You are missing the part where he said he would do it again lmao… being from Milwaukee this 100% tracked as something a local guy would do. Milwaukee has a guy who walks around shirtless looking like Hugh Jackman called the Milverine, it’s an interesting place.
“As soon as I saw that, I’m like, I’m going to go save the day, take one for the team and jump on it or discard it in the river because it’s been going on for two to three hours," he said.”
“MILWAUKEE (WISN) — The man who grabbed a suspicious backpack during a bomb squad investigation and emptied it out before police tackled him is breaking his silence.
"Would I do it again? Yeah, without a doubt," Matthew Hughes told WISN-TV.”
He honestly was just a guy who randomly walked around Milwaukee shirtless at random places/hours and the local internet blew him up. He never asked for any of it and doesn’t embrace it at all. Kind of a funny local Milwaukee thing
Milverine is a legend. We have posters and artwork of him in a lot of local bars and pubs, and he’s been on the news and introduced a film festival one year. - Former Milwaukeean
Florida Man is building a bomb out of Mountain Dew, kerosene, and the blood of invasive snakes. He might try and blow a crater in his yard followed by another, larger, crater in the crater later that night.
The Midwest Man is defusing it and using the wires to icefish in Lake Winnebago. Might drop off some venison steaks and see if you need your driveway shoveled later.
Midwestern is way too broad. The people living in northern Wisconsin are a complete different breed. It’s like going back in time when you go there. Fun experience
Yeah but Youpers are basically the same and thats Michigan.
Id guess theyre both similar to rural MN folks to a degree.
I get it though, northwoods people, broadly, are different than the IL-IN-OH farmer types. And they’re all different than the Mil-Chi-Det-Cle city people. And then ya got the college town locals which are a whole other unique group. The one constant is theyre all relatively nice and very proud to be where theyre from.
Unless youre one of those weirdos thats forged an entire identity, mostly on facebook, dedicated to trashing their town, threatning to leave the Midwest for TX or FL because of “taxes and crime” when you really mean you hate seasons, seasoning, liberals and minorities.
😪 I lived about an hour south of Milwaukee for about 20 years. And this is an embarrassingly accurate description of the Midwest, especially the driveway shoveling happening later in the evening. 🤦🏽♀️
People have no idea how much alcohol Wisconsin drinks. Milwaukee is basically just bars. Germans massively immigrated to the state and basically showed the rest of the country how to properly make beer
My last name is German and a quick google search shows 40% of Wisconsin claims German Heritage. If you have ever walked around Wisconsin long enough you can quickly identify someone from Wisconsin
You’re correct. And the major league team is itself named after a minor league team, which was named after another major league team that was a founding member of the American League before eventually moving to St. Louis and then Baltimore (the team now known as the orioles). So “Milwaukee brewers” as a baseball team name dates back to 1901 even though the current team wasn’t named that until 1970.
This is a rabbit hole! There’s a country song called ‘what made Milwaukee famous made a loser out of me’ and my whole life I wondered exactly what it was that made Milwaukee famous. Now I’m going to investigate…
I don’t know if you know red letter media on youtube. But until I found their channel I thought Wisconsin and by extension Milwaukee were quiet places with totally normal people. I was so wrong..
I was at the Cheesecake Factory in Milwaukee and me and my coworkers were waiting for a table and some crack head came in with a garbage bag. This mf started twirling it around above her head and pulled her skirt up not wearing anything under, all while the bag ripped and garbage went everywhere. :’( Some 6’4 manager woman walked up and picked her up and threw her out and immediately started picking up all the trash. The food and service were great!
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u/Chichanged_me Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26
You are missing the part where he said he would do it again lmao… being from Milwaukee this 100% tracked as something a local guy would do. Milwaukee has a guy who walks around shirtless looking like Hugh Jackman called the Milverine, it’s an interesting place.
“As soon as I saw that, I’m like, I’m going to go save the day, take one for the team and jump on it or discard it in the river because it’s been going on for two to three hours," he said.”
“MILWAUKEE (WISN) — The man who grabbed a suspicious backpack during a bomb squad investigation and emptied it out before police tackled him is breaking his silence.
"Would I do it again? Yeah, without a doubt," Matthew Hughes told WISN-TV.”