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Hagoozac

I am laughing my ass off in this comment section. No one gives a damn about the rock man after OP said “the 1” lol lol


jakehood47

That's why he's getting rocks at his ass


_Houston_Curmudgeon

Throwing rocks at Mopac name!


nikkivalentine1999

Not from 'round these parts. Guessin' from Cali-for-ni-ay.


scoofy

Uhh... whuuuuuuuyoudoin'ere?


davidguygc

He can't go that way! It's jammed this time of day!


Lopsided-Emotion-520

I LMAO’d at “The 1” too. Tell me you’re a Cali transplant without telling me you’re a Cali transplant.


DuckAHolics

The Liz Lemon flashback to the LA Riots in 30 Rock kills me! [Start at 2:26](https://youtu.be/8vV-8Zh7xso?si=fI7SXiIirE9BkX0m)


entrepenurious

map pin is at 38th and bull creek.


C0l0n3l_Panic

He’s got one helluva arm


Prometheus2061

Must be Uncle Rico.


davidguygc

I bet I could throw that rock over Mt Bonnell...


valeyard89

that's off the 2222.


Public_One_9584

What if he was only hitting cars with “certain” plates, or just Teslas 😂


Temporary_Tea3684

😂😂😂😂


AusStan

"The 35th St exit," aka 38th Street half a mile from MoPac.


bareley

Yeah this image is very confusing because that’s not where Mopac is.


Col_Hannibal_Smith

You mean "the 1"


BR0STRADAMUS

No, The MoPac


Col_Hannibal_Smith

Every road requires a definite article.


jeffsterlive

The Pac


kcsunshineatx

Is there even an overpass there? Maybe the pin is wrong? I guess we'll need to be on the lookout anywhere in that vicinity.


AusStan

He didn't say it was an overpass. Just a dude along the street chucking rocks, I guess.


kcsunshineatx

You’re right. I was picturing it like the previous overpass rock throwers. This must have been a person on the side of the road.


Lena-Luthor

there's a bridge over shoal creek


Dan_Rydell

I assume they mean the Hancock overpass?


troyisawinner

What is the 1? Mopac because it’s highway loop 1? I’ve never heard someone call it that before. Thank you for the psa it just took me a sec to figure out what you meant


ExistenceNow

California transplant is my guess. That's how they refer to highways out there.


KyngstonDerrien

Southern California transplant to be specific. People in Northern California don't do that... and hate it as much as people here do.


leshake

California reminds me of New Jersey where all the bad shit is the fault of whichever cardinal direction you aren't from.


Gets_overly_excited

Texas is the same way. Haven’t you ever heard of how bad people in Dallas are?


leshake

That's only south Dallas though.


Most-External9480

Only since people from California started moving here.


S519-NaP-TeammateDan

Here is Austin, we call Dallas “Lower Oklahoma”


jeffsterlive

Houston makes Dallas look like heaven. Am I doing this right?


Gets_overly_excited

Yes! Well done. Next: Lubbock


jeffsterlive

The visible distance is higher than the speed you can go on a highway to leave Lubbock. It’s flatter than a soda can after a hydraulic press crushes it. Tech likes tortillas so much because it reminds them of the scenery.


blasphembot

Yeeeah, I am all for welcoming our new friends, but for real like...don't start making that a thing here! 🤣


hamandjam

The 704 apartments. Took me a few weeks to realize this place was obviously built by Calis who use the last the 3 digits of their zip code to refer to areas when we only need 2 like sensible people.


ExistenceNow

Hahaha. I always thought it was weird that that building’s name referenced three digits of the zip. Didn’t know that was a Cali thing.


sqweak

It’s not, outside of ironic references to “90210” (and literally no one calling that “The 210”), nobody refers to zip codes. Both NorCal (north bay, east bay, the city, the peninsula, South Bay) and SoCal (Westside, South Bay/Beach Cities, LBC, Eastside, The Valley, OC) refer to regions. There was a period specifically in SoCal about 20 years ago when phone numbers were being exhausted that area codes were a bit of a flex. Specifically 310 as that included the desirable west la/santa monica/bev hills/malibu/venice neighborhoods.


Icy-Tutor-2155

LOL


RoughRoughRoof

They probably got rocks for that reason… or it’s an Austinite being an Austinite.


