Sunkin, here are 2 videos to help with local tourism.

[Nortechnorth]

No charge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysmLA5TqbIY

[stainless]

Lmao!

[Ratickle]

I can't decide which one is better for attracting tourists. The one should get a lot of tourists from Detroit......

[YankeY]

Holy Chit! That was hilarious.

[catastrophe]

LMFAO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sick bastage

[Chris]

Both of those videos sugar-coated the hell out of it.

The "our economy depends on LeBron" isn't far off.

[Scarab KV]

Too funny

[Chris]

The first thing Clevelanders always jump at is the old "river on fire" thing. That was decades ago. There's no industry anymore along the Cuyahoga to dump anything into it. But if they tell you it's clean, they're full of S... The city just south uses the river for their sewage system overflow. They've been dumping raw sewage into the river for many years. A year or so ago, a couple hikers were wading in the water. One slipped and cut his foot. He died from the infection. The river runs through the center of a national park. There are signs posted all along it warning visitors.

Welcome to the rust belt.

[Nortechnorth]

The funny thing for me is that I used to go to Cleveland semi-regularly as a tourist. I'd go to the Rock Hall and walk around downtown (in the daylight) and carry on to Cedar Point later in the weekend. They did a nice job cleaning it up down there. I always had a great time. I did decide to follow the map (before GPS) out of town a different way when heading back to Toronto once. I had followed 2 along the lake every other time. But the map showed another highway (6) or (20) that went east through town. So I followed it. Turned out to be a street, not a highway. And all of a sudden I was in a WARZONE. Windows boarded up in all the storefronts, people selling drugs on the street, guys with really baggy jeans all over the place. I pulled up to a stoplight and a guy was slapping a girl around on the corner and a cop is standing across the road just watching! I am sitting in this van with Canadian tags and a pretty young lady with me. I didn't stop for another stoplight for another mile or two, green or red! The "don't slow down in East Cleveland or you'll die" part has some truth.

[.38Special]

And now you don't even have Brady Quinn!!!

[Chris]

And now you don't even have Brady Quinn!!!

He's almost certainly assured of a Superbowl ring now.

[Wrinkleface]

those gotta leave a mark somewhere, even if it's skidmarks in your shorts!!!

[Nortechnorth]

I spend 95 percent of my time in Ontario or Florida. As far as the Detroit part goes, watching the following video, I have a hard time believing that the footage is shot on the same continent that I live on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JbGx...eature=related

[Chris]

There's an initiative in Detroit right now to demolish approximately 50% of the city and turn it into agricultural land.

[phragle]

There's an initiative in Detroit right now to demolish approximately 50% of the city and turn it into agricultural land.

Must go hand in hand with the "grow your own pot" radio commercials that air constantly on the Detroit radio stations...

[Expensive Date]

There's an initiative in Detroit right now to demolish approximately 50% of the city and turn it into agricultural land.

What can they grow there Christmas tree's.With there winter kinda a short growing season.

[fund razor]

There's an initiative in Detroit right now to demolish approximately 50% of the city and turn it into agricultural land.

Step one has been completed.

[Wrinkleface]

Step one has been completed.

[TCEd]

I spend 95 percent of my time in Ontario or Florida. As far as the Detroit part goes, watching the following video, I have a hard time believing that the footage is shot on the same continent that I live on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JbGx...eature=related

Some of those buildings have been empty for 20-25 years. The Republicans had their convention in Detroit in 1980 and the city put window dressing on a bunch of those empty buildings to make them appear occupied. It's a gritty town but you still can have a fun time there, just need to know where you're going.
Cleveland and Detroit both have great medical centers.

[Chris]

Cleveland and Detroit both have great medical centers.

The military used to send surgeons to hospitals in our fine cities to learn trauma surgery. If you want to learn how to treat gunshot woulds, you gotta go to where there's gunshot wounds.