06-24-2014, 02:46 AM
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Originally posted by DanielP
I thought that the Hippies, drunks and "riff-raff" were part of the tourist attraction to Pahoa.
Peeing in the parking lot and getting into fist fights is the mainlander newspeak translation of pono and aloha. Hopefully, tourists will see this and take back their impressions to their mainlands. I remember one guy on the mainland that gave me a dire, frightened warning, "Oh no, you don't want to go to Puna." Should have listened to him (just kidding).
"This island Hawaii on this island Earth"
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*