I spell nerve without the 'e'. Now I only need to dream in subtitles to be REALLY wierd.

This just in, this just in- there is a brittish doccumentarry which, apparently, proclaims Adelaide to be the murder capital of the world! What's wrong with this? In little old Adelaide, we're about the size of a large contry town. Your average foreign person would laugh at the thought of it being the capital of the state. We have a tenth of the murder rate of London and a thirtieth of the murder rate of Washington DC, apparently. And yet we have been named the Murder Capital. Even in Australia, some people call Adelaide 'The City of Fear', as a jest. Hell, I do.
So why is this so ammusing? Because we know it's not true. We don't have more murders then anyone else, we just have the speccie ones when we do. Like the Snowtown Murders, for example (For those unaware, that's when a series of bodies were discovered in barrels in an old bank vault. Real CSI stuff). Some people are actually quite upset by the fact that we've been branded a place to get killed, worried it will effect tourism. It might, but more likely it'll just stop people from moving here. Which a lot of people don't do anyway, because we also have a reputation for being boring.

So lets recap. My city is now famous for- Being near a good wine region, being full of churches, being full of pigs, having many murdres and being boring. Someone should combine them all- "Woman drunk on chardonne murders pig in chapel. Claims boredom as reason".

Yes, I AM rather ammused by this state of affairs. That's because I'm not likely to ever leave this city ((You'll never get outof Adelaide alive!)). But hey, who knows? It's rather one of those places for people to 'come from', although usually after they came from somewhere else. I was born here, and I have a sneaking suspicion I'll die here. Mind you, I may do something in between that.
Perhaps I'll be murdered.

"When there's no one left to leave you, even you don't quite believe you that's when nothing can decieve you."
~That song.
- posted by Washi @ 9:31 am