Nazi group gets Adopt A Highway..

[Analog]

BRIGHTON, Colo. - It's a small sign igniting a big debate. An official state of Colorado Adopt-a-Highway placard announcing that a one-mile long stretch of US Highway 85 is sponsored not by the Boy Scouts or the Lions Club, but by the Nazi Party of Colorado.

Members call themselves the National Socialist Movement. They are inspired by teachings of Hitler, believe interracial relationships and homosexuality should be crimes, and they want to start a separate all-white country.

The Adopt-a-Highway program, they say, is a good PR move for them and a recruiting tool.

"We want to let them know that we're here and we do good things," Unit leader Neal Land told FOX 31 News. "We're upstanding citizens, try to be good people, and try to portray ourselves that way."

When the Nazi's first applied for the stretch of highway just south of Bromley lane in Brighton, the Colorado Department of Transportation called to say thanks, but no thanks.

But the law, it turns out, was on the Nazi's side.

http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-nazihighway-012410,0,5473783.story

 

[Colt45]

i remember hearing the same thing happening on the west coast somewhere, years ago... not sure what happened with it though.

 

[Jeff7]

they are inspired by teachings of hitler, believe interracial relationships and homosexuality should be crimes, and they want to start a separate all-white country.

"we're upstanding citizens, try to be good people, and try to portray ourselves that way."

DOES NOT COMPUTE. DOES NOT COMPUTE.



Edit: Damn vB and its anti-caps filter. Capital letters are the master case.

 

[techs]

Maybe they just love the white lines on the road?

 

[Spineshank]

It sucks but it is what it is.

 

[Analog]

 

[Arcadio]

They'll just give up when they find tons of litter, shit, and graffiti on their stretch...

 

[Sea Moose]

i remember hearing the same thing happening on the west coast somewhere, years ago... not sure what happened with it though.

We even had a thread about it
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=302054&highlight=nazi+adopt+highway

 

[DrPizza]

It'll probably turn into the most littered stretch of highway in the continental U.S. (excluding NJ - sorry NJ, but when I came out of some tunnel from NYC into your state - wow (just that one particular area of NJ, not the whole state)) because people will want to make them look bad.

 

[Red Squirrel]

lol I had no idea there still was nazis. I thought that was long over after WW2 and hitler's death.

 

[Bignate603]

They need to name that stretch of highway something like the 'Martin Luther King Jr' highway and put up huge signs. A big sign that says 'Nazi Party of Colorado proudly cleans the Martin Luther King Jr Highway' would piss them off quite a bit.

 

[geno]

Highway 88

 

[Red Dawn]

lol I had no idea there still was nazis. I thought that was long over after WW2 and hitler's death.

I guess you've never been to Orange County

 

[highland145]

Wonder if some group like the eco-terrorists would get the same attention if they signed up for highway duty?

 

[Red Squirrel]

I guess you've never been to Orange County

Only place outside of Canada I've been is Detroit.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Hey, as long as the road's clean

 

[3chordcharlie]

Something like this pops up every couple of years. Nothing to worry about really, the Nazis will never actually clean up the highway, and the sign will be down shortly.

 

[maziwanka]

who the fuck cares. when you give them attention they get what they want. ppl never learn.

 

[Greenman]

I'm going to guess no one much cared when NAMBL got their stretch of highway.

 

[Onita]

I'm going to guess no one much cared when NAMBL got their stretch of highway.

Nope, because that wouldn't make as good of headlines. If they do what they are supposed to w/ the highway, I couldn't care less who sponsors it.

 

[Nik]

i remember hearing the same thing happening on the west coast somewhere, years ago... not sure what happened with it though.

It happens all the time, especially around the Spokane / Cour d'Lane (sp?) area.

 

[meltdown75]

life is a HEILway, i'm gonna ride it all night long.......

 

[Nik]

life is a HEILway, i'm gonna ride it all night long.......

 

[meltdown75]

hehe

when i used to play BF 1942, i'd be the Nazis just so i could say "YOL!" over and over again. and jump around like an idiot. great game

 

[Miramonti]

Skinheads picking up trash on the side of a highway sounds dangerous.

In other words, this would be a great stretch of road to rent a billboard displaying one of Marissa Miller's latest photo shoots.