Seriously? You thought youd spot her sleeping on a wooden bench in the Tower City station?

  • Seriously? You thought you’d spot her “sleeping on a wooden bench in the Tower City station”?

“Charlize Theron Hired To Ride Struggling Cleveland Light Rail System Monday Through Friday,” reads the headline to this breaking news story:

CLEVELAND—As part of an ongoing effort to rejuvenate its public transportation system, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority announced Wednesday that it had signed a three-year, $32 million deal hiring Academy Award—winning actress Charlize Theron to ride the city’s light-rail lines eight hours a day, Monday through Friday.

Wait! Stop! Don’t run out and buy that RTA pass. The headline is from satirical paper The Onion. having a little fun at Cleveland’s expense.

But given the recently demonstrated propensity of certain politicians to treat the Onion as a reliable news source — and it’s probably at least as reliable as Fox News — we can probably expect to see some elected officials spending a lot more time riding the Rapid. — Anastasia Pantsios

This article appears in Feb 15-21, 2012.

One reply on “Looking for Charlize Theron on the Rapid”

  1. There’s nothing like taking the Rapid Transit to the Terminal Tower and seeing an Indians or Browns game. The Rapid Transit transcends time just like Albert said about the street cars when he was contemplating the theory of relativity..as we approach the speed of light time slows..now we think that even the speed of light is slow and that it may be possible to communicate across light years instantly. The holographic universe and the holographic brain may hold some amazing secrets….or the holographic Rapid Transit of Cleveland, Ohio 2012.

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