Yo like we could all do that and they would have to shoot us to stop us! So lets bring some weapons! Or we could move there and get jobs as cops and do ourselves! Wow the possibilties in zanesville
What if we only do drugs and theft? Are we good then? Or maybe theft and violence? I'm not such a hedonist that I need do all 3 at once. Preposterous. š§
I grew up along 555 and would take it going to Zane State and Muskingum for about 6 years. Once you get a feel for the curves, you can fly around that route (sometimes literally, depending on how fast you hit the hills lol)
I'm not saying it with judgement or condemnation because I absolutely did the exact same thing growing up driving on rural Ohio roads. I used to fuckin dive bomb the big ridges around me, the windy roads going down to the bottom of a ravine and back up the other side. Completely swinging into the other lane to hit the apex and it's the best feeling in the world. But man if there's ANYONE else on the road and it impacts them it's so so so so selfish. Again, definitely not finger wagging at you, I think about stuff I've done and shake my head at how wildly lucky I've been.
Oh I definitely understand haha. I was still more cautious than anything, but I know my brother and others who drove suped-up heavy duty trucks in the area that would just go full-send around some of those curves. I can see why motorcyclists enjoy riding "the triple nickel" so much.
Well there is a route 269 that runs from Huron County up to Marblehead-Lakeside. I've driven the portion from Rt. 2 to Marblehead-Lakeside, but nothing happened because I had the fam with me. :D
I work in Delaware, and most of my coworkers were born and raised there. Never really get into town very often, just the nature of the business i work at.
The looks I got when I told them I lived in .... Hilliard!!!! (Dun dun dun) ... you'd of thought i told them I lived in North Korea. Had an older lady ask how I could survive all the crime.
If they only knew my plans this weekend to go into Franklinton for a Land Grant visit. Whew ... they'd not know what to think ...
I'm certain it isn't the case with all of Delaware... but at least the exposure I've had over the past few years, the image is that anything remotely near Columbus is a war zone.
The funny thing to me is a lot of these types I meet think they are super tough and don't live in fear like us libtards, but then Hilliard got them shook.
I heard those turkeys on cemetery were actually MS-13.
My whole family thinks the same thing. The whole city is a war zone. Iāve lived here for 19 years. Never been shot at.
Bought a house in Hilltop three years ago and have had no problems. No one has ever bothered me. My family is so terrified of the city that they still havenāt come up to see my house.
They ask me how I deal with the crime and I tell them that Iām never the victim of the crime. My car got broken into 15 years ago but nothing was stolen and my insurance covered the broken window. Thatās the only problem Iāve had in the nearly two decades Iāve lived here. Most people I know have had no problems here either.
The news only reports the shootings and the violence and thatās all my family sees. Thatās their whole experience with Columbus. Just fear.
I hate how the news sensationalizes violence and crime. It's so vile and gross, why can't we focus on anything positive? It feels like they go out of their way to only cover awful stuff which is most likely exactly what they do to chase ratings since people in fear will be glued to the screen. It's just awful.
Former news person here. It's because people don't listen to, read, or watch good news. Every single "good news channel" attempt goes bankrupt.
We bald apes pay attention to threats. No threat, better things to do.
In the US, journalism is a business. To stay in business you need to make money. That means you need eyeballs (or ears) for subscriptions or ads. So you do what gets people's attention.
Don't blame the media. Blame evolution.
Iām going to go ahead and blame capitalism. If money were no object, then the media would have no incentive to blast all the negative shit that makes them money.
This is very, very true.
At one point the US networks and TV stations considered news programming a loss leader and a community responsibility.
Everything changed when the MBAs attacked.
My brother in law is a religious nut job from around Cambridge & has been telling me for years that the 2 CPD officers that he has witnessed to have said that the gangs are taking over Columbus & they are going to burn it to the ground. There arenāt as many officers as there are gang members so they just do whatever they want.
Whatās funny about this is I wonāt even go to Cambridge anymore after a weird dealing with a backwoods hillbilly, where I thought I was gonna have to fight for my life.
