America's Craziest Cities

sophia5

Nice display of stupid.
It's a FUN piece you blockhead!

gee zuss christ on a cracker... watta fkn maroon...

sophia5 have you ever been to the natti? I'm thinkn' probably not...

As if we needed proof of the East Coast bias of the media, please note that the "weird" attraction listed for Riverside, CA, is 256 miles away. It's like saying, "Visit New York -- they've got a weird pointy stone thing dedicated to George Washington!"

I don't know but we have a bumper sticker that's been popular around here for decades 'Keep Santa Cruz Weird' - I can't tell you that it was actually coined here, but there's not another town in the country that fits it better.
Santa Cruz Califorina

Well the problem here is that everyone is biasing their opinions based on what they think the most eccentric city is, which is understandable. Obviously New Orleans and New York, etc is going to be considered higher than the others in this area, and that is represented in this article. If you take a look, you will notice New Orleans scored poorly in stress and drinking, while New York scored poorly in drinking, which took them down in the rankings. Cincinnati did best because of it's even spread through all the categories.

I have been living in Cincinnati for about 4 years now (here for college), and it has been a good ride so far. I have had crazier experiences elsewhere, but they were for special events.

New Orleans: I was there for the Sugar Bowl, where University of Cincinnati (my school) got demolished by the Gators. This also included New Years Eve... Needless to say, this was an awesome and ridiculous event, but I was surrounded by Cincinnati fans (who were sooooooo much more rowdy than the Gator fans BTW, just a little to back up our craziness), and everyone was pretty shit-faced. Again, that factor could have just been the drunk-asses from Cincy crowding up the place.

Anyways, a few points to drive home Cincinnati's position on this chart:
1) We had our own fucking super hero! That's right, a caped crusader was traversing the streets of Cincinnati, stopping crime in style. (His name was Shadow Hare, look him up.)
2) Ochocinco lives here.
3) Bootsy Collins is from here.
3) New York's Naked Cowboy is from here. (http://www.nakedcowboy.com//legend.htm)
4) We have had a history of one of the most racist Police forces around (you have to be crazy to be racist!), although they are improving dramatically in the past few years.
5) Foxy Shazzam is from Cincinnati. They are a up-and-coming rock band, and they are fucking crazy. Look them up.
6) Apparently we also house the most dangerous neighborhood in the USA (based on crime rates per capita), which is a mere mile from the campus of UC.

Just because people don't know Cincinnati as a ridiculous place doesn't mean it isn't. Who would think to look in Ohio for this type of shit?

Wrong, Denver enjoys over 300 days of sunshine a year. Just don't tell anyone.

I'll try to remember that Cincinnati is "cold, cloudy and wet for most of the year" this summer when the thermometer on my patio displays 100 and the sky is blue and cloudless. Oh, and spring has arrived here. Just saying.
Also, we have a hilarious Fools' Day Parade involving lawnmower precision drill teams, lawn chair snapping drill teams, fake docs in scrubs doing dance numbers, etc -- well worth a visit!

Back in the seventies I was a State employee in Pennsylvania and was at a function that Frank Rizzo attended. He smiled at me, grasped my hand firmly, and said I was doing a great job. I had to boil the hand several times to get the sense of having touched pure evil off it.

Philadelphia's greatest institution after the Mummers is the Mutter Museum, which exhibits weird, grotesque, and disquieting abnormal body parts gathered in the last two centuries. They put out an annual calendar. And who can forget Mayor Goode's decision to firebomb a tenement where a loony commune was holed up to "smoke them out," killing a whole bunch of them?

Philadelphia wins the weird contest hands down for another reason-- they aren't even trying to be weird. They just are.

if food was a consideration then I hate to break it to you, New Orleans wins. We have stuff that will blow your "cheese steak" and pretzels with mustard out the water.

Aslanleon

Former State employee of Penn?
You know of the "Mummer Parade"?
Then I wonder, where does the "right-lean" commentary coming from in your posts I see all up and down The Daily Beast?!
Will wonders never cease?
I think not...

p.s.

I have a photography artist collection. I have one from a photo artist who took an image from the Mummers Parade (mid-80's). I found it in an exhibition in Sacramento. It's so cool ass, it's the only color photo in my black-n-white collection.

Having lived in both Cincinnati & Philadelphia, I would say Philly might win by sheer human mass, given the greater population, but Cincinnati is no slouch: remember, they elected Jerry Springer mayor, they made Pete Rose & Marge Schott, and just last month a Cincy psychiatrist attacked a patient with a sword

As a recent immigrant to Tampa, I agree... I'm still getting used to driving down the street and noticing a strange pattern of buildings as I go along -- church, KFC, strip bar, church, Sonic, strip bar, church, BK, strip bar... it's all fast food, religion and pasties! Then again, I don't know if that's so much crazy as depressing.

Another point for why we are crazy?

This guy above me!

As a girl, I feel insulted that someone thinks the mayor throws like one. The mayor throws like a blind raccoon. A girl would have at least come within some sort of vicinity of home plate.

Um, Cincinnati is not in the bible belt. Most of the city is Catholic. Are you sure you live here?

It's a ranking based on the per capita number of shrinks. I had to check it too, the wording is misleading.

i agree. and don't forget the drag revue "them leftover bitches."

I love New Orleans nuttiness, but without the Mutter Museum and the Mummers, it's still number two, but a real strong number two. After all, New Orleans relies on tourists to up the level of nuttiness. Philadelphia exports it. And who can fault the concept of little black specks of vanilla bean in the ice cream, without which no true Philadelphian would eat it? South Street can stand up to the French Quarter every day, and all with home grown moonbats.