Bizarre, Freaky & Crazy Street & City Names

[Gentleman8]

Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipu kapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu is in New Zealand:






Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapiki maungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu is the Māori name for a hill, 305 metres high, close to Porangahau, south of Waipukurau in southern Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. The New Zealand Geographic Placenames Database, maintained by Land Information New Zealand, records the name as "Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuaki tanatahu", a hill at 40.3480 S, 176.5321 E. It has gained a measure of fame as one of the longest place-names in the world. It is featured in a Mountain Dew jingle and it is also in the 1979 single "Lone Ranger" by British band Quantum Jump. It is the subject of a 1960 song by the New Zealand balladeer Peter Cape, as well as Hardcore DJ's Darkraver and DJ Vince in the song 'Thunderground'.


You get triple points in Scrabble for it!

[JPersat]

Cut And Shoot, Texas

And in San Antonio, there is actually a street called, "Cant Stop"

[swatty]

This one in Queensland


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[pz93c]

Originally Posted by diablojota

This name must have been created during a night of drunken debauchery. The city founders couldn't understand what the others were saying after several cups of mead.

Nah, just Welsh.

[Taffi Abernathy]

Interesting signs

[Gentleman8]

Originally Posted by Taffi Abernathy

Interesting signs

Decsions, decisions..