Check out this online petri dish over at the Mesabi Daily News. Here’s the premise: A man injured his ankle in a moped accident in downtown Virginia, Minn. For some reason, this was reported as major news. The first commenter implied that the MDN was exhibiting some kind of anti-moped bias and within a half a dozen comments people are yelling at each other about where all the meth houses in Virginia are.

This is our largest, most acclaimed Iron Range newspaper. What a world!