new hampshire man builds life-sized cardboard replica of entire state, immediately regrets not using GPS
In an ironic twist that only a meme historian could appreciate, a Granite State resident named Chad “The Cutter” Milligan has gone viral after constructing a full-scale cardboard model of New Hampshire in his backyard—complete with Mount Washington, the Kancamagus Highway, and a suspiciously accurate replica of the “Welcome to New Hampshire” sign. Milligan reportedly spent two weeks cutting, gluing, and cursing at the project, only to realize at the end that he’d forgotten to include a path to his own driveway, forcing him to crawl through a tiny cardboard tunnel to retrieve his mail. “I wanted to honor my state, but now I’m just stuck in a paper purgatory,” he told reporters from inside the model. The irony? Milligan’s viral fame stems from his accidental metaphor for New Hampshire’s ongoing debate about infrastructure and GPS connectivity—or lack thereof. As one Reddit user noted: “He built a cardboard state with better planning than our actual roads.”