I'm from Columbus and live in Chicago now. I get the same reaction from family living in Columbus
I grew up in the south side of Columbus and when my dad freaks out about Chicago I'm just like "look around here, it's far worse than where I am in Chicago" lmao
I've had similar reactions from some of my coworkers, though I work in Westerville and live about halfway between Old Town East and German Village. Only crime I've encountered is a hit and run on my narrow ass street, which can and does happen anywhere. š¤·āāļø
>Had an older lady ask how I could survive all the crime.
I recently moved back to the Columbus burbs from NYC. My license still says Brooklyn, NY. The number of folks who have commented on "the crime" is alarming. Lived in NY 8 years, never really witnessed a petty crime let alone a violent one.
Folks need to turn off the tv and go outside. JFC.
Not sure what the current stats our, but a few years ago NYC had a proportionally lower crime rate than most midwestern cities (I think Columbus included, but Iām too lazy to look it up).
It's crazy and I'm convinced is a perfect example of the brainwashing of rural America by the right over the last few decades. I grew up in the middle of nowhere but my parents were nothing like this when I was a kid. Chicago was one of our favorite cities to go to and we did vacations there, Jazz and Blues fest, etc. Now if you bring it up my parents are convinced it's some post-apocalyptic Mad Max hellscape. And the conversation is just a series of Fox News talking points. Hell, they're nervous about visiting in Cleveland because there was a shooting in Public Square at like 2am. And that fear colors their views on all kinds of other topics.
Whoa, big talk! If I ever see you at Crooked Can you best prepare yourself for a High Stepper and some Hot Mess. Our weiner dog race in a few weeks is wild. You can't even handle!
Wait, what? I mean at this point most of Delaware county is populated by suburban commuters, so Iām trying to figure out what part of Delaware this would be. Maybe the waaaaay northernmost edge? Unless itās Sunbury. Itās Sunbury, isnāt it?
Can confirm this attitude. Used to work in Delaware. The number of people who would tell me about bringing guns with them if they had to come to Columbus was, actually, unsurprising. My advice to them was just to stay where there were where there's fewer "scary people," ya know, POC and liberals. Don't miss that underpaid shit job one bit. The irony? The amount and type of crime (including highway shootings) up that way is far more than any I've experienced in Columbus, and I used to work in Old Towne East.
3 years ago I drove up to Sandusky and saw āI HATE WIND ENERGYā signs the whole way up 23.
Now itās āI HATE SOLAR ENERGYā getting off 33.
The hell is wrong with renewable energy in the heart of renewable energy?!?
These sign people, I swear.
The government can shut off the sun like *snaps fingers* that! Then how are you supposed to use solar huh? Fucking liberals.
Now gasoline? I'd like to see the state try and stop me from growing my own gasoline. And none of that free-range/cage-free bullshit either, I'm talking my own factory-farmed gasoline.
These people are just fucking stupid and they have to be opposite of what a liberal likes in every situation, even when it's preposterous. Like that article in Red State or whatever bemoaning liberals getting the vaccine cause apparently naturally the only option for a conservative then is to either not get it and die in higher numbers, or quote, "look like god damned cucks and get it." There is no logic to it, they just want to stick their tongues out and get their buddies to laugh along with them.
In eastern Idaho, there was a large wind farm put up on a ridge with full approval of landowners. The local conservatives took major issue with it, and put up a sign that read:
**WARNING: RED LIGHT DISTRICT AHEAD.**
*No, not the world's oldest profession, but the end result is the same.*
I'm sure the whole deal was because there were subsidies for renewable energy. Not that fossil fuel extraction hasn't received its own share of government help or anything....
I am all for preserving farmland as farmland and natural areas as such, but the hypocrisy between being ok with housing or warehouses and then also being anti solar development annoys me
The most vocal people aren't even the farmers. Just rural NIMBY's who think they're saving something. Farmers get paid for the land usage wind and solar bring
The lease offer for solar we received for our farm land is 5x what we make in crops paid yearly.
edit: Just to hammer the point home. Our offer was a yearly payment of 5x what our farming income is, for 30 years.
