The story about an American who was so dissatisfied with the noise of airplanes flying over his house is popular on the Internet that he decided to annoy the airlines and placed a huge inscription on the roof indicating another city. We decided to check if this is true.
The story of the resident of Miluoi (Wisconsin, USA), which was prevented by the noise of aircraft landing in the nearby airport, can be possible Meet on Information And entertainment Portals. It is claimed that the man placed on his roof the inscription “Welcome to Cleveland” - a city located several hundred kilometers. Thus, the American allegedly constantly provoked panic at passengers who began to doubt that they sat on their flight. Because of this, the airlines allegedly even changed the landing trajectory in order to fly around the house of the indignant city dweller and not to nervous their customers. The history of an enterprising joker is actively shared by users of social networks ("VKontakte" Facebook*, Instagram*, X, Telegram) and the platform blog ("Picabu" Livejournal).
Information about the inscription "Welcome to Cleveland" on the roof of the house in Miluoi is widespread not only in Russian, but also on English language. Moreover, at the search query “Cleveland, Millawkee, Welcome” you can find the appropriate sightAwarded at Google Maps. In satellite pictures visible The same roof on which the white inscription WelCome to Cleveland is quite distinguishable.
In local media, there is also publication about an unusual welcoming inscription, as well as an interview with the person who created it. So, in 2005, on the website of the publication Milwaukee Journal Sentinel appeared articleWhich tells the story of the local photographer Mark Gubin. It was he who put on the roof of his house a confusing inscription. He did this back in 1978, by his own admission, without any purpose other than "sowing madness." He told reporters that he once had lunch on the balcony with his assistant, and, seeing the planes to land, she offered to place a welcoming inscription “Welcome to Miluoi” on the roof. But the photographer immediately had a more creative idea, which he realized. Apparently, in this way, he did not at all try to force the airline to change the landing trajectory-at least “verified” could not find any reliable evidence (for example, the words of Gubin or his acquaintances), confirming that he was guided by this motive.
Over the next years, Internet users periodically recalled the ruin, inscriptions on the roof of the photographer’s house and it, like wrote Journalist Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "15 minutes of fame that last 37 years." Due to the next surge of interest in the welcoming sign in 2015, the largest American and international media wrote about the ruin: The Daily Mail, Today, The Independent, GQ, Metro, The Huffington Post and others. Then the photographer gave an interview to the TV channel ABCWhere he talked about a letter that received from the head of the city council Ben E. Johnson. According to the representative of the city authorities, he received complaints that the inscription allegedly misleads people and worries passengers. He himself, however, does not consider her misleading, because “he was recently in Cleveland, and everyone who wants to come there is really happy there” (this game of words is poorly translated, but the point is that the phrase Welcome to Cleveland can be interpreted as “Cleveland is glad of your arrival”, and then formally such an inscription can be placed in any city). Obviously, Johnson, like Gubin, has a sense of humor.
“Verified” failed to detect information about any official complaints against Gubin, to remove the inscription or changes in the airport’s work related to his joke. And taking into account the waves of popularity that the photographer received in 2015, passengers would more likely specifically look out for the inscription than to panic because of it. Openly, it was not possible to find information that the trajectory of hiding aircraft for landing in Miluoi has changed anyway in these years.
Thus, the inscription “Welcome to Cleveland”, located next to the Miluoi airport, really exists. It was created more than 40 years ago, and the owner of the house inflicted it for a joke, and did not try to force the airline to change the trajectory of the flight of aircraft allegedly preventing him from sleeping.
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Photo on the cover: screenshot Google Earth
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