On the lighter side: Portlandia skirmishes with Brits over who has smallest park
World's Smallest Park Fight Creates Feud Between Brits, Americans
By TERRENCE PETTY 04/12/13 05:36 PM ET EDT
PORTLAND, Ore. — The British and the Americans are quarreling – albeit with tongues in cheek – over territory again, this time over who has the world's smallest park.
One, in Portland, Ore., is essentially a concrete planter, 2-feet in diameter, with soil and some vegetation, and the Guinness Book of World Records says it's the smallest.
The other is about 5,000 miles away, in England. Those guys don't claim to have a physically smaller park – theirs is 15 feet by 30 feet. But they are disputing whether Portland's is a park at all.
What started as two Brits' stunt to drum up publicity for a charity run at their park sparked some cross-pond banter. One online commenter wrote: "If that's a park then my window box should take the title."
Someone who said they were from Portland replied: "Yes, but our park has leprechauns. Does yours?"
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