Oniontown the New Compton
85Apparently Poor People Get the Interweb Too
ONIONTOWN HAS HAD IT. After another visit from out-of towners eager to mock the tiny community, state police investigators are saying, in effect, "Nonresidents, you don't have to go home, but you gotta get the hell outta here."
Police asked the two teens, a pair of 17-year olds from Mahopac, N.Y., if they had come to mock the town and then post it online, and they were forced to admit they had indeed. Instead they were pelted with rocks by an angry group of local residents, which apparently the filmers had not expected to be a part of their online video. Future nonresidents have a common destiny: pain.
A female passenger suffered injuries to her head and face, and the male driver also got what was coming to him.
Oniontown, a small, Poughkeepsie-area hamlet about 30 clicks north of Mahopac--no stranger to abandoned cars and trailer parks and muttonchop sideburns--has become the butt of online jokes and YouTube's current absorption. In "Oniontown Adventures," one of the pioneers of the genre, three foul-mouthed boys drive through hurling epithets during a tour through the town's run down section, which is all of it. As they muse upon the fact that their physical welfare may be in question, the cameraman records his frontseat friend observing the McDonalds Snackwrap© in his lap, exclaiming, "This is what I call the 'last supper,' " still giggling. "Jesus ain't got nothin' on this!" They hadn't seen urban poverty on this scale since Clarice Starling accidentally stumbled upon Buffalo Bill in Belvedere, Ohio. "The biggest recommendation is for everybody to stay [the fug] out of there," state police investigator Eric Shaefer told reporters. "Anybody that doesn't belong there, anybody that's not a resident, just stay out of Oniontown."
Sheesh. Police say it wasn't the first time different people have been attacked and they say they know the Dutchess County community has become the brunt of jokes online. But did they deserve it? The name of the community was already Oniontown. Could their life get any worse? What were they thinking, naming the town Oniontown anyway? Do they cry all the time? Is there a giant rock carving of one in the middle of the town square? It is not yet known whether Julia Childs or Emeril had anything to do with it.
From the beginning this lonesome village has been a laboratory for aspiring YouTubers, a stern school majoring in just one subject: the Science of Being Made Fun Of.
Seen from the back windows of the various cars that have "toured" the area, it looks like a perenially overcast, garbage-strewn, unsun-flooded portrait of rustic despair, a place of no activity, impressive only because the eye does not expect to see such dire straits in this part of downstate New York. No one loiters in front of their trailers and falling-apart wooden houses with chipped paint on them. They're all inside: bitter, xenophobic, religious; clinging to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them. Many dirt paths and roads appear to be the only access into the place; there were no paved streets. Other YouTube titles include "A Day in Inbred Town" and "Return to Fishkill."
How did the residents get wise that their town was becoming a national laughingstock? "I'm from Oniontown," one of the residents recently posted, calmly and simply. "I'm the one that first tipped my family off about all this youtube [stuff] 18 months ago....Since then about 30 cars of our 'fans' have had a meeting with the scrap yard, along with many 'fans' having a visit to the ER. As one that has an interest in making sure this does not elevate to something more 'harmful,'.....if you don't have any business in Oniontown, you don't have any business in Oniontown."
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Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I'll try to do that.
It is great that others take such great pleasure in making fun of others that are less fortunate,...It Really showcases that Love thy neighbor rule,...And you won't be happy till you push these people to the point of fighting back. and you wonder why the ones you deem as misfits end up killing you for liking to kick them,....So glad that people feel the need to demean others and torture them,...Hey that is what school shootings are all about. And then you turn and blame your victims for your death,...See it goes to prove that you are so much better and wiser than they are,....So keep kicking those that you feel that you think are better than,...and once you have pushed them far enough and they feel their life is no longer worth living,...one of two thing will happen,....they will take their own life to end their suffering you have caused them or they will take your life to make it stop,...Either way you are the ones responsible for a life being destroyed. All in good fun right? Well laugh it up chuckles,...Cause the people that you torment today are likely to be the ones to end you life tomorrow. Where is the respect for others? Where is the compassion? where are your Morals,...Well I guess you are showing them. What a sick world in which we live. Hell is alive and well. Thank you for promoting this kind of behavior and using it to better your life and make yourself feel so powerful and so much better than others.Sure you will reap great rewards when it comes time to be judged by your God.