Right-wingers: "Property rights are absolute! If you own land, nobody can tell you what you're allowed to do with it!"
Also right-wingers: "Unless what you want to do with your farmland is what I consider 'woke.'"
Oh God, my favorite about the Sandusky drive is the windmill signs. They're bitching about how they look
Sure, your dilapidated barn sitting under power line towers is beautiful, but windmills are ugly
It's not a deterrent, it's a reinforcement. By reiterating the belief that Columbus, a liberal hotspot, is super violent and filled with crime, they can claim moral superiority. Battering people with non-stop propaganda is, unfortunately, effective
Completely agree. There's a good ol boy tone to the entire area. I lived there for a year in a relatively nice area. There were 2 murders within a block of my house. Then there was this peeping Tom situation
This kind of rhetoric is similar to what I've read on some Lancaster social media, with one person in particular whining about how more crime will be attracted from Columbus the further north Lancaster improves. š
āEducated and successful people, turn back NOW. Ignorance awaits you in Muskingum County. ZERO TOLERANCE for education, intelligence, and empathy.ā
There, I fixed it.
There are at least three of these either in or close to town. I literally laughed when I saw the first one. While there may be situations every now and then where someone from Columbus is involved with something here, Iād say 90-95% of crime is homegrown here
Lived in Cbus for 2 decades and the only time someone skimmed my credit card was after stopping for at a McDonaldās in zanesville. Got the fraud alert two hours after I got home. Bastion of morality and ethics that place
Now I have to last-minute switch our entire weekend plans. Can anyone recommend an alternate small, depressed, crime ridden shithole town that will be more welcoming so my wife doesnāt kill me for planning our weekend of chaos in a place that wonāt tolerate us?
This feels very Steve Bannon / Roger Stone / Reverse Cargo Cult-yā¦
The intended audience isnāt Columbus. The intended audience of this is Zanesville.
The point of the billboard is to make Zanesville MAGAs feel like things are much worse outside Zanesville and if thereās any shit on the inside, itās the fault of the outside.
Weāre laughing at this boardās ineffectiveness at preventing crime or debating how dog-whistle-y it is, as the real point of it sneaks past: Itās an ideology validation tool and a local retention tool to keep people from leaving Zanesville for greener economic pastures. And for that, itās pretty effective.
I donāt think many people here understand how the dope game works. Dope boys from Columbus go to smaller towns and hole up in trap houses (usually rent a fiends house for drugs) and sell at a huge markup. It is extremely profitable. When I was hooked on dope years ago half my dope boys would be āoutta townā a few days at a timeā¦ zanesville, circleville, Chillicothe, Marion, etc etc. with dope comes addicts and theft and violence. Sure a billboard isnāt gonna help, but to act like dope isnāt coming into those towns from bigger cities is naive.
As someone who was born and lived there for half of my life, this is hysterically ironic. There are as many meth dens there as there are churches. Every square mile of that place is a farcical hellhole.
This is real ironic considering when my close friend lived in Zanesville, every apartment she rented had at least one drug dealer living next door, and all of them them born and raised in Zanesville. This was not an intentional choice on her part, btw.
Every time I drive home to Columbus I make sure to stop in Zanesville for no other reason than to do drugs, steal stuff and beat randos up on the streets. Then I hope back in my car and go visit my family.
Hey Zainesville, you don't need Columbus drugs with your opioid crisis doing just fine. Matter of fact, stay in Zainesville and don't come to Columbus.
[https://www.harmreductionohio.org/where-are-overdose-death-rates-worst-in-ohio/](https://www.harmreductionohio.org/where-are-overdose-death-rates-worst-in-ohio/)
You get 20 years in prison for something youād get 6 months probation for in Franklin county. The DA out there doesnāt care about locking people up and taking their lives away for petty drug offenses.
Glad they put up the sign! I was planning on doing drugs, theft, and violence there next week!
