The bus to the town of Hel on Poland’s Baltic coast has long been popular with tourists. But some Christian conservatives have protested against the use of a number signifying the devil on a bus leading to a place that sounds like the word “hell” in English.
Sixty nice.
I wish they’d redesignated it as Highway 999.
It’s the 21st century and some still bow to superstitions…
To be fair, while I’m sure it’d be an interesting ride in itself, many of the sightseers were taking that bus route to that destination because of the superstitions.
The US had a Route 666 for 77 years.
Our standard state license plates are AAA-NNNN, I was driving behind someone with xxx-6666; was he extra devilish? It got me thinking - there are 20 666 numbers for each letter combo; I wonder how many times someone has balked when they go to get in their new car & see triple-6 on their license plate, after all of the paperirk is complete?
This is good news. But I heard that it wasn’t the number that annoyed people. It was that the road was paved with good intentions.
As a kid I remember occasionally passing through Hell on our way to visit other parts of Michigan. They had a cool little gift shop where you could get trinkets with red devils on them and mugs and t-shirts that said things like “I’ve been to Hell and back”
I’ve driven through Michigan. And taken the train to Chicago. I’m not saying it is a question of semantics, but other parts of Michigan…
If you ever find yourself in Hell, keep going.
Tom Scott goes to Hell.
Excellent coinage!
Almost there!
Half Hell, North Carolina - Wikipedia
from the area’s early reputation for illegal activities, particularly moonshining. Finally, the name may have been a reference to the midway point—“half way to hell”—for local farmers traveling to Southport to pay their taxes.[3][4]