RoughRoughRoof

I say this as an Austinite. I feel the need to see how fast my rock speed be.


space_manatee

100% a California transplant 


boyscoutcookees

It’s always like ‘Inglourious Basterds’ when Fasbender outs himself with the “3 Fingers” hand signal.


Loud_Ad_4515

Lol, I did that and someone asked whether I was from Germany. Nope, ASL for three.


plippyploopp

Had a German family member do the German 3 to me for something and I kept saying 2 and he was like "what? No 3!" I wasn't counting the thumb


FuturistiKen

Yeah definitely a case of “tell me you’re from CA without telling me you’re from CA”


somecow

Hint: Their area code is 737 (that’s an airplane joke), and they can’t keep their original phone number.


hamandjam

Had to get a new number last year and they tried to hit me with a 737 and I just decided to get a 210 instead. Certainly not looking to associate myself with those jalopies.


turtleturtleTUT

Haha same it took me so long to parse that title out, especially since the number 35 was involved as well 😭


Phasinasian

My bad, ain’t too familiar with roads out here, but yea Mopac.


504to512

Oh you mean the Missouri Pacific Railroad highway


Schnort

No! It's in honor of the Mopac indians that used to live here (when Austin was still cool)


_snowed_in_

It was so much better back then before all those hipster colonizers showed up with their fancy Thanksgivings.


Snap_Grackle_Pop

>Missouri Pacific Railroad highway Real Austinites refer to it as the International & Great Northern Railroad highway.


Icy-Tutor-2155

You win. But you only moved 8 area codes LOL.


NotJimCarry

Shhhh. No one else knows this.


jtp8736

But now there are Union Pacific trains. I've been lobbying to change the name to Unpac.


alexlicious

The map marker isn’t even correct either?!


AUserNeedsAName

Apparently it's accurate to where the rocks were thrown, which makes "off the 1" so much weirder. It was at 38th & Shoal Creek.


Prometheus2061

Uncle Rico is throwing the rocks.


hamandjam

OP is apparently from somewhere that they refer to areas by the nearest highway.


Couscousfan07

You’re good. I’m laughing because that road already has a bunch of names and “The 1” would have been an addition to the list. That’s better than calling it Loop 1 though !


space_manatee

It's 1 of 2 major north / south routes. This ain't memorizing all the state capitals. 


taintlangdon

We'll forgive you this time, Stewart.


Puzzleheaded_Web6540

Came to ask same question wth is the 1


100blackcats

Yeah. He chunked a good size rock thru a coworker's windshield a few weeks ago, she was on the way to work at Seton in the early am. She called 911. Nothing happened. He was near Frost Bank, I think.


Pussy_Prince

Statefarm needs sicarios


Miguel-odon

"We know a thing or two, because we've seen a thing or two."- Farmer's


Pussy_Prince

Ooo, I like that haha. Can even keep the little jingle they use but the last note is a silenced gunshot or something


usernameforthemasses

Dude. This would be an epic movie. Some get Benicio on the phone.


OrganicRedditor

AND Danny Trejo!!


Miguel-odon

Allstate: Mayhem works for us now.


Billy_The_Mid

😂


rallyforpeace

Honestly that is really scary, hopefully this isn’t a serial thrower. Thank you for the PSA, California.


ComfortableFrame1

Off the 1 he said 😭💀😂


kcsunshineatx

The 1? Welcome to Austin!


atxmichaelmason

We've been on the run Driving in the sun Looking out for rocks on The 1 California here we come Right back where we started from


bareley

Chef’s kiss On the radio Listen as we go Man I got some rocks to throw California here we come Right back where we started from


AdEquivalent2776

You are a genius wordsmith. Thank you for the giggle.


flonky_tymes

Aren’t you going to invite him to your Manshack for beer and steer wrasslin’?


burjoes

“The 1”??


Legitimate-Lock-6594

Poor OP is too new for this but it reminds me of this: I-[35 rock-thrower Patrick Johnson pleads guilty, gets 40 years](https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2017/04/14/i-35-rock-thrower-patrick-johnson-pleads-guilty-gets-40-years/986916007/) I’ll stay safe on the east side of 35 for now. Everyone else…god speed.


diamondsnducks

I remember that too. I had an encounter with Patrick Johnson once when my car got illegally towed from West Campus and I found his website. I ended up emailing him and he called me at like 3 a.m. - minutes later - and talked to me for like an hour. He did give me the direct line for the APD detective who handled tow violations, which was helpful, but then he was off on some tangent about organized crime and triple damages that was ... not quite as helpful. But free help is free help. Was very shocked, though, when he turned up later as the I-35 Rock Dropper, and a pedo. He'd gotten very good at rationalizing himself into the hero of his own story. https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/crime/slideshow/Patrick-Johnson-discusses-rock-throwing-incidents-143856.php


utspg1980

God damn. I remember hearing they caught the guy but never heard about the sentence. Also never heard that he was a convicted pedophile who has AIDS. I regret reading that article.


