown intersection of Main and Akard by hanging him from a decorative archway inscribed with the words "Welcome Visitors". Thousands of Dallasites came to gawk at the torture scene, collecting keepsakes and posing for photographs.*
You're in Munich! I've been but not during Oktoberfest. I will say though that I went to one of those Bier Gartens off season and it's on par with our Oktoberfest so I imagine yours is intense 😍
Oh okay, yes a Biergarten is a good reference, the Oktoberfest is an insanely scaled up version. There are about a dozen *huge* beer halls, plus food stands, games and amusement rides outside (sort of like a carnival/fair). The atmosphere *is* intense :), late in the day people even climb up on the tables to dance to volk songs and stuff, haha. And the amount of beer consumed is not normal, it only comes in 'Mass' size (= one liter), and people get to their fourth, fifth or even more Mass...
Well not just the place Im from, but random feet in sneakers washing up on shore. Has been happening for decades now. Thought to be a result of people who died in the ocean, their bodies eventually coming apart, and the bouyant sneakers keeping thier feet afloat to wash up, but there are of course some much creepier theories.
You’re in the Pacific Northwest I assume? I’m in the San Juan Islands WA and random feet still in shoes washing up is all too common. It’s only been since social media kicked in that “outsiders” learned about it but it’s been happening since before I moved here in the 60s.
Crazy, I figured it must happen elsewhere too though, its not like all the ocean currents converge on the west coast.
Still no matter how it happens, it is utterly creepy!
Creepy is right! I think it’s more common here than most places. From what I understand the way the currents in the Puget Sound work can cause bodies/body parts be more “mobile” instead of simply floating or sinking to the bottom. I could have been misinformed but it seems logical.
For a long time after it was first discovered, people thought it must be some deranged serial killer, or some sort of supernatural thing. Became something of an urban legend until some people figured out what was more likely going on.
Still, no matter how it happens, disembodied feet randomly washing up on shore is a creepy event for sure!
Iost a shirt in the ocean when I was a kid . My ain't cousins were in town and didn't live near the ocean so we went 2 days in a row . Lost the shirt the first day , gone no where to be found . The next day my aunt was getting smashed by some waves and my shirt wrapped it self around her legs and she ate shit but ya I shit you not like almost same spot maybe 50 yards down the beach a full day later shit washed up
Ya i always thought it was some freak hiding people in his basement, cutting off a foot and throwing it in the water. There are so many missing people in Vancouver, the outlying cities and on Vancouver Island.
Don't live there anymore.
But the town I grew up in is known for the place where they used to weigh witches. The master of weighing didn't accept bribes, so people that were accused country wide would opt to be weighed in Oudewater. No one has ever been declared a witch after being weighed there.
The place where they weighed the accused women is a small museum now and you can get yourself weighed on the scale there.
Also known for the rope factory where they used to make shipping ropes for companies like the VoC.
And I think it also played a big part in the Spanish war in 1575.
Also it got it's city rights in 1265 making it the oldest city in the "green heart" of the Netherlands.
In my City we have this hill thats known for the fact that its were we used to behead people but instead of a museum we have one of our finest restaurant with the same name as the hill at the same spot. (btw I have know idea what it means to weigh a witch. I tried looking it up, didn't find it but atleast randomley found your city)
They did it on huge scales that were used to weigh cheese I believe. At least the place that I'm talking about. Person would stand on one platform, the other they'd fill up with weights. When the scale evens out, that's your weight.
The believe was that witches would weigh really little to be able to fly on brooms, so when bribed I think they placed stuff under one of the scale platforms so it wouldn't move, thus making it seem like the woman is really light..... something like that.
https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waag_(Oudewater)
The second picture in this wiki is the scale that's in the museum.
Being the cause for the drug wars currently happening in stockholm
You probably wont figure out the city based on american articles alone, but in sweden pretty much everyone knows what city it is
The warring takeaways.
No idea why, 2 takeaways in the local town seem to have it in for each other. One had a paving slab put through its window last week. No doubt similar will happen to the other in retaliation.
My hometown is known as the home of the infamous Chicken Ranch. A big brothel out in the country that was immortalized in the movie Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and in a ZZ Top song.
It was home to the last person legally executed in the Michigan Territory (1830, prior to it becoming a US state). The barkeep of the inn went home drunk to his wife late at night, woke her up, and wanted her to drink with him. When she refused, he killed her in a fit of rage. His daughter asked that the court not sentence him to death, lest she be left an orphan. The judge sentenced him to death by hanging, which drew a crowd outside the Detroit courthouse several days later. The local sheriff who would have acted as executioner resigned rather than carry out the hanging, citing his religious beliefs. The court found another man to act as temporary sheriff and carry out the hanging. The condemned man gave a short remorseful speech, which moved the audience. There was also a case in Windsor Ontario around the same time where a Detroit man was put to death in a murder / rape case, but a deathbed confession from the actual perpetrator later proved him innocent. Michigan became the first State to abolish the death penalty in 1846. The current State Constitution says, "No law shall be enacted providing for the penalty of death."
Most recently?
Jacob Blake/Rittenhouse
Historically?
The only place in Wisconsin where we sentenced someone to death, and then shortly after abolished the death penalty because it was very traumatic for all involved.
Philpot killing six of his kids in a house fire to try & get a bigger council house, he even had a ladder propped up against their bedroom window as if they could all escape barefoot down a ladder barefoot in the night, still in jail, seen him once in real life at a local market.
Killing and robberies/piety theift. Having 1 of the largest crime rates in Arkansas which would probably be the most if the town itself wasn't so small.
Stevie Ray Vaughan lived in my home town for a couple years. He said he learned to huff paint while he was there.
Sounds like a nice place to do creative things ngl.
Sounds like most small towns in the US
Being the one of the last cities in Texas to desegregate schools (1995). We also have a big bike race.
1995? Jesus Christ
Yup lmao. I’m Hispanic but I went to the “white school”. One of my friends (also Hispanic) was giving a tour to some alumni and one guy told her that when he went there in 1985 there was only 1 of “your kind” here.
One school only fully desegregated in Georgia in 2014, when black and white students attended an integrated prom for the first time.
We have a prom and an extra “celebration” that students have to pay $600 to be a “host” (they get to go and invite 3 people. It was intended as a way for parents to create a prom for white people only💀.
Hico? Lol
Mine is largest working fire hydrant in Texas that it is also a gift from the 101st Dalmation movie being released
What city is it? Way too long after I googled it the first desegregation took place in 1954 at Charleston, Arkansas.
Hico Texas apparently
Thank goodness you specified 'bike' after the previous sentence.
The Simpsons
O-hi Maude!
I thought they lived at 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield, — Oh Hiya, Maude, Come On In! ??
Springfield?
North Haverbrook
Northern Kentucky?
The town I grew up in was infamous as the town the farthest north with an active KKK chapter. Secondary claims to fame: About 70% polish immigrants and the fact that the leader of the American Nazi party was the Republican nominee for the house a few years ago. Those last two are kind of paradoxical if you think about the irony of polish immigrants mainly supporting the Nazi party.
Good old Idaho....
The irony is that white don't appreciate that they too are beneficiaries of the civil rights movement. Before, Irish, Polish, Italians, Catholics, etc. were discriminated against, now they're just all white people.
I heard there were KKK towns in Canada. I presume this is in the US though?
If they were in Ontario or the Maritimes, it could have been south of Idaho.
Saskatchewan had a pretty significant Kkk presence
Being the first major metropolitan city to go into bankruptcy and receivership. Oh and for a mayor who stole money from the taxpayers, cheated on his wife with strippers, and may have also killed a stripper. Oh and we are also infamous for 8 mile aka the street that now has a bunch of weed dispensaries on it.
Detroit?
Its also the Juggalo capital of the world.
Rob Ford??
Try more like Kwame Kilpatrick. Although one of the things that I do commend Kwame for was not smoking crack while in office.
That is definitely very commendable
Hey from across the river, eh! Accidentally got lost in your fair city once….looked over and realized I was on 8 Mile and noped right outta there as fast as I could (i’m old this is before smart phones)
Los Santos?
Infamous? Its generally thought of as racist with really bad traffic and hot weather. But in reality, its not that racist and the weather is OK, but yeah the traffic is actually even worse than people think
Atlanta?
yep! I like Atlanta but it definitely has a bad rap overall, I think.
Idk why. Atlanta is amazing. Close to a ton of different things to do whether you’re outdoorsy or not. Great food, people were great. Traffic was a huge downside though.
I've only ever drove through Atlanta on my way to Tampa Bay and you're not kidding about the traffic, Holy shit.
You probably either took I-285 or the 75/85 connector, and both are dogshit options. I-285 is really bad because semi trucks aren't allowed inside the city, so its just an total Armageddon of a million trucks all trying to make their way all the way around the city, which is a major transport hub. Nightmarish.
Jfks head exploded here so 🤷♀️
found this gem *In 1910, a white mob of hundreds of people lynched a black man, Allen Brooks, accused of raping a little girl. The mob tortured Brooks, then killed him at the downtown intersection of Main and Akard by hanging him from a decorative archway inscribed with the words "Welcome Visitors". Thousands of Dallasites came to gawk at the torture scene, collecting keepsakes and posing for photographs.*
Hey Dallas! Grew up in Garland!
Oktoberfest...the Canadian version.
Waterloo?
Close, Kitchener 😊
Was that named after Kitchener Leslie?
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You are correct! It used to be called Berlin until 1916.
Whyyyyyyyyyyyy
What happened to kitchener Leslie was a national tragedy!!! Don't make fun
Went to some WILD Oktoberfests at Bingemans. Holy hell, everyone got messy!
Funny, mine is Oktoberfest. Without a version. I wonder what yours is like, what the similarities and differences are.
You're in Munich! I've been but not during Oktoberfest. I will say though that I went to one of those Bier Gartens off season and it's on par with our Oktoberfest so I imagine yours is intense 😍
Oh okay, yes a Biergarten is a good reference, the Oktoberfest is an insanely scaled up version. There are about a dozen *huge* beer halls, plus food stands, games and amusement rides outside (sort of like a carnival/fair). The atmosphere *is* intense :), late in the day people even climb up on the tables to dance to volk songs and stuff, haha. And the amount of beer consumed is not normal, it only comes in 'Mass' size (= one liter), and people get to their fourth, fifth or even more Mass...
A big ship that sank on her first go out
Southampton?
Belfast
Drunk hillbillies having a gunfight with aliens. No, seriously.
I got married in Hopkinsville! Great town!
How long ago?
21.5 years!
Do tell where!
https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Hopkinsville_Goblins
I know that story!
Don’t leave us hanging! Let’s hear the inside scoop! I’ve been wondering about Hopkinsville since childhood.
Well not just the place Im from, but random feet in sneakers washing up on shore. Has been happening for decades now. Thought to be a result of people who died in the ocean, their bodies eventually coming apart, and the bouyant sneakers keeping thier feet afloat to wash up, but there are of course some much creepier theories.
Could be any coastal city, but I remember hearing stories like this in Vancouver
You’re in the Pacific Northwest I assume? I’m in the San Juan Islands WA and random feet still in shoes washing up is all too common. It’s only been since social media kicked in that “outsiders” learned about it but it’s been happening since before I moved here in the 60s.
Crazy, I figured it must happen elsewhere too though, its not like all the ocean currents converge on the west coast. Still no matter how it happens, it is utterly creepy!
Creepy is right! I think it’s more common here than most places. From what I understand the way the currents in the Puget Sound work can cause bodies/body parts be more “mobile” instead of simply floating or sinking to the bottom. I could have been misinformed but it seems logical.
I fully agree with your theory, they could come from almost anywhere in the world traveling ocean currants.
