Every home town, no matter how big or small has its odd happenings. Post your odd news stories here.
At a Phillies baseball game in Philadelphia (my home town):
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/91011609.html?cmpid=15585797
But no worries, he's really a nice guy:
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/dncrime/Alleged_barfer_overweight_but_nice_uncle_says.html
Sigh. I love Philthadelphia.
No stories, but Wolverhampton was declared the 5th worst city in the world.
In my opinion? It totally deserves it. Our single attraction is the spot where we used to have a Burger King.
OUCH! ;) Tell it like you see it Christov!
Quote from: Christov on 17 April, 2010, 11:12:22 AM
No stories, but Wolverhampton was declared the 5th worst city in the world.
Congratulations.
Cardiff makes the Wall Street Journal and gets compared to "Night of the Living Dead".
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704588404575123691166554882.html (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704588404575123691166554882.html)
Even John Humphrys had a go the same week (Caution: Daily Mail link).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1266119/JOHN-HUMPHRYS-How-I-horrified-I-went-home-city-assess-effects-24-hour-pubs--women-bad-men.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1266119/JOHN-HUMPHRYS-How-I-horrified-I-went-home-city-assess-effects-24-hour-pubs--women-bad-men.html)
Apparently Tipperary had a good name at some stage.
The goings on in my home town last year on St. Patrick's Day.
http://www.nationalist.ie/the/Outrage-as-thugs-tarnish-the.5108404.jp (http://www.nationalist.ie/the/Outrage-as-thugs-tarnish-the.5108404.jp)
One of may favourite stories from my home town:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1060040.stm
Santa fighting a market trader - quality!
Quote from: Christov on 17 April, 2010, 11:12:22 AM
No stories, but Wolverhampton was declared the 5th worst city in the world.
I can top that.
My town was voted the SECOND unfriendliest in THE WORLD in an international survey conducted by several universities via the internet.
I think that's a little harsh, but this is the only town where I've been told to 'f*** off' by bar staff, shop counter staff and even, on one hilarious occasion, by a member of the public when I asked him for the right time.
Er - that occasion was hilarious because I followed the remark up with 'right after I'm done with yer mother!'
Quote from: worldshown on 17 April, 2010, 03:14:39 PM
Cardiff makes the Wall Street Journal and gets compared to "Night of the Living Dead".
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704588404575123691166554882.html (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704588404575123691166554882.html)
Even John Humphrys had a go the same week (Caution: Daily Mail link).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1266119/JOHN-HUMPHRYS-How-I-horrified-I-went-home-city-assess-effects-24-hour-pubs--women-bad-men.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1266119/JOHN-HUMPHRYS-How-I-horrified-I-went-home-city-assess-effects-24-hour-pubs--women-bad-men.html)
I can relate to the sentiment of those articles.
Tacky and trashy third rate people.
Well I stay in Bonnybridge,although I've never seen any UFOs but then again I've hardly had a drink in the last ten years.
filip
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnybridge
Kilmarnock - third fattest city in the UK.
I stay in Cumbernauld, shockingly near Flip-r mk2. There's just the middle ground of Castlecary between us. (The Castelecary Hotel does the besk steak pie ever).
Cumbernauld holds a variety of awards for being shit, including worst town and being twice winner of "The Plook on the Plinth" award for the biggest carbunkle in the UK.
"Cumbernauld Town Centre" is a building, not a place. It was made in the 60s from concrete and I don't think it's ever been maintained. Parts of it look like something from Fallout. But with charity shops and Argos. The other parts you can't get to because they are locked behind mouldy doors.
It has dingy, dark car parks with permanent puddles - the sort of place you expect to be kidnapped for Hostel, and parts of it are simply closed off and wrapped off in black plastic sheeting. It's very Clockwork Orange.
(http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Society/Pix/gallery/2005/12/12/1cumbernauld.jpg)
There's a whole sorry tale of local politics and wasted money behind this. What is really sad is that the place was held out a design paradise in the 60s, wiuth people flocking from around the world to see it - the place was hailed as the future.
It's like the fucking wild west round here.
http://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/district/Raiders-target-Horsham-Argos.6233470.jp (http://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/district/Raiders-target-Horsham-Argos.6233470.jp)
My town, Livingston, has a particularly suitable record to hold to its name. The largest haul of GHB ever intercepted in the UK:
http://news.scotsman.com/drugspolicy/UKs-biggest-date-rape-drug.2778562.jp
We are also right next to a famous UFO/alien sighting spot in Dechmont:
http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/scotland/west-lothian/ufos/dechmont-woods-encounter.html
Quote from: Peter Wolf on 17 April, 2010, 08:59:30 PM
I can relate to the sentiment of those articles.
Tacky and trashy third rate people.
I hope you aren't referring to all Cardiffians there, or we'll ask you to step outside ... and drink you under a table .. or something.
Quote from: James S on 19 April, 2010, 11:10:49 AM
Quote from: Peter Wolf on 17 April, 2010, 08:59:30 PM
I can relate to the sentiment of those articles.
Tacky and trashy third rate people.
I hope you aren't referring to all Cardiffians there, or we'll ask you to step outside ... and drink you under a table .. or something.
Not at all.Just that kind of drunken behaviour.Its just the same here as well and its one of my pet hates.
Fair point .. after walking down St Marys street at 3.30am yesterday morning dodging puking and fighting chavs, I wholeheartedly agree.
I know nothing about Cardiff except that these images or similar ones did the rounds in emails a while back
http://ajanlo.kapu.hu/pics.php?d=cardiff
But as has been said - it could be any major town in the UK or Ireland on a Saturday night
Quote from: johnnystress on 19 April, 2010, 01:54:07 PM
I know nothing about Cardiff except that these images or similar ones did the rounds in emails a while back
http://ajanlo.kapu.hu/pics.php?d=cardiff
But as has been said - it could be any major town in the UK or Ireland on a Saturday night
Yuk.
Human Garbage.
That Welsh Tourist Board website has gone downhill.
Quote from: johnnystress on 19 April, 2010, 01:54:07 PM
http://ajanlo.kapu.hu/pics.php?d=cardiff
In fairness, that was one HELL of an episode of Torchwood.
Just after I read this thread there was a fight between the block next door and a pikey van. Van wanted to steal things from the property, neighbours objected - oddly enough.
Much crashing and shouting. Van tried to run one neighbour over when he called the police. Van left, with woman hanging out of it screaming at the neighbours to get their passports and go home (neighbours are European). She didn't look very happy that she had to leave empty handed.
South London, in case you couldn't guess.