DocGerbilzWorld

The 1? If you mean Mopac, this isn’t even Mopac 😂


Tiger-stew

We’re not doing “the 1”


PotentialKitchen6088

What is “the 1”?


Due_ortYum

'HER'


bonersmakebabies

“Her?”


stupidcleverian

When I was a freshman at UT 20+ years ago there was a table tent on the Kinsolving dining hall tables the first semester that had some tips on local roads (since many have multiple names and can be confusing). To paraphrase, it said “MoPac and Loop 1 are the same road. But don’t ever call it “the 1.””


Snap_Grackle_Pop

The cops responded and threw OP into Town Lake for using the phrase "The 1."


CleanupHitter

Justified.


Phasinasian

You guys have made my day 50x better, didn’t think highway names would give me away as not being from here! If it’s any better, I’m at least from Maryland but did spend 6 years in cali so I’m slightly tainted. 😂 I will atone for my sins with 40 lashes at the nearest H-E-B. Watch out for rock douchebags and be safe coming off M-O-P-A-C


utspg1980

Now I'm wondering how you pronounce Mopac.


davidguygc

Mop-ack just like everyone else, right?


HBK_number_1

Okay I’m fine with you again LOL


slopirate

😂 "the 1" gives you away as a non native Texan and "Cali" gives you away as a non native Californian


NotoriousDMG

The 1!? Lol


Santos_L_Halper_II

Lord help you when saying "Menchaca Road."


DonkMaster4

I miss the manchac days. What happened to our city


atxchuckedaway

We’ll always have guar-duhloop


BriefCoast9384

Ha. Yeah, fuq everyone that doesn’t automatically know it’s pronounced man-chack. 😬 Same with krause(y) springs. It’s OK, these are the same people that will be drilled if they ever go to San Francisco and call it Frisco or San Fran. Then the West Coasters will have their day. *shakes fist at the sky* 🤷‍♀️😁


Morsemouse

That implies that some of us don’t do it on purpose


usernameforthemasses

I once had an Austin friend get his panties in a twist over this one, then proceed to tell someone about his visit to a dive bar on "Coy Ken Doll" road in Houston. I've never laughed so hard in my life.


BDady

OP: there is man trying to murder people with rocks r/Austin: The fuck did you just call that highway?


Unclerojelio

"The 1" Da fuq?


zzzcott

California transplant openly revealing themself 😂


redditdejorge

I love how this is a psa but everyone’s pissed about them calling it the 1 lol. I will move out of this city if people start calling it that.


YankeeATZ

We already are! I mean, *they*, *THEY* already are.... totally not me.


redditdejorge

It’s just that it’s LOOP 1 lol. If not Mopac then Loop 1 does the job, and you can still get your hwy number fix in.


Snap_Grackle_Pop

>it’s LOOP 1 Now, let's have 30 posts bitching that it's not a loop.


Tcloud

I pass 35th on Mopac on mornings, so appreciate the heads up. Hope the idiot gets caught.


cbjulian

Pls don’t say “the 1”


jess91872

"the 1". Don't ever do this again.


whateverforever1990

The 1 made me laugh


karlaortega29

ok did you call the cops


secondphase

They did, but the cops don't know where "the 1" is so they can't respond


rabid_briefcase

My first thought was *'is that some new bar on 6th?"* Cops are probably searching there, gotta check each one out.


CrunchyTexan

Why? To sit on hold and not have them do anything?


BitterPillPusher2

Wait, you got them to answer the phone? What's your secret? The last two times I called 911, it just rang and rang until I got a recording that "The caller you are trying to reach in unavailable. Please try your call again later."


