Entertaining Parallels

I was reading a story about the disincorpration of a corrupt Californian city when I came across this:

No city has been involuntarily dissolved in California. But there have been examples elsewhere.

The tiny town of New Rome, Ohio, was involuntarily disincorporated six years ago, amid accusations that it was just a money-making speed trap masquerading as a city.

The ‘Old’ Rome in Italy originally started as some guys extracting tolls from ships travelling on the Tiber. I hope the ‘New Rome’ bandits were thinking of this when they incorporated their little speed-trap fief. But I’m not too optimistic.

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