2008 June - Trunkations

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Gutted Tuna To Be Burned, Buried, And Rise From The Ashes

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Well that didn’t take long. Acting on an anonymous tip, Sheriff’s deputies in Coos County, Oregon, surprised two 21-year-olds and two teens as they hacked apart a stolen statue of Charlie the Tuna with a chainsaw. Despite the reckless theories of internet blowhards, Charlie’s theft appears to have been the act of simple drunk idiots, [...]

A Museum By Any Other Name

Monday, June 9th, 2008

The attraction known as the Pioneer Auto Show, formerly known as the Pioneer Auto Museum, Murdo, SD, wants everyone to know one thing. It is not a museum. “We are not a museum,” says its owner in a story in the Mitchell Republic. “We are an attraction. We are fun. We are an experience.” The [...]

Charlie Vanishes From Del Monte — And Charleston

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Earlier this week, the Del Monte corporation announced that it was dumping Starkist tuna — and its spokesfish Charlie — blaming it on “highly sensitive price elasticity.” Then, only hours later in Charleston, Oregon, a 12-foot-tall chainsaw sculpture of Charlie disappeared. Charlie stood on the main road, at the end of the only bridge into [...]

Biggest Rebel Flag Flies In Dixie

Friday, June 6th, 2008

The wires were whistling this week over the unveiling of the self-proclaimed World’s Largest Confederate Battle Flag in Hillsborough County, Florida. It’s the centerpiece of a soon-to-be-completed private Confederate veterans memorial, erected by Marion Lambert as a spit-in-the-eye to county commissioners who refused to acknowledge April as “Southern Heritage Month.” Although we welcome the addition [...]

Car-Free Oldest Street Threatened

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

For the past few years, the town of Bellefontaine, Ohio, has done the right thing: they’ve reopened the America’s Oldest Concrete Street to traffic. