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Danbury, Connecticut

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Location

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    (1702- )
    Located 55 miles northeast of New York City
    Population (2020): 86,518

Why he might be annoying:

    It was burned and looted by British troops during the American Revolution (April 26, 1777).
    The primary mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope was ground to the wrong shape at Perkin-Elmer's Danbury Optical System unit (1981).
    High levels of mercury remain in the Still River that runs downtown, a legacy of the city's past as a leading hat manufacturer.
    It was fined $100,000 for releasing untreated sewage into the Still River (2017).
    At the end of a Last Night Tonight segment about a computer glitch that resulted in residents of Hartford and New Britain being ignored for jury selection in state trials, host John Oliver said, 'If you're going to forget a whole town in Connecticut, why not forget Danbury? Because, and this is true, fuck Danbury!' (August 16, 2020)

Why he might not be annoying:

    The oldest known use of the phrase 'separation of church and state' is in a letter from President Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Association (1802).
    It was ranked as the second-best city in the nation by USA Today (2015).
    It has enough residents of Portuguese and Brazilian descent to support a Portuguese-language newspaper and radio station.
    In response to Oliver's comments, Mayor Mark Boughton announced the city would name its recently upgraded sewage plant after him, explaining, 'It's full of crap, just like you, John.'
    After some back and forth, Oliver donated $55,000 to local charities and spoke at the plant's dedication ceremony, noting 'This place takes the worst that humanity can produce, and transforms it into something that we can live with. And now more than ever, there's something inspirational in that, because at the end of this awful, awful year, what could be more important than evidence that, if we want to, we can come together, overcome our differences and sort our shit out.' (October 18, 2020)

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 229 Votes: 70.31% Annoying