Amarillo, Texas billboard answers "Liberals keep driving" one

[packman]

[vercetti2021]

1. My fucking city man!

Love it!

[TexasTowelie]

3. The attention about the sign was effective--see my post below. nt

[vercetti2021]

9. So stupid honestly

I've lived here for 28 years and I've never seen such shit like this before

[TexasTowelie]

2. I ran across an article last night

that indicates the "liberals keep driving" sign is going to come down.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/06/20/texas-billboard-tells-liberals-keep-driving/716756002/

[Cha]

18. Gracias, TexasT!

[blogslut]

20. It's down

And the "mystery customer" who paid for it was refunded. The man that owns the billboard company is a wingnut maga bigot but maybe that's all coincidence.

[Leith]

4. That "Liberals Keep Driving" Billboard Was on I-40?

I've driven on that that stretch of road. It's in cow country and it stunk like nothing I've ever smelled before or since.

This liberal kept driving until I got to New Mexico and the jaw-droppingly beautiful scenery there.

[Shrike47]

8. Ever driven I-5 in California past Kettleman City? Gives a whole new insight into stink.

[A HERETIC I AM]

15. At least the prevailing wind at that spot is west to east.

I've driven past that Harris Beef Co. feedlot scores of times myself. The worst was shortly after a rain on a VERY hot day with west flowing winds. Enough to make your eyes water!

It's not the only large feedlot near an interstate, to be sure, but it is memorable if nothing else!

[Solly Mack]

5. I spent a memorable hour in Amarillo a long time back.

There was a murder at the truck stop I pulled into to gas up and use the bathroom. I came in at the same time as the police, who were both ahead and behind me as I turned into the business.

Right there - and I mean as soon as I turned - at the pumps - was a man hanging out of the cab of his truck, throat slit from ear to ear.

Someone had opened the door to the cab to get his attention and he fell out.

I wanted to get the heck out of dodge but needed gas and had to go even more so.

Took about an hour to get gas, use the restroom, and navigate the police who were everywhere by this time. They even asked me questions.

I was on my way to Colorado.

I've been back that way since. I mean, it couldn't happen twice in my lifetime, right?

[deurbano]

11. Yikes!

[Solly Mack]

13. The entire trip was memorable.

[vercetti2021]

23. Yeah our crime is pretty bad

It's mostly robberies and drugs. But we do get those occasional murders.

[Solly Mack]

29. Went back after that. No problems.

People were friendly.

[vercetti2021]

30. Meet up next time?

I can show you the best places to eat here.

[Solly Mack]

31. If I ever make that run again. I was traveling from GA to Colorado around 3 times a year

for a few years.

Always went the Raton Pass, so always went through Amarillo. Shortest way at the time. More than 20 years ago.

My first trip, when all kinds of weird things happened, never repeated itself. Thankfully.

There was also a serial rapist on the loose at rest areas along I-20 at the time and I traveled that way for some of the trip.

I saw a shootout between police and some suspects at a closed gas station/food store just inside Colorado.

I was punch drunk just before the pass and started singing "Home on the Range" and got to the deer and antelope part when, no lie, actual antelope jumped in front of my truck. Didn't hit them. I braked and simply watched. Antelope jumping as they ran directly in front of the truck's lights. I was wide awake after that.

I stopped along the pass to watch the sunset - spectacular! The sun looked to be in a ballet with the mountain ridges, slowly flouncing its rays like a billowy cape over the range, gradually disappearing until it completely disappeared. Truly beautiful.

It was the strangest road trip of my life.

I was moving to Colorado and traveling alone in a moving truck. After the move, I took the same route when I traveled back to my home state for visits.

But if I ever head that way again? I would welcome the chance to meet a local and see more of the area. It seemed an OK place.

[vercetti2021]

35. Amarillo is an ok place

Sounds like you had quite an adventure that only a movie could do. Seriously lol.

But if you do come this way someday, be sure to message me. I know there are a few DU'ers in the Texas Panhandle area, some here in Amarillo, some in Lubbock.

But Amarillo has it's ups and downs. The local government is a complete clown show, mirroring the Dump presidency mainly. Crime is bad, but more in the theft and break ins. Word of advice. Never leave anything in your car while staying at a hotel anywhere in the city. That is a huge problem as of late. People breaking into cars in hotel parking lots.

[curlyred]

6. Wish I had seen this!

Just got back from visiting my dad. Did not see my batshit crazy right wing relatives this trip, just cannot handle them anymore.

[catrose]

7. In Amarillo? I'm amazed but thrilled.

[MagickMuffin]

10. THE PEOPLE OF AMARILLO

I guess the people paid for this to strike out against the BIGOT in town!


WTG, Amarillo

[yorkie77]

12. I lived in Texas 35 years ago

Texas is Texas and this is ( hate to quote the Orange Despot) Huge, especially in that part of the state.

[Equinox Moon]

14. Fantastic! Now... next action... use that kind of money to fund progressive media

We need ongoing, none stop, progressive media for everyone to hear. Change the narrative in Texas and all across this land.

[Honeycombe8]

16. Photo shop or real? Hard to know these days. nt

[vercetti2021]

17. It's real I live in Amarillo

Drove by it today

[Cha]

19. Cool, vercetti!

[vercetti2021]

22. Yeah very!

I also attended Pride today here and everywhere was Beto shirts, buttons, sticks and everything. I got my friend signed up to vote and for the first time she is voting for a Democrat. She's a Libertarian, but she absolutely hates Cruz.

[Cha]

32. Great day for You and America!

[vercetti2021]

33. It was

And I meant to say stickers not sticks lol I got a gay pride Beto bumper sticker

[Honeycombe8]

24. That is so awesome! That actually cost someone some bucks! Yay!!!!nt

[blogslut]

21. Real

http://www.newschannel10.com/story/38496053/new-billboard-in-amarillo-says-texas-is-for-everyone

[Honeycombe8]

25. +1. nt

[TheMastersNemesis]

26. Next Time They Get Hit By Deadly Tornado Let Them Suffer & Die.

No response like Puerto Rico.

[blogslut]

27. I think you misread the story in the OP.

Look again.

[asiliveandbreathe]

28. TX has been advertizing "Come to Texas" -it seems to me it would behoove them to

counter ANY bias towards anyone...For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. So appropo - beyond physics...Sir Newton - third law of motion...fitting here...

[Awsi Dooger]

34. Good for Amarillo...my grandfather grew up there more than 100 years ago

He rode wild horses in the Palo Duro Canyon in his youth. I loved listening to his stories when I was a kid.

He joined the Coast Guard in Connecticut late in his teens, met my grandmother, and never returned to Texas. But he did keep in touch. I often listened to his ham radio conversations with relatives.

I've driven I-40 countless times back and forth from Las Vegas to Miami. I frequently stop at the Palo Duro Canyon and eat lunch, thinking about my papa and what it looked like in Amarillo not far into the 20th century, when he was there.

But recently I concede I've been stopping at the Furr's Cafeteria on the west side of town. Furr's departed Las Vegas so I seldom see them any more. I love buffets. Amarillo had an older style Furr's in the center of town but that closed several years ago. The one on the west is in a newer area and is a more modern buffet with isolated tables instead of a standard cafeteria line.