...So basically a bunch of retarded frat boys drive through, screaming and honking their horns at 3:00 AM, and they're surprised when they get bricks through the window? They seem to think that because they're spoiled upper-middle-class pricks, they're allowed to do whatever they want to these people, and nothing bad will happen because hey, they're just a bunch of inbreds, right?
I hope more of these highschool rejects go to Oniontown, and I hope they get killed.
I just think it's funny that the people of this small community got wise to what was going on. At least it seems that they did anyway.
I live about 25-30 minutes from Oniontown, and it has always been a local area of legend. It was legend to us that it formed from escapees of the local mental hospital after it closed. This rumor is in fact false, as Oniontown was around before the closing of the hospital, which is also a freaky looking place in Dover. Oniontown was actually formed by farmers who stayed on an onion farm after it went bankrupt. Oniontown is a small community with many RUMORS since. I personally have heard about Oniontown long before the Youtube fiascos and rock throwings, and I have never ventured in there. The point is that this is a small community that is not really cut off as Youtubers believe. The kids attend the local Dover schools, and I'm sure they are nice people. This little community is really not much different from other upstate New York communities consisting of run-down housing and trailers. Oniontowns exist everywhere, and the town actually opted to change the newly famous "Oniontown Rd" to "Seven Wells Rd." however this didn't happen. Really what people need to see is the fact that many Americans are living in poverty and can't afford the finer things in life. Dutchess County must have over 100 trailer parks around and they range from very nice retirement communities to the backwoods places we have recently seen highlighted. The point is, the Oniontown residents are annoyed. I would be annoyed to if someone came driving into the Town of Poughkeepsie and had something to say. The point is that rich spoiled Westchester kids need to find something productive to do. Stop mocking those who don't have Mommy's and Daddy's that can buy anything for them. This rich yuppies should stay in Westchester and out of Dutchess County. I can't wait till one of these spoiled rotten kids gets hurt with something other than a rock, then they might really heed the warning to stop harassing those less fortunate than themselves. For now they are lucky it was only rocks, because up here in Dutchess County the right to bear arms is fully practiced in many households, and Oniontown is not excluded from that. So heed the warnings the police and Oniontown residents have already given. Stay out or something bad will happen. Go spend Mommy and Daddy's money at the mall.
I'm from the area (Dutchess) and i've heard the horror stories. I understand that Oniontown is a private community, but still, the citizens should do more to bar the uninhibited violence directed toward unwelcome visitors. Honestly, a friend of mine went up there without preconceptions with the idea of having a chat with town high ups and his tires were slashed. C'mon.
So poor people have the right to throw bricks through cars that drive down their roads? They have the right to smash kids in the face with fucking rocks just because theythought they were "up to no good"
Fuck that. These cocksuckers better hope they never fuck with the wrong kid because let me tell you, a hillbilly and his shotgun don't got shit on a gangster with an ak-47.
I don't feel bad for these people living in "poverty" not one fucking bit. I come from a family with not a lot of money but I made the choice to get off my ass and better myself by going to college. Can't afford college? FINANCIAL AID, SCHOLARSHIP, LOTS OF PROGRAMS THIS GREAT COUNTRY HAS TO OFFER. Tell those lazy, drugged out, alcoholic, inbred onion townies to get off their fucking lazy asses, and find a damn job. There is no excuse for living in poverty I don't give a shit what anybody says. They just don't have the will power and the right mind set to get up and do something about it. Instead they'll just sit on there asses and collect a fucking welfare check...that come out of MY FUCKING PAYCHECK....we're working our asses off to take care of "poverty"...fucking bullshit...stop being lazy, comb your fucking hair put on a nice shirt, spray some cheap cologne on and find a fucking job...If I ever make a trip to Onion Town and one of those hicks says a word to me i'll wrap their fucking mouth up with a fucking baseball bat, and then sit down and have a nice talk with them on how to GAIN respect, if they want it "oh so bad".... I SPEAK THE TRUTH, AND FORGIVE ME FOR CUSSING BUT IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO GET A POINT THROUGH TO IGNORANT PEOPLE... =)
i give props to you above me your absolutely right, its their own fault for being so poor, get a job. I am from westchester county and i dnt like fucking people saying were just rich yuppies cause were not at all we have a right to explore places is we want to you cnt tell us so stay out of some place, yes i agree going through there at 3 acting like assholes isnt right but pelting someone with rocks isnt either. if i went there and any of those asshole tried to even throw a pebble at me id fucking strangle them with there own fucking shoe lasses and watch them suffer cause its not fucking right you can explore other peoples ways of living without having a severe consequence. they can get on their knees and beg for mercy but there not going to get it cause they are ignorent and wont accept other peoples ways of living. im going there soon like this tuesday, lets see what will happen....
