There will be no more going to Hel on bus 666. The bus to the town of Hel on Poland’s Baltic coast has long been popular with tourists. But some Christian conservatives have protested the number signifying the devil on a bus leading to a place that sounds like the word “hell” in English, the AP reports. The local bus operator, PKS Gdynia, announced this week that bus 666 will no longer run to Hel. It said it had flipped the last number and would now run the line under the number 669 starting on June 24. Local media said the bus company acted under the pressure of Christian groups but was already thinking of returning to the old number amid a public outcry over the change.
The local news portal Trojmiasto.pl said that the line has operated under the number 666 since 2006, first as a local joke before attracting riders from across Poland and beyond. Some people rode the bus simply to say they had taken the 666 bus to Hel, Polish media reported.
…but they WILL keep the bus line’s theme song…
https://youtu.be/LMuDrj5BpM0
50 years ago
there is a small town in the upper peninsula of Michigan named Hell
it is 5 miles from a small town named Christmas
The last gas station in Hell had a sign: Last chance for gas until Christmas
The last gas station in Christmas had a sign: Last chance for gas until Hell
the rumor was they were owned by brothers, but you know how rumor lies.
Living here in Michigan I can honestly say I’ve been thru Hell and it wasn’t that bad a place.
Also up in the UP around Tahquamenon Falls I walked through a Climax Forest but it didn’t do it for me.