New York Man Complains About Increase in Traffic Due to Influx of New Yorker’s

During an investigation into the increase in traffic on North Carolina Highway 150, the Mooresville News team met a man who was certain that he had solved the case. Lucas Williams, a Mooresville resident and retiree, had spent his days trying to answer the same question. However, he was certain of the answer.

“Yeah, it’s all of these New Yorker’s coming down here and thinking that they own the place.”

Williams claimed he had conducted what he described as a “traffic behavior analysis” while standing on the corner of 150 and Bluefield Road, he elaborated on his findings. 

“I analyzed the way commuters drive on 150 and compared it to CCTV footage that overlooked New York streets,” he said, tapping a stack of blurry printed screenshots of CCTV footage. “The evidence is undeniable. The lack of blinkers. The honking. The bumper to bumper traffic. The loud music. I hate it.”

According to Williams, the signs go beyond traffic tendencies.

“It’s the attitude,” he continued. “They walk into a Bojangles or Cookout like they are late for the stock market opening bell. They order sweet tea and complain that it’s “too sweet…They don’t wave when you let them merge in front of you, if they don’t already swerve into your lane.”

Williams described what he believes to be a noticeable pattern.

“Yep, you can always tell. Out of state plates. Driving fifteen over but somehow also riding the brakes. You can hear their music even with the windows rolled up. They complain constantly saying that things are always better in New York. If it’s so great in New York, then why are you here clogging up 150?”

When questioning him further, Williams had words to say about potential New Yorker’s moving to the Mooresville area.

“All I’ll say is that you all can stay home. You are ruining this small town that we love dearly. I want my kids to grow up with Southern values, not whatever it is you all are exporting. Stay up there with your terrible driving and Communist policies. Keep Mooresville, Mooresville.”

The “Keep Mooresville, Mooresville” is a slogan that Williams came up with a few months ago. He can frequently be spotted on the corner in front of Walgreens on 150 with a poster with the slogan written in thick black marker on cardboard. He plans on creating shirts soon.

When the Mooresville News team asked Williams how it feels to witness Mooresville grow exponentially since his childhood, he paused before responding.

“Well, I’m not from Mooresville, I just moved here last year.”

Reporters then asked a follow-up question, “Where are you from?”

“New York City.” He replied, before adding that his situation was “completely different” and that he is “at heart, a Mooresvillian.”