what the hell is this oniontown?? i got bored surfing the internet and stumbled on oniontown. i saw the internet videos and i HAVE driven through it before when i got lost, but i never had any idea what it was about. i am 22 and kinda poor and have been on my own for a while now, but i try to dress nice so i could be mistaken for a wealthy kid causing trouble. when i got lost going through there, no one bothered me, but if they did they'd be in for one nasty surprise. i am licensed to carry a firearm and i carry an extremely powerful magnum revolver and have a tactical shotgun in my vehicle at all times. i've read the online posts and stories and these impovershed "inbreds" have no right to assault or possibly kill some just they're being mental midgets and causing mischief. if one of these backwoods people try and hurl a rock through my windshield to try hurt or kill me, then i'll hurl a slug right at their head and kill one of them because i WILL defend myself if my life is in danger. forget being afraid, i will take someone out if they try to put my life in danger, i learned that the hard way growing up in the "hood".
listen buddies, i live in westchester and ive experienced the phenomena of what they call Verplanck. Very rarely should u go thru verplanck, especially if u are of color, this oniontown place intimidates many but at the same time is very appealing for kids who like to get high and do something fun like drive thru hicknation,however.....there is always places u just do not enter if ur not a resident, for instance, park hill in staten island, if u aint from there, u dont go there its just simple as that unless u have a bloodlust or u like being fucked with or hurt kind of liek why the fuck would u go to oniontown unless u wanted to stir up some shit. i cant lie, i really wanna go there but u bet ur ass i aitn fucking bringing a camera instead of my 38 special, and why make fun of them u should admire them for staying a community this long so what if theyre inbred some ppl just live that way and thats all they kno....cant blame verplanck or oniontown for being inbred thats how they were bred and thats how they will continue to breed
i live in carmel NY, aaaand idk if u thot that Fishkill was a type of insult but its the town its closest to, just to make it clear. I'm not sure if u were sayig "Return to Fishkill" was an insult though.
lol oniontown isnt a town.
oniontown road is the name of the street the people live on in dover plains.
i live a half hour away.
they changed the street sign because people kept going.
for those of u saying good i hope these kids get killed, maybe they wouldnt go if these rancid coward rednecks never showered cars with rocks to begin with, there would be nothing to see. had they minded their own business, and not tried to be tough guys, nothing would have happened.
for us living near oniontown, its causing alot of unease, and not many people are happy with the hostility it presents.
thats all i have to say.
If you go in their...you better trade your baseball bats and paintball guns in for a real firearm. A fair amount of those folks carry heat...I'm not kidding. THAT is why it is best to stay away.
I actually went through Oniontown....at first I wasnt sure that I went there b/c there was no sign that said where we were, however we kept driving and there were run down houses and chickens running everywhere...and we were like maybe this is it and we should leave b/c it was getting really sketchy...then the whole road ran out and started throwing rocks at the car...and one guy even took his foot and stomped out the window with his foot....scariest shit of my life...I hope nobody will ever go back there b/c the only reason I got out was pure luck
Those freaks should be put in jail. Is what these people are doing right? Assaulting travelers and people passing by the town? I thought we lived in a free country! We are protected of our LIFE under the United States Constitution. Policemen making comments about these freaks isn't doing anything. What these punk cops should be doing is investigating the crimes these people are committing, and start protecting the innocent victims.
nah all the cops wanna do is get kids tht try to go in into trouble instead of stoping the real fucken problem... drug dealin inbreeds
-burn oniontown to the ground!
I am wondering why it is that the mailman leaves mail at the end of the road and not in their mailboxes (if they have). I mean, something about this place sounds very illegal...like why are police afriad to go up there? I just don't get it. How can inbreds have such power? How big is this place??
Go to google earth type in dover plains, NY go to the south west a little and bam you will see oniontown rd. Its very small, just a road. Probably no more then 50 - 100 people live there maybe even less. I have also been there and this little black chick threw a boulder at my friends head. Thank god it hit the door frame and not just the window because he probably would of died. Scary shit in there!!!
really? Who cares?
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quotations says:
17 months ago
The youtube video isn't working any more. I had never heard of this internet phenom before, I would have liked to see the video. Can you post a different one?