Oniontown Shows Just How Classy The Town Is
Bo Raxo
And here those videos made it look like the place was full of losers...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/07/04/national/a115233D89.DTL&tsp=1
Two teenagers who drove to Oniontown after a series of YouTube videos
portrayed the hamlet as a run-down, backwoods dump were pelted with rocks by
an angry group of young residents, authorities said.
The two 17-year-olds from Mahopac, about 30 miles south of Oniontown,
suffered head and face injuries.
Troopers arrested a 17-year-old from Oniontown on Thursday and charged him
with criminal mischief. Additional arrests were expected, police said.
State police investigator Eric Schaefer said it wasn't the first time
out-of-towners were attacked by local residents.
"The biggest recommendation at this point is for everybody to stay out of
there," Schaefer said. "Anybody that doesn't belong there, anybody that's
not a resident, just stay out of Oniontown."
In one YouTube video posted in May called "Oniontown Adventures," three boys
with foul mouths supposedly drive up to the town. While there, they mock the
poverty they find - giggling at the garbage strewn along the streets and the
abandoned cars in the front yards of trailer parks.
Other videos with different people on camera similarly depict tiny community
as the brunt of jokes.
yD
> And here those videos made it look like the place was full of losers...
>
>
> Two teenagers who drove to Oniontown after a series of YouTube videos
> portrayed the hamlet as a run-down, backwoods dump were pelted with rocks by
> an angry group of young residents, authorities said.
>
> The two 17-year-olds from Mahopac, about 30 miles south of Oniontown,
> suffered head and face injuries.
>
> Troopers arrested a 17-year-old from Oniontown on Thursday and charged him
> with criminal mischief. Additional arrests were expected, police said.
>
> State police investigator Eric Schaefer said it wasn't the first time
> out-of-towners were attacked by local residents.
>
> "The biggest recommendation at this point is for everybody to stay out of
> there," Schaefer said. "Anybody that doesn't belong there, anybody that's
> not a resident, just stay out of Oniontown."
>
> In one YouTube video posted in May called "Oniontown Adventures," three boys
> with foul mouths supposedly drive up to the town. While there, they mock the
> poverty they find - giggling at the garbage strewn along the streets and the
> abandoned cars in the front yards of trailer parks.
>
> Other videos with different people on camera similarly depict tiny community
> as the brunt of jokes.
Not to be a snob about this, but why would anybody go to a town called
Oniontown. Or Hicksville? Don't the names tell you everything you
need to know?
yD -- Brooklyn
Betsy
"yD" <yaff...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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My thought as well. If they want to turn the town around, start by renaming
it something like "Tuliptown" or "Perfumeville".
Betsy--Portland (or, alternatively, Stumptown, Bridgtown, City of Roses, and
today--Rainburg)
yD
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If they stone people, I don't think they'd be happy with Perfumeville,
though I'm a great believer that names are very important -- I once
had a cat I used to warn people not to touch, then I changed his name
from Uncle Joe, to Mr. Joey Goodboy and it worked, he was a much nicer
cat. Of course, being sprayed with shaving cream after he bit my now
husband's finger to the bone may have been an improving factor.
yD
Poe
I don't see what everyone has against being stoned as a ritual welcome
to anyplace. It use to be the norm back in my day to stone me, give me a
beer, and party on.
yD
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Gotta watch my words more carefully. Those were the days, eh?
yD -- takes medication for health reasons
Wild Monkshood
Poe wrote:
I used to keep a snow cone container of gravel in my car for such
occasions....
WM
Poe
Was that like Orange Sunshine, or Mr. Natural? I admit to being a
burnout from those days, have a few memory gaps. Purple Microdot? I
don't recall Snow-Cone or Gravel, tho. But it's all cool, pass the
stogie and re-play the Cheech & Chong cops are at the door thing...
Wild Monkshood
Poe wrote:
I will admit to purple microdot and going to Shoney's breakfast bar the
next morning. Although the Orange Juice was a buzz killer...
