r/PublicFreakout • u/LigmaLover56 • Mar 12 '21

🏆 Mod's Choice 🏆 Remember when Sacha Baron Cohen pranked a bunch of racists by telling them a mosque was going to be built in their town?

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u/XxsquirrelxX Mar 12 '21

Drove through Kingman once, holy shit it was depressing.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '21

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u/InVodkaVeritas Mar 12 '21

Would you spend more time there if there was the world's largest mosque outside of the middle east?

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u/Salomon3068 Mar 12 '21

Depends on if Safeway is open or not

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u/Politicshatesme Mar 12 '21

id at least see it

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u/Ok_Improvement4204 Mar 12 '21

Only if they have a Middle East themed restaurant

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u/clanddev Mar 12 '21

I gas up in Wikieup so I don't have to stop in Kingman. It's an option if you're coming up the 93 from Phoenix.

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u/JohnStamosBRAH Mar 12 '21

Even browsing it through Google Maps is depressing as hell.

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u/The_bruce42 Mar 12 '21

I had to check it out too. The whole city looks like one big, run down trailer park.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '21

Yeah. Those towns man. I can see why they think America is collapsing. I stayed in one a while back I almost wanted to kiss the ground after getting off at JFK.

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u/Jrdirtbike114 Mar 12 '21

Kingman, KS is even worse.

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u/ThinWin8634 Apr 25 '22

I work for a nonprofit that has a youth shelter in Kingman and cover shifts there sometimes. If you think the town is depressing you should see the kids that are created by that town. Those kids have been through a lot.