What's the dumbest or craziest thing your town/city/region is known for?

@Clbull@lemmy.world 2026-05-03 13:56

[Bristol has been declared the cocaine capital of Europe after researchers examined our sewage and found more traces of the drug than in any of the other dozens of cities they examined. We beat Antwerp, Barcelona, Amsterdam and Zurich...](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bristol-cocaine-capital-europe-uk-most-used-city-sewer-research-mdma-methamphetamine-a8823331.html)

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@TastyWheat@lemmy.world 2026-05-02 14:36

![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6bcc59ef-4dc5-4841-9018-97ad43288730.jpeg) This stupid fucking thing

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@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-02 08:28

My city replaced the green city patch (sorry can't post pictures due to privacy) that was near the town hall and replaced it with natural stone. Before: About a 450 m² area of a few trees, about 3 or 4 big chestnut trees and some smaller brushes. The ground was mostly grassy with a few earth patches in the bushes. In the middle was a seat and rest area in a stone circle and park benches and on either side was a cobblestone path. Something like a mini park. Around it was a small open stream of water and a little waterfall that was about 50cm tall Very beautiful. Now: The whole city center was redone with white/yellowish natural cobblestone (formerly it was mostly rusty red and grey) The park area was fully replaced with a stone desert and 6 or 7 "native trees" (as if chestnut wasnt native lmao) sourrounded by a pebble-like ground. Around it they have built a stone stair case to sit on. Likely for events and such. Besides the park it was done very well. But they mutilated the small patch of greenery around the center with a stone hellscape. I love my town but I will *never* respect that decision. I would really like to show pictures to demonstrate the change for the worse :(

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@blarth@thelemmy.club 2026-05-01 03:15

Well gee let me dox myself.

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@WongKaKui@piefed.ca 2026-05-01 15:04

THE POLICE BOMBED A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD!

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@toomanypancakes@piefed.world 2026-05-01 03:08

In my state its probably the Enumclaw guy who died fucking a horse.

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@actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-01 03:56

The president.

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@besmtt@lemmy.world 2026-05-01 23:33

Cleveland is known for exporting [crippling depression](https://youtu.be/oZzgAjjuqZM?t=32s).

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@halfdane@piefed.social 2026-05-01 05:58

Yearly recurring protests and riots on may 1st. So much so that we now have riot-tourists that only come to experience "throwing a stone at a bank" or "getting arrested for lighting a garbage bin on fire"

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@mbp@slrpnk.net 2026-05-01 15:06

![](https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/a71d5496-fc05-4053-b70a-803a52d05e1e.jpeg)

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@Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 2026-05-02 09:52

The man who invented the toilet lived here.

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@SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2026-05-01 13:35

My Schoolboard trustee never heard of Auschwitz. She became internationally famous. https://www.jta.org/2015/09/24/global/canadian-candidate-apologizes-for-not-knowing-auschwitz-was-death-camp

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@MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-01 12:44

![The Burryman](https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/1ffeabd8-92fc-47f9-8c63-079645cafb04.jpeg)

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@toiletobserver@lemmy.world 2026-05-01 03:42

Hurling millions of people through the air in a tin can at mach .8 and mostly not killing them

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@Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 2026-05-01 03:51

Not my current town, but the town I grew up in. In short, volcanoes. The town in built next to a lake. The biggest lake in the country. The lake is a caldera crater, from one of the biggest volcanic eruptions ever that we know of. And fun fact, it's still slightly active, and several hundred years overdue.

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@muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-02 05:42

Tim Misney is on every goddamn billboard. I’m ready get him as a tramp stamp.

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@Kolanaki@pawb.social 2026-05-01 03:45

There's a reason it's sometimes call Methdesto.

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@No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world 2026-05-01 12:19

Dude I literally live in Florida. But I'm No Florida man.

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@SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-05-01 03:24

Castells - a competition of building human towers as high as possible. It has a long history where I live in Catalonia - there's a good museum of it in the Villafranca team's practice facility :-)

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@STUNT_GRANNY@lemmy.world 2026-05-01 14:25

Bonnie and Clyde robbed a church in my town. Except, not really, it was an early scene in that movie from the '60s. It was a grocery store back then.

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@muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-02 04:41

Reading, writing, route 21

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@lime@feddit.nu 2026-05-01 06:10

people throwing rocks at firefighters

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@blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-01 08:54

Hartlepool hanged a monkey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_hanger