WM
JonesieCat
"Bart Bailey" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> In Message-ID:<lrmdncbvvJU_6vPV...@comcast.com> posted on
> Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:20:48 -0700, Bo Raxo wrote: Begin
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>>"The biggest recommendation at this point is for everybody to stay out of
>>there," Schaefer said. "Anybody that doesn't belong there, anybody that's
>>not a resident, just stay out of Oniontown."
>
> taunting impoverished residents anywhere. I'm glad the videographer
> punks got some 'feedback'. This whole thing is like that other group of
> like minded punks who staged the 'Bumfights' events and ended up doing
> time here in San Diego http://tinyurl.com/e4ckf
> I still think Tatiana dealt the best justice however.
How much time did the Bumfight guys do? And didn't some of their subjects
sue them?
jc
Offsho...@nospam.com
This from the utter moron who wanted freedom for a preppie who
murdered a homeless man. Typically, narcissists have an irrational
believe that they're better than other people. Beliefs not based on
"the content of their character" but "on the color of their skin" --
i.e., the other person's appearance, economic standing or some other
superficial characteristic. In the narcissist, appearance issues
translate into grandiose superiority complexes, including the "right"
to commit crimes against inferiors with impunity. Clearly, the losers
here are the teenage nitwits harassing poor people.
Bo Raxo
"JonesieCat" <jonesi...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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They were given community service, blew it off, and were sentenced to jail
as a result. Six months IIRC. Some of the homeless alcoholics did sue,
most notably Rufus the Stunt Bum. I have mixed feelings about this - on the
one hand, the stuff they did was cruel, but on the other these are adults
who consented because they wanted booze money.
The amount of the settlements was undisclosed. I'd bet it was under a
hundred grand, pocket change given the profits, and mostly an easy payday
for the attorneys. Hard to imagine a jury making all that large an award to
someone whose annual earnings are measured in spare change.
Bo Raxo
Chocolic
"yD" <yaff...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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We have a city in South Dakota called Crook City and another one called
Letcher.
I got interested in names of cities from this thread and looked up a few.
There are sure some odd ones out there.
Chocolic
Wild Monkshood
I was in Climax, NC, once in my teen years. I came and went rather
quickly...
WM
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Chocolic
"Wild Monkshood" <Wild_Mo...@windstream.net> wrote in message
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Ha. I see NC also has towns/cities named Erect, Meat Camp, Whynot and Big
Butt.
Chocolic
Chocolic
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>>Ha. I see NC also has towns/cities named Erect, Meat Camp, Whynot and Big
>>Butt.
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Alabama also has an Intercourse. Newfoundland has a Dildo.
Chocolic
Poe
Did you run across this in your googling around:
http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/hall/8701/townname.htm
Kentucky seems to have its share.
I wonder how
LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH, Anglesy,
Wales is pronounced.
JonesieCat
"Bo Raxo" <crimene...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Seems to me most people who choose to blow off comm service get away with
it, glad these didn't. I couldn't watch much of the video, skipped thru it -
and I was prepared to laugh too, but oh man. There was one guy who tattooed
his forehead IIRC? Those poor, alcohol-damaged sods wanted some money, well
okay w me if they got some. Whatever.
jc
Chocolic
"Poe" <hau...@terrible-thought.com> wrote in message
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That's another good site. I ran across this one:
http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Pointless/Cities.html
I notice neither site has the real weird city names in South Dakota. I may
have to submit a bunch of them.
I wonder what that is supposed to mean, the one you mentioned in Wales. Now
that one is stoopid.
Chocolic
yD
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I have a Welsh friend who tried to teach me how to say it, all I can
remember is goo goo goo at the end :)
yD
yD
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I don't know what the name means, but it *is* the longest place name
in the world. I wonder if it means "the longest place name in the
world?" The Welsh are funny that way.
yD
earthage
Yeah Right wrote:
> On , , Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:32:22 -0700 (PDT), Re: Oniontown Shows
> Just How Classy The Town Is, yD <yaff...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> >Not to be a snob about this, but why would anybody go to a town called
> >Oniontown.
>
> I'd assume it was the centre of the onion growing industry or
> producing area.
