| abstract | - Though the area was inhabited prior, present-day Caernarfon was officially founded in the 13th century by King Edward I of England when he built a castle there; although after his carriage was broken into and robbed (when he turned his back for a second), the King was scared witless by such barbaric acts and left. When Welsh rebel Owain Glyndŵr fought back against England in the 15th century, the people of Caernarfon were afraid of being caught in the ongoing battle. They walled themselves up and isolated themselves from the outside world for over 400 years. In the 19th century, the walls came down, but thanks to years of isolation not only were its inhabitants severely inbred and looking like slightly handsome pitbulls, their language had evolved from Welsh to a butchered dialect of ghetto-esque slang. The new English concept of "crime", which was not present in the paradise of Wales before the arrival of the English, was by now widespread in Caernarfon. To this day, it is the second-most crime filled city in Wales, beaten only by Rhyl, a town that most Welsh people will refuse to even class as "Welsh".
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