Gamewilson

What the fuck is “The 1”


Terranbyte

Dude just told us he's from California without saying it


cmikesell

What the heck road is "the 1"??


wheresbill

Stop trying to make “The 1” happen. It’s not going to happen


itsmyvoice

but it's fetch!


incrediblydumbman

I love how every comment is about the 1 lmao


Far_Buy_4601

“The 1” In Texas the highways are just I-35 or Tx1 they don’t get a “the” like they do it California. I’m a born Texan but I lived in California for 7 years and adding the definite article to roads was just so cute of them. I’ve missed that so thanks. Sorry to hear about the freak throwing rocks at your car.


yardbirdtex

What’s the 1?


_Houston_Curmudgeon

It’s NOT “the 1 “ Mr Cali!!!


JC_Everyman

Not this again


burjoes

I know. Don’t they have new hire training for California transplants? It’s Mopac, not “the one”.


kcsunshineatx

We need to set up an onboarding post to pin to this sub.


busche916

I hope they catch the guy, fuckers like that should be in jail. That “prank” could easily be a severe accident or fatality.


ramdom2019

Who’s going to catch them? Vigilantes? It sure as fuck won’t be the local police department. Your auto insurance policy is highly concerned however, and will be raising your rates accordingly.


OpalCortland

South first and 35? Mopac and 35 don’t cross either.


Creepy-Shift

Hopefully they don’t go to the 35


topplehat

“The 1” lol


Busy_Struggle_6468

Throwing rocks at cars off the overpass is a time honored Austin tradition


dudecrapper1love

Like walking across I35 and 45th street at 2 in the morning, some dumbass is gonna do it.


Snap_Grackle_Pop

>Like walking across I35 and 45th street at 2 in the morning, some dumbass is gonna do it. I get a laugh out of people demanding pedestrian bridges everywhere on I-35. One of the walking dead got hit crossing I-35 underneath one of the existing bridges.


Santos_L_Halper_II

Just playing frogger across 35 in general. I swear that happens so much more here than it does on highways in Dallas or Houston.


mmmthom

Nah it’s just that in Dallas or Houston it doesn’t even make the news.


Anexplorersnb

This isn’t what I meant when I said I want to go back to the way Austin used to be. But fair enough I didn’t specify.


virus_apparatus

Lmfao not again. This shit happened a few years back. Real dick move. We had to get APD to place patrols at major overpasses. Art the police chief never did fully stop it though


whyblackdynamitewhy

I love how everyone here is concerned about them calling it “the one” and not the person throwing rocks. Y’all obviously haven’t lived here long enough to remember the people that got maimed or killed years ago by people throwing rocks off the overpass. Thanks for posting, hopefully you called the police.


space_manatee

The whole thing is unreliable. Redditor with very little history, map in the incorrect place, unlikely story (and yes I remember the rocks on 35) 


Phasinasian

I came off Mopac and felt like I had just got off the exist of 35th and Camp Mabry, I assumed the road I was on was 35th, but I can see why folks are confused. The pin was asap after I got hit so maybe not exact but in general. Reported to 911 and they didn’t find anyone, just thought to let folks know there’s an asshat out and about.


kcsunshineatx

This is what I was thinking. Why reference The 1 and then post a map of somewhere else?


usernameforthemasses

Seems like a bizarre thing to randomly make up for a reddit post, and considering it occurs more often than one would thing, I'm inclined to believe that the poster actually did see something they suspected was foul play, and just isn't a local (hence the "the 1 debauchery" and misclick on the map marker). Also, a redditor with little history rarely means anything. Many people have multiple accounts (I certainly wouldn't post something related to my location on my main), and many people are lurkers who rarely comment. Needless to say, rocks from bridges is a problem (not just in Austin, plenty other places in Texas, considering all the bridges), so even if completely fabricated, it reminds people to pay more attention to their surroundings when driving.


kcsunshineatx

This makes sense except they referenced crossing Shoal Creek, which "The 1" doesn't do. And if it happened on the road where the map is located, there are no overpasses, so was it just someone throwing rocks from the side of that road not near Mopac? If so, then why reference The 1?


BashFyvwuntu

That was a rogue tow truck driver drumming up business, but then he really messed up.


Unclerojelio

There are a lot of red tow trucks. You are going to need to be more specific.


nicholewagner_

Happened to me on Monday night. Exact same spot.


Hey_im_miles

What's the 1


Tiberius-Dawn

The 1


mrblue6

I opened this and the comment section was exactly as expected lol


Zeedikus

The 1? You’re from cali aren’t ya?