>
Oniontown is not the town's name, it's a neighborhood of Dover NY.
earthage
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16136218&BRD=1703&PAG=461&dept_id=71557&rfi=6
Some of the town's most forgotten residents are getting some attention
from the state.
The Department of Transportation (DOT) has begun construction on the
new entrance and exit for people living on Oniontown Road, in an
effort to give them a better and safer exit from their neighborhood.
snip
As for the name of the road and neighborhood, since some town
residents consider both as denigrating to residents living in the
neighborhood, changes to that are also in the works.
"It's currently called Oniontown Road. It's being suggested by some
local people that it be changed to Seven Wells Brook Road," Way said,
adding any of those plans is still in the works.
earthage
Bo Raxo wrote:
> And here those videos made it look like the place was full of losers...
>
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/07/04/national/a115233D89.DTL&tsp=1
>
> Two teenagers who drove to Oniontown after a series of YouTube videos
> portrayed the hamlet as a run-down, backwoods dump were pelted with rocks by
> an angry group of young residents, authorities said.
>
> The two 17-year-olds from Mahopac, about 30 miles south of Oniontown,
> suffered head and face injuries.
>
> Troopers arrested a 17-year-old from Oniontown on Thursday and charged him
> with criminal mischief. Additional arrests were expected, police said.
>
> State police investigator Eric Schaefer said it wasn't the first time
> out-of-towners were attacked by local residents.
>
> "The biggest recommendation at this point is for everybody to stay out of
> there," Schaefer said. "Anybody that doesn't belong there, anybody that's
> not a resident, just stay out of Oniontown."
>
> In one YouTube video posted in May called "Oniontown Adventures," three boys
> with foul mouths supposedly drive up to the town. While there, they mock the
> poverty they find - giggling at the garbage strewn along the streets and the
> abandoned cars in the front yards of trailer parks.
Here's the "inspirational" video. I didn't listen to the sound.
Oniontown Road isn't until more than 3 minutes in.
Bo Raxo
"earthage" <eartha...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Does this mean Onionhood is a town? ;)
Thanks for the correction.
Bo
Bo Raxo
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> posted on Sun, 6 Jul 2008 13:59:37 -0700 (PDT), earthage wrote: Begin
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>>As for the name of the road and neighborhood, since some town
>>residents consider both as denigrating to residents living in the
>>neighborhood, changes to that are also in the works.
>
> changed their designator to "City Heights".
> Now as the evening news shows the helicopter blowing overhead
> and bodies being loaded into the back of an ambulance
> the title slide at the bottom of the screen is different.
Real estate people in San Francisco are always making up fake names for
areas to try and either mask a bad rep or gain the cachet of a good
neighborhood (hint: there's no such place as "lower Pacific Heights", but
the oxymoron in the name is good for a laugh).
The best is when they started referring to the crappy old buildings in the
Tenderloin near Nob Hill as the "TenderNob" - I kid you not.
Bo Raxo
earthage
Man charged with DWI in Dover incident
The Poughkeepsie Journal
July 6, 2008
DOVER - A Town of Poughkeepsie man was arrested on a drunk driving
charge in Oniontown Friday after what police said was an altercation
stemming from a YouTube video about the hamlet.
The 39-year-old man was on his way home from his job at a facility
for developmentally disabled adults in Wassaic, state police said,
when he took a detour into Oniontown and used profanities while
speaking to some of the residents there. The residents responded by
throwing rocks at the man's Cadillac, state police said.
The man was charged with a misdemeanor count of driving while
intoxicated. He was arraigned Friday night in Town of Dover Justice
Court, sent to jail and released on $1,000 bail Saturday. He is due in
court July 17.
State police said the incident was the latest of several such
altercations in Oniontown since a video critical of the hamlet
appeared several weeks ago on the Web site YouTube.
The Journal typically does not print the names of those charged with
misdemeanors.
ima_b1t...@yahoo.com
The complete meaning of the town name is 'St Mary's church in the
hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the church of St
Tysilio of the red cave'.
But the town isn't called the long ass name its just called Llanfair
my husband is from england he kind of schooled me on some of the
things about this town. The town sign only reads
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll...
:D.. and that means The Mary church by the pool near the white hazels