[QUOTE="stupid4"]St. Louis, Missouri 4. Being the meth capital of the country 5. Being the STD capital of the country 6. Being #2 in crime. Sounds fun!
Super Bowl was here a few years ago... NBA all star game was here this year... NFC Championship was hear this year since our team was in it... the American Idol winner was from here a few year ago(Jordan Sparks)... the presidental election brought a lot of media attention here(John McCain)... Yeah, we've gotten enough national attention to last us for at least a while...
Well, one of the best universities in the world is in my city (that being Yale), and I remember there was this big national uproar when our mayor proposed giving illegal immigrants i.d.'s.
Yes. Stillwater, Minnesota: 1) When: Fargo, Grumpy Old Men, and Grumpier Old Men were shot here 2) Racial Prejudices sparked fighting at the High School 3) When a registered sex offender posed as British Royalty at the High School 4) When a semi took off half th top of the bridge Now, a city NEAR me garnered national attention when one of our bridge's collapsed over the Mississippi River. Some of you might remember that. It was all over CNN
we were on the front page of cnn.com a few months back (pocono's in PA) a smallish area. Some guy cut up some lady and and put here in 5 different trash bags and dumped them willy nilly on the highway. Sick digusting freak... They should do the same thing to him.
We have lots of sports people from here, along with bands such as Korn, we are the third most polluted city in the country even thought there are only 400,000 people who live here, and we've had numerous mass murders occur here.
in the UK, there was a fiasco in 2002 regarding A Level results being suspiciously low for number of subjects, and it was widely speculated the government fixed the results to fight accusations that A Levels were becoming too easy...
anyway, my old school was the first one to report it. it was the first one that started it all off... so there were BBC News cameras all over the place for months. if you saw a BBC News report around that time, chances were it was recorded at my old school.
that's probably as famous as my little nowhere town has ever been.
Super Bowl XXXIX took place in Jacksonville, FL a few years back. Man the city streets were crazy that week. And every year the Florida/Georgia game and the Gator Bowl are held here.
My city has not only gotten National attention it has gotten International attention. Being the capital in the North of Ireland, during the troubles alot happened.
Sydney, Australia? Hmm... I can't se why we'd get any attention...
But if you don't mean the general metropolitan area, and more specifically the smaller "cities" within capital cities... then no, not really. We have the largest shopping mall in the southern hemisphere, and it was also where the Government of Australia was during colonisation... but nothing international that I know of.
Edit: National? Oh, well, yeah. Since it's the largest CBD (central business district--think downtown) aside from Sydney's CBD... yeah, we make news.
my city hosts the named (and damn well named) biggest party in the world, 3 days in a huuuuuge spot (around 4 miles in diameter or something) with bands, freelance artists, caping, radical sports, lots'a drinking and fun overall, so yeah, in september, we get a lot of attention (the people that comes to the party comes close to surpassing the number of inhabitants here so yeah...
Yes. Even though Fargo, North Dakota is boring and relatively unimportant, it has gained national attention a few times, including when the movie Fargo was made, the flood of 1997, and the flood of 2009.
I'm willing to bet on that. Hopefully it's been about something other than gay marriage or hippies. What event/people do you guys think of (other than what I just said) when you hear "San Francisco"?
Yes. Even though Fargo, North Dakota is boring and relatively unimportant, it has gained national attention a few times, including when the movie Fargo was made, the flood of 1997, and the flood of 2009.t3hrubikscube
You survived a flood??? (Sorry, I don't read too much news.)
You survived a flood??? (Sorry, I don't read too much news.)thequietguy
Yeah, the river here floods every spring, but it was especially bad in 1997 and now it's even worse this year... It just started to go down earlier this week, but it's going to go up again pretty soon...
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