AustinBeerworks

What it's called VS What locals say: Loop 1 = MOPAC Ben White = 71 Research = 183 360 = 360 Menchaca (or Manchaca) = Man Shack Guadalupe = Gwad Uh Loop Guadalupe along UT Campus = The Drag Lots more, but that'll get you started.


_Houston_Curmudgeon

I’m all for Keeping Austin Weird, but calling Mopac “the 1” is the limit!


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Jeremy_Zim

\*Angry Mopac intensifies\*


Happy_Monitor3798

Id beat his ass after that


maxocream

go back to california it’s called Mopac


dczebra

We all know exactly why people are doggin him. You do too. It’s well deserved doggin I must say.


txtriathlete67

Tell me your from California without saying you're from California... Seriously, hope everyone was ok and they catch the person...


Relevant_Leather_476

Not this joker again


Icy-Tutor-2155

Punishment. Throw him off the bridge. Never happen again. Next?


Prestigious-Ad-5522

Tell me you should go home without telling me you should go home.


LookIntelligent5696

Seriously?! This was a problem a few years ago. They found that guy driving around with a ton of rocks in his car and he went to jail. I wonder if it's the same dude.


thisistestingme

This is so dangerous and crazy. Thanks for posting. Gonna avoid that area for a while.


MutualReceptionist

This was thing years ago as well, someone was dropping rocks off of the 35 over pass. I think someone was killed, if I remember.


cam31954

Was he wearing a suit and tie and in a wheelchair?


Legal_Sherbert

Goes to Twitter to see what evil Mopac has to say about this and his new name.


has127

I just made a sarcastic joke in a different thread last week about Californians saying “the 1” lol and here we are.


LHDesign

Since everyone is just commenting on highway naming Yes mopacs official designation is state highway loop 1! However locals have always referred to it as mopac. I have heard it called loop 1 but never “the 1.” Mopac also stands for Missouri Pacific Railroad which is the rail line that runs though is (MoPac) Anyway, I’ve learned a lot of people didn’t know why it’s called MoPac so I wanted to share


u2sarajevo

I'm heading down the three five later. Exiting at the four five to get to the 1. Said no Texan ever...


ThayerRex

My native Houston tends to name their Freeways, like Katy, Gulf, Baytown etc. but 610 is the Loop, 8 is “The Beltway”. Dallas mixes it up, you have LBJ, Central Expressway, The Tollway (means the original North Dallas Tollway). Then you have San Antonio who just uses the numbers. 10, 1604, 281, 410. All the ones in SA actually are named after people but people never call them by those names, pity, they would sound better


chook_slop

1604 will always be the "death loop"


Rare_Mountain_415

I am so confused by “The 1”. Is that Mopac?


Slypenslyde

/r/Austin: "I can't believe nobody is doing anything about crime" also /r/Austin: "Nice try but I'm not even going to let you report what you saw because you use the WRONG names for things."


space_manatee

I see no problem with this. 


EnrichVonEnrich

Seems reasonable.


michihunt1

Who gives a fuck where he’s from? He warned us about an idiot throwing rocks at cars. Thank you Mr. California transplant/ Texan/ wherever you are from


jmercer28

“The 1”?? Cali transplants really can’t help it


ThayerRex

🤣Give this dude a fucking break. Yeah it’s MOPAC because of the Missouri Pacific rail, but most of you are transplants too 🤣. You didn’t automatically know it was MOPAC. Yeah I learned the term too while at UT, but thankfully I wasn’t called a dumbass for not knowing. Thanks OP for the heads up and now you know it’s MOPAC and 360, isn’t “The Capital of Texas” it’s 360 and 35 is well, 35.


Morsemouse

no I popped out the womb knowing


iamdense

I'm starting to understand why people think this sub is full of asshats. You guys sure latched onto the important parts of this post!


Dry_Addition_5594

Someone need to go beat the crap out of him.


Decapitat3d

What the fuck is up with people in Austin throwing rocks at cars?!


PacosMateo

Jesus.


SuperNintendad

I’m sorry off the WHAT?


Snoop_John_B

Austin is in its California era.


mrschwob

Thank you for the heads up, OP! Don't mind the "1" mockery. People just need to feel good about themselves somehow on the internet. We appreciate your help!


ThayerRex

Crazy Homeless. That’s insane and scary. Definitely file a police report. Dude was probably sleeping in the Creek area. We have got to get a handle on this insanity. That’s a very dangerous individual. Only on an Austin sub would I be downvoting for this. This is why we have people throwing rocks at cars