{"id":766108,"date":"2022-01-25T19:06:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T19:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/25\/watch-viral-tiktok-video-of-swiss-village-tricks-florida-woman-into-visiting-n-c-town\/"},"modified":"2022-01-25T19:06:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T19:06:14","slug":"watch-viral-tiktok-video-of-swiss-village-tricks-florida-woman-into-visiting-n-c-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/25\/watch-viral-tiktok-video-of-swiss-village-tricks-florida-woman-into-visiting-n-c-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Viral TikTok video of Swiss village tricks Florida woman into visiting N.C. town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Viral-TikTok-video-of-Swiss-village-tricks-Florida-woman-into-visiting-NC-town.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FWYFF4%2Fvideos%2F635747211070521%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=560&amp;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 25 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A prank video on TikTok fooled a disappointed Florida woman into visiting a North Carolina town she expected to look like Switzerland &#8212; and now the town&#8217;s mayor has weighed in.<\/p>\n<p>Olivia Garcia said in a TikTok video that she and her family were driving through the Carolinas to have a look at recent snows, and she convinced them to make a detour to Gastonia, a town she had recently seen in a viral TikTok from Zachary Keesee.\n<\/p>\n<p>Keesee&#8217;s video, part of what he calls his &#8220;Not Carolina&#8221; series, features footage of his trip to Switzerland, which he intentionally misidentified as Gastonia.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia told WBTV the video made Gastonia look &#8220;like a little town out of Disney movie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said the reality of Gastonia came as a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And then all of a sudden we get there, and it&#8217;s just rundown gas stations &#8212; like we had to go to the bathroom and there was no bathroom that worked in any of the gas stations,&#8221; Garcia said.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia&#8217;s reaction to the real Gastonia earned the attention of Walker E. Reid III, the town&#8217;s mayor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Apparently we are the Talk of the Town! And while Gastonia is certainly not Switzerland, we&#8217;re glad people are learning more about our great city,&#8221; Reid said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Reid invited both TikTokers to visit the town and give it another chance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re glad to see so many people having fun with Zachary Keesee&#8217;s post and hopefully Ms. Garcia will come back to see all the great things our city has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In fact, if they want to contact me, I&#8217;d love to give them a personal tour and show them what makes our city tick,&#8221; Reid said.<\/p>\n<p>Keesee said he reached out to Garcia to apologize for the confusion. He said he would be interested in Reid&#8217;s offer of a tour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never stopped in the city and you know, I think it&#8217;s time to pay a visit,&#8221; Keesee said.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia said she would also be willing to take a second look at the real Gastonia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am sure there are pretty parts, so I will 100% go back,&#8221; Garcia said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 25 (UPI) &#8212; A prank video on TikTok fooled a disappointed Florida woman into visiting a North Carolina town she expected to look like Switzerland &#8212; and now the town&#8217;s mayor has weighed in. Olivia Garcia said in a TikTok video that she and her family were driving through the Carolinas to have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":766109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}