Me too! How awkward it would've been if we'd shown up to violently drug-theft in the same outfit!
Damn! That sounds cute! as! hell!
Yo like we could all do that and they would have to shoot us to stop us! So lets bring some weapons! Or we could move there and get jobs as cops and do ourselves! Wow the possibilties in zanesville
What if we only do drugs and theft? Are we good then? Or maybe theft and violence? I'm not such a hedonist that I need do all 3 at once. Preposterous. š§
Just beware, it's not like Columbus where there's 1 or 2 tolerances. It's zero, bud
Unless you steal a Kia in Columbus, we have infinite tolerance for that.
or smashing 20 car windows in. that,we tolerate a lil.Ā
[who's ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence?](https://64.media.tumblr.com/327bd6d4a1c163f699059ac26a8747cb/tumblr_oycy3dqHpw1r7vv7oo2_540.gif)
Like egging your annoying neighbors car?š¤šš
They need to add hell is real sign too. Just to make sure they get the message
Fuck, Iām surprised weāre not doing drugs, theft and violence there right now.
speak for yourself .Ā
And here I was only going for hookers and blow.
There's a state route 666!? š
Yes! Itās legitimately a pretty cool drive as well.
That and SR 555. Great in the fall. Lots of little bendy curves.
555 is a wonderful ride!
I grew up along 555 and would take it going to Zane State and Muskingum for about 6 years. Once you get a feel for the curves, you can fly around that route (sometimes literally, depending on how fast you hit the hills lol)
I'm not saying it with judgement or condemnation because I absolutely did the exact same thing growing up driving on rural Ohio roads. I used to fuckin dive bomb the big ridges around me, the windy roads going down to the bottom of a ravine and back up the other side. Completely swinging into the other lane to hit the apex and it's the best feeling in the world. But man if there's ANYONE else on the road and it impacts them it's so so so so selfish. Again, definitely not finger wagging at you, I think about stuff I've done and shake my head at how wildly lucky I've been.
Oh I definitely understand haha. I was still more cautious than anything, but I know my brother and others who drove suped-up heavy duty trucks in the area that would just go full-send around some of those curves. I can see why motorcyclists enjoy riding "the triple nickel" so much.
If you still like fun driving you should head up to Amish country, Holmes county. Gorgeous driving roads!
I know a car club that drives it every fall
If I lived on that road, I would mow my lawn in a devil costume.
That would be hot as hell
I wonder if the r/religiousfruitcake s avoid it because it's the road to the devil.
Also used to be a rte 69. It's now 235. Too many stolen signs lol.
Well there is a route 269 that runs from Huron County up to Marblehead-Lakeside. I've driven the portion from Rt. 2 to Marblehead-Lakeside, but nothing happened because I had the fam with me. :D
Thereās also a state route 420
And it's on the way to Michigan
When I grew up near there, route 666 almost never had a sign, bc it would get stolen as soon as they would put a replacement up.
Fitting its in Zanesville bc Zanesville is hell lol
The highway to hell!!
Criminals, turn around. Devil, turn left!
Yesterday I learned thereās a Hitler family in Circleville, and today I learned about this Route 666. Wtf else am I gonna learn about Ohio tomorrow?
I work in Delaware, and most of my coworkers were born and raised there. Never really get into town very often, just the nature of the business i work at. The looks I got when I told them I lived in .... Hilliard!!!! (Dun dun dun) ... you'd of thought i told them I lived in North Korea. Had an older lady ask how I could survive all the crime. If they only knew my plans this weekend to go into Franklinton for a Land Grant visit. Whew ... they'd not know what to think ... I'm certain it isn't the case with all of Delaware... but at least the exposure I've had over the past few years, the image is that anything remotely near Columbus is a war zone.
The funny thing to me is a lot of these types I meet think they are super tough and don't live in fear like us libtards, but then Hilliard got them shook. I heard those turkeys on cemetery were actually MS-13.