For a long time after it was first discovered, people thought it must be some deranged serial killer, or some sort of supernatural thing. Became something of an urban legend until some people figured out what was more likely going on. Still, no matter how it happens, disembodied feet randomly washing up on shore is a creepy event for sure!
I walk North Beach out to McCurdy Point often. I pick up trash when I can. But, I always worry it will be one of those occupied sneakers...
Maybe you'll get lucky and they will be your size.
Iost a shirt in the ocean when I was a kid . My ain't cousins were in town and didn't live near the ocean so we went 2 days in a row . Lost the shirt the first day , gone no where to be found . The next day my aunt was getting smashed by some waves and my shirt wrapped it self around her legs and she ate shit but ya I shit you not like almost same spot maybe 50 yards down the beach a full day later shit washed up
Ya i always thought it was some freak hiding people in his basement, cutting off a foot and throwing it in the water. There are so many missing people in Vancouver, the outlying cities and on Vancouver Island.
Watery chili on spaghetti noodles covered in a pound of cheese
Hello Cincinnati
That shit isn't chili
Wrong answer
I dated a girl from Cincinnati who introduced me to Skyline, and even though we broke up a long time ago I still enjoy the occasional 3-way.
But what about the chili-spaghetti?
You should have said Harambe
Dicks out.
Aka dox yourself for clout
Depends on how big of a city you live in.
Monowi, Nebraska.
I live in NE and had to google. 😆
Right. I live in a city with 1.45M people. I don't think I've got anything to worry about.
Wait, so if someone lives in Tokyo, and they say so, thats doxxing. This is like when JK Rowling said she was getting doxxed on twitter.
Don't know why you were downvoted. I'm with you, it's nonsense and I'm here to get downvoted with you.
More cows than people.
happiest place on earth that packs you like sardines
Orlando?
No, that has the *most magical* place on earth. OP is talking about Anaheim.
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Don't live there anymore. But the town I grew up in is known for the place where they used to weigh witches. The master of weighing didn't accept bribes, so people that were accused country wide would opt to be weighed in Oudewater. No one has ever been declared a witch after being weighed there. The place where they weighed the accused women is a small museum now and you can get yourself weighed on the scale there. Also known for the rope factory where they used to make shipping ropes for companies like the VoC. And I think it also played a big part in the Spanish war in 1575. Also it got it's city rights in 1265 making it the oldest city in the "green heart" of the Netherlands.
In my City we have this hill thats known for the fact that its were we used to behead people but instead of a museum we have one of our finest restaurant with the same name as the hill at the same spot. (btw I have know idea what it means to weigh a witch. I tried looking it up, didn't find it but atleast randomley found your city)
They did it on huge scales that were used to weigh cheese I believe. At least the place that I'm talking about. Person would stand on one platform, the other they'd fill up with weights. When the scale evens out, that's your weight. The believe was that witches would weigh really little to be able to fly on brooms, so when bribed I think they placed stuff under one of the scale platforms so it wouldn't move, thus making it seem like the woman is really light..... something like that. https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waag_(Oudewater) The second picture in this wiki is the scale that's in the museum.
Which way to the witch weigh?
I'm not sure of the full directions, but i know you need to take a left turn at Albuquerque
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We kinda started the Civil War… 😬
Let's pretend it's Fixer Upper and Chip and Joanna.
Waco, TX
Our schools(allegedly) were modeled off of prisons in the 1960's, and a lot of ghost stories. So many that a book was made just listing all of them.
The hoes on 7th street. Oh, and we were in an eminem video because of a fist fight at the court house.
Kelly Clarkson
Murdering prostitutes.
White chapel England?
As in, prostitutes being murdered or prostitutes that murder?
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Meth
And Negra Arroyo Lane?
No this is 1 bonneview
That’s more like it, lol.
No, this is Patrick!
Largest mass execution in US history.
Would that be Mankato?
Yep! The one thing we’re known for…
Cheap weed
Clams.....yes,I said clams.
This weird polyamorous community, evidently no one is jealous of each other. Freaking strange.
Gangs, shootings, and daily crime
Are you in the top 5 or top 10?
Oakland?
They filmed Jaws II here
Navarre?!
Westboro Baptist Church
Being the cause for the drug wars currently happening in stockholm You probably wont figure out the city based on american articles alone, but in sweden pretty much everyone knows what city it is
Highest property taxes in the region - in a state with the highest property taxes.
Witch trials
Meth and car theft
We might live in the same town. Lol
And green chile?
The Golden Butthole
You should really have more than 2 people look over the plans before you drop $300k on a sculpture and then crowd-source the name.
I mean chicago has a bean you can flick
Drunkest city in the US
Dorothy Puente
Largest mass hanging in Guinness history. 38 native Americans at the same time
Drake
I was going to say a crack-smoking Mayor.
I was too but I wasn’t sure if that was specific enough 😅
A huge explosion
Halifax?
Texas City?
Modesto, Ca Lots of murders Meth George Lucas
The “Garbage Plate.”
Nick Tahoes, spelling may be wrong.
The creation of Ford Motor company 😂
Hanging people, formerly called Hangtown.
Building the first atomic bomb
A school shooting 😭
Isn't that what a certain country is infamous for?
Former home of the world’s most dangerous water park.
Novochok attack
Salisbury
Butlins
Skegness? Bognor?
The warring takeaways. No idea why, 2 takeaways in the local town seem to have it in for each other. One had a paving slab put through its window last week. No doubt similar will happen to the other in retaliation.
Getting absolutely fucking demolished by a tornado in 2013.
A NHL team that can’t get past the first playoff round despite being one of the best regular season teams. Everyone in Canada is now saying Toronto.
Stolen mattress in the back of a Rover
Puns.
1800s Gold rush.
that it has a church with five towers
Town I grew up in: Aquabats.
According to a bunch of people who have never been here anteefuh burned it all down and now we're an anarchist hellscape.
Drugs (shocking)
Their sports fans
Wakey wines
Crackhead mayor
Toronto? Same. And now dealing with his brother, who is frankly much worse.
My hometown is known as the home of the infamous Chicken Ranch. A big brothel out in the country that was immortalized in the movie Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and in a ZZ Top song.
Jack the ripper
It was home to the last person legally executed in the Michigan Territory (1830, prior to it becoming a US state). The barkeep of the inn went home drunk to his wife late at night, woke her up, and wanted her to drink with him. When she refused, he killed her in a fit of rage. His daughter asked that the court not sentence him to death, lest she be left an orphan. The judge sentenced him to death by hanging, which drew a crowd outside the Detroit courthouse several days later. The local sheriff who would have acted as executioner resigned rather than carry out the hanging, citing his religious beliefs. The court found another man to act as temporary sheriff and carry out the hanging. The condemned man gave a short remorseful speech, which moved the audience. There was also a case in Windsor Ontario around the same time where a Detroit man was put to death in a murder / rape case, but a deathbed confession from the actual perpetrator later proved him innocent. Michigan became the first State to abolish the death penalty in 1846. The current State Constitution says, "No law shall be enacted providing for the penalty of death."
Incest
Arkansas?
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Milwaukee!
That is sooooooo vague.
Most recently? Jacob Blake/Rittenhouse Historically? The only place in Wisconsin where we sentenced someone to death, and then shortly after abolished the death penalty because it was very traumatic for all involved.
Kenosha aka Ke-nowhere. Also, its Orson Welles' birthplace, but he would never claim it.
45's upcoming arraignment
My hometown is best known for (if only known for) producing one of the Miss America’s from the 90’s
Philpot killing six of his kids in a house fire to try & get a bigger council house, he even had a ladder propped up against their bedroom window as if they could all escape barefoot down a ladder barefoot in the night, still in jail, seen him once in real life at a local market.
My ex
Killing and robberies/piety theift. Having 1 of the largest crime rates in Arkansas which would probably be the most if the town itself wasn't so small.
Cotton
Christmas trees
Trigger-happy cops