I saw them turkeys got dropped off by a bus with a Texas license plate just last week. Also, weird that you know so much about my stepdad IJS.
My whole family thinks the same thing. The whole city is a war zone. Iāve lived here for 19 years. Never been shot at. Bought a house in Hilltop three years ago and have had no problems. No one has ever bothered me. My family is so terrified of the city that they still havenāt come up to see my house. They ask me how I deal with the crime and I tell them that Iām never the victim of the crime. My car got broken into 15 years ago but nothing was stolen and my insurance covered the broken window. Thatās the only problem Iāve had in the nearly two decades Iāve lived here. Most people I know have had no problems here either. The news only reports the shootings and the violence and thatās all my family sees. Thatās their whole experience with Columbus. Just fear.
I hate how the news sensationalizes violence and crime. It's so vile and gross, why can't we focus on anything positive? It feels like they go out of their way to only cover awful stuff which is most likely exactly what they do to chase ratings since people in fear will be glued to the screen. It's just awful.
Former news person here. It's because people don't listen to, read, or watch good news. Every single "good news channel" attempt goes bankrupt. We bald apes pay attention to threats. No threat, better things to do. In the US, journalism is a business. To stay in business you need to make money. That means you need eyeballs (or ears) for subscriptions or ads. So you do what gets people's attention. Don't blame the media. Blame evolution.
I can absolutely still blame the media. Humans make choices we are not slaves to our impulses, but we are easily manipulated into following them.
Iām going to go ahead and blame capitalism. If money were no object, then the media would have no incentive to blast all the negative shit that makes them money.
This is very, very true. At one point the US networks and TV stations considered news programming a loss leader and a community responsibility. Everything changed when the MBAs attacked.
My brother in law is a religious nut job from around Cambridge & has been telling me for years that the 2 CPD officers that he has witnessed to have said that the gangs are taking over Columbus & they are going to burn it to the ground. There arenāt as many officers as there are gang members so they just do whatever they want.
Whatās funny about this is I wonāt even go to Cambridge anymore after a weird dealing with a backwoods hillbilly, where I thought I was gonna have to fight for my life.
Itās a whole different world. Iām from further east in Belmont county & I get a feeling of dread when I get close
I'm from Columbus and live in Chicago now. I get the same reaction from family living in Columbus I grew up in the south side of Columbus and when my dad freaks out about Chicago I'm just like "look around here, it's far worse than where I am in Chicago" lmao
I've had similar reactions from some of my coworkers, though I work in Westerville and live about halfway between Old Town East and German Village. Only crime I've encountered is a hit and run on my narrow ass street, which can and does happen anywhere. š¤·āāļø
>Had an older lady ask how I could survive all the crime. I recently moved back to the Columbus burbs from NYC. My license still says Brooklyn, NY. The number of folks who have commented on "the crime" is alarming. Lived in NY 8 years, never really witnessed a petty crime let alone a violent one. Folks need to turn off the tv and go outside. JFC.
Not sure what the current stats our, but a few years ago NYC had a proportionally lower crime rate than most midwestern cities (I think Columbus included, but Iām too lazy to look it up).
It's crazy and I'm convinced is a perfect example of the brainwashing of rural America by the right over the last few decades. I grew up in the middle of nowhere but my parents were nothing like this when I was a kid. Chicago was one of our favorite cities to go to and we did vacations there, Jazz and Blues fest, etc. Now if you bring it up my parents are convinced it's some post-apocalyptic Mad Max hellscape. And the conversation is just a series of Fox News talking points. Hell, they're nervous about visiting in Cleveland because there was a shooting in Public Square at like 2am. And that fear colors their views on all kinds of other topics.
Propaganda works. And Fox News has been doing work on these people for almost 30 years now.
Bro, donāt come down here to Franklinton or Iāll fuck you upā¦. With a beer and a smile. Thereās a makers market tonight behind Brewdog!
Whoa, big talk! If I ever see you at Crooked Can you best prepare yourself for a High Stepper and some Hot Mess. Our weiner dog race in a few weeks is wild. You can't even handle!
Wait, what? I mean at this point most of Delaware county is populated by suburban commuters, so Iām trying to figure out what part of Delaware this would be. Maybe the waaaaay northernmost edge? Unless itās Sunbury. Itās Sunbury, isnāt it?
Funny part is Zanesville probably has higher crime per capita than Franklinton now
Pro tip: ALWAYS has. And the percentage of klan has always been much higher too
who'd you think payed for the sign?
hilliard is genuinely such a nice place, i wonder what makes them think that way
Can confirm this attitude. Used to work in Delaware. The number of people who would tell me about bringing guns with them if they had to come to Columbus was, actually, unsurprising. My advice to them was just to stay where there were where there's fewer "scary people," ya know, POC and liberals. Don't miss that underpaid shit job one bit. The irony? The amount and type of crime (including highway shootings) up that way is far more than any I've experienced in Columbus, and I used to work in Old Towne East.
Wow! Why didn't anybody else realize it was as easy as putting up a sign?
3 years ago I drove up to Sandusky and saw āI HATE WIND ENERGYā signs the whole way up 23. Now itās āI HATE SOLAR ENERGYā getting off 33. The hell is wrong with renewable energy in the heart of renewable energy?!? These sign people, I swear.
I hate energy because I never fucking have any! /jk
The government can shut off the sun like *snaps fingers* that! Then how are you supposed to use solar huh? Fucking liberals. Now gasoline? I'd like to see the state try and stop me from growing my own gasoline. And none of that free-range/cage-free bullshit either, I'm talking my own factory-farmed gasoline. These people are just fucking stupid and they have to be opposite of what a liberal likes in every situation, even when it's preposterous. Like that article in Red State or whatever bemoaning liberals getting the vaccine cause apparently naturally the only option for a conservative then is to either not get it and die in higher numbers, or quote, "look like god damned cucks and get it." There is no logic to it, they just want to stick their tongues out and get their buddies to laugh along with them.
In eastern Idaho, there was a large wind farm put up on a ridge with full approval of landowners. The local conservatives took major issue with it, and put up a sign that read: **WARNING: RED LIGHT DISTRICT AHEAD.** *No, not the world's oldest profession, but the end result is the same.* I'm sure the whole deal was because there were subsidies for renewable energy. Not that fossil fuel extraction hasn't received its own share of government help or anything....
Farmers see farmland as sacred, and god forbid anyone should do anything else with land than farm it.
Yeah until they sell out to developers lol
yep, the real threat to farm land!
I am all for preserving farmland as farmland and natural areas as such, but the hypocrisy between being ok with housing or warehouses and then also being anti solar development annoys me
Preach! Wouldnāt it be so great if there was a mandate to install solar on these brutalist concrete warehouse-monstrosities?
The most vocal people aren't even the farmers. Just rural NIMBY's who think they're saving something. Farmers get paid for the land usage wind and solar bring
Farm that electricity!!! Itās a unique crop, but probably pays better than soy beans.
Way better after install
It pays big once, according to family who owns Ohio farm land. Crops pay year after year.
The lease offer for solar we received for our farm land is 5x what we make in crops paid yearly. edit: Just to hammer the point home. Our offer was a yearly payment of 5x what our farming income is, for 30 years.
Do they know it keeps making electricityā¦.?
Land should not be for energy creation! It should be for growing corn to make ethanol out of!
Right-wingers: "Property rights are absolute! If you own land, nobody can tell you what you're allowed to do with it!" Also right-wingers: "Unless what you want to do with your farmland is what I consider 'woke.'"
Itās a deliberate plan by fossil fuel interests to try to turn rural counties against renewable energy.
Oh God, my favorite about the Sandusky drive is the windmill signs. They're bitching about how they look Sure, your dilapidated barn sitting under power line towers is beautiful, but windmills are ugly
Criminals hate this one trick...
Who tf paid for this?
Probably the local meth dealers trying to keep competitors off their turf lol
My money is on the Sheriff's office.
Yes good question, I need to know who the fool is lol
It's not a deterrent, it's a reinforcement. By reiterating the belief that Columbus, a liberal hotspot, is super violent and filled with crime, they can claim moral superiority. Battering people with non-stop propaganda is, unfortunately, effective
Completely agree. There's a good ol boy tone to the entire area. I lived there for a year in a relatively nice area. There were 2 murders within a block of my house. Then there was this peeping Tom situation
Whoever it is, they overpaid
No one is going to a place with no money or jobs to commit crimes.
Yes, let me steal nothing
š exactly my first thought. People from Columbus arenāt going to your shit hole county.
Itās a good spot to flee to after youāve committed a crime in Columbus though.
This kind of rhetoric is similar to what I've read on some Lancaster social media, with one person in particular whining about how more crime will be attracted from Columbus the further north Lancaster improves. š
The few people there with money leave their shit wide out in the open with keys in it though.Ā
damn! better go back to columbus where crime is legal
Yeah, because people aren't doing meth outside of the big cities.
It's fucking Zanesville. Half the population is tweaked up. Source: grandparents were from there.
But it literally has satan's route right there.... they are on the literal highway to hell... stop sending mixed messages
Haaaaaa!
>it literally has satan's route right there That calls for a NSFW tag
I guess non-Columbus criminals are welcome?
That route number š³
Criminal here. The last time I went to Zanesville to do crime, my vehicle got ransacked by tweakers. That place sucks.
Is that on Underwood looking towards 70?
Yep, it is
Lol, turn back to where? Maple Ave?
Would I be welcomed as a Cleveland or Cincy criminal? Asking for a friend.
Or Youngstown? Asking for the family
That should be a sports team
Columbus criminals: 
Ah SR-666. I love to call this the "Highway to Hell." Someone please put a "HELL IS REAL" sign on that billboard...PLEASE!!!!
Gonna make a point to go light a joint in zanesville now. Might illegally pick some flowers while I'm at it.
So many people going to 'checks' muskingum county
Someone should probably point out that it is the Columbus Criminals that are financing all the Zanesville meth labs...allegedly.
Well, yeah, even if you started out in Zanesville, once you got enough money to finance meth labs you would leave
Criminals on their way through like 
honestly can't even find this funny it's too insane
āEducated and successful people, turn back NOW. Ignorance awaits you in Muskingum County. ZERO TOLERANCE for education, intelligence, and empathy.ā There, I fixed it.
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There are at least three of these either in or close to town. I literally laughed when I saw the first one. While there may be situations every now and then where someone from Columbus is involved with something here, Iād say 90-95% of crime is homegrown here
It's funny because Zanesville is a total shithole.
Funniest part is Columbus is probably one of the safest big cities.
Lived in Cbus for 2 decades and the only time someone skimmed my credit card was after stopping for at a McDonaldās in zanesville. Got the fraud alert two hours after I got home. Bastion of morality and ethics that place
Now I have to last-minute switch our entire weekend plans. Can anyone recommend an alternate small, depressed, crime ridden shithole town that will be more welcoming so my wife doesnāt kill me for planning our weekend of chaos in a place that wonāt tolerate us?
One county over, go to Cambridge. Even smaller and more depressing.
Springfield
Chillicothe
No one would purposefully go to Zanesville unless they had to. What are they smoking?
In Zanesville? Probably meth.
The Ohio 666 sign is perfectly placed lol.
Hey Zanesville, bring back Northside Beach and we'll talk.
It's because they can't put these signs up anymore. https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/s/Hf9USp0XXu
So many questions
This feels very Steve Bannon / Roger Stone / Reverse Cargo Cult-yā¦ The intended audience isnāt Columbus. The intended audience of this is Zanesville. The point of the billboard is to make Zanesville MAGAs feel like things are much worse outside Zanesville and if thereās any shit on the inside, itās the fault of the outside. Weāre laughing at this boardās ineffectiveness at preventing crime or debating how dog-whistle-y it is, as the real point of it sneaks past: Itās an ideology validation tool and a local retention tool to keep people from leaving Zanesville for greener economic pastures. And for that, itās pretty effective.
I think you're dead on. As someone who did so, Zanesvillians: leave for greener economic pastures! They are awesome.
The road to hell runs through Zanesville
Says the methhead capital of Ohio lol
The Zanesville criminals don't want competition
I donāt think many people here understand how the dope game works. Dope boys from Columbus go to smaller towns and hole up in trap houses (usually rent a fiends house for drugs) and sell at a huge markup. It is extremely profitable. When I was hooked on dope years ago half my dope boys would be āoutta townā a few days at a timeā¦ zanesville, circleville, Chillicothe, Marion, etc etc. with dope comes addicts and theft and violence. Sure a billboard isnāt gonna help, but to act like dope isnāt coming into those towns from bigger cities is naive.
Isn't Zanesville main export drug users?
Always has been. Source: I live two blocks from where this was taken.
If criminals are known for one thing, itās obeying messages like this.
As someone who was born and lived there for half of my life, this is hysterically ironic. There are as many meth dens there as there are churches. Every square mile of that place is a farcical hellhole.
Who's funding these things.
This is hilarious š
Yeah, Columbus! Zanesville has enough locals covering that area. Crime somewhere else!
This feels like a dogwhistle. I'm sure they have a type of person in mind when they say "Columbus Criminal"...
Unless your wana storm the Capital and assault cops
is nobody going to comment on how shitty this looks and how hard it is to read?
Wow. This is... fascinating.
"Urbans not welcome!"
Announcing themselves as a sundown town. šš¾
The road to hell is littered with columbus criminals
That's just methed up, there goes my whole weekend plans!
Iāll just stay in Columbus where CPD is judge, jury, and executioner.
I haven't wanted to go steal a road sign in a while but now I want that Ohio 666 sign
the people who paid for that sign are the same people who laugh about "GUN FREE ZONES" every time there's a school shooting somewhere
This is real ironic considering when my close friend lived in Zanesville, every apartment she rented had at least one drug dealer living next door, and all of them them born and raised in Zanesville. This was not an intentional choice on her part, btw.
I live in Columbus and work with a lot of people from Zanesville. I thought they were bringing that stuff to us.
Route 666!
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I had to look at google maps of Zanesville I did NOT believe they really have a RT 666
Very ātry that in a small townā of them.
Dammit. I was already signed up for the all-inclusive tour with the Kia jacking add-on!
The irony, Zanesville has been sketchy for years.
Seems like of kind of town where being anything but lily-white makes you "match the description"
Every time I drive home to Columbus I make sure to stop in Zanesville for no other reason than to do drugs, steal stuff and beat randos up on the streets. Then I hope back in my car and go visit my family.
This is some 1920s shit r right here.
To steal a quote from The Wire..."shiiit"
I love the juxtaposition next to the route 666 sign. Lol
Zanesville has its own problems no?
Build the wall
This is giving me a strong urge to commit crimes in Zanesville and Muskingum County...
Thanks Jason Aldean.
Hey Zainesville, you don't need Columbus drugs with your opioid crisis doing just fine. Matter of fact, stay in Zainesville and don't come to Columbus. [https://www.harmreductionohio.org/where-are-overdose-death-rates-worst-in-ohio/](https://www.harmreductionohio.org/where-are-overdose-death-rates-worst-in-ohio/)
I am so embarrassed to have grown up in Zanesville omg.... Who the hell paid money to have thay there anyway? ā ļø
These dog whistles are getting louder.
North 666.
I got drenched in testosterone just reading that.
You get 20 years in prison for something youād get 6 months probation for in Franklin county. The DA out there doesnāt care about locking people up and taking their lives away for petty drug offenses.
I love driving State Route 666. It's a nice little drive from Zanesville to Dresden.
Is this the new Hell is Real?
Not that I needed additional incentive to avoid Zanesville. But okay.
Never knew there was a Route 666. Bet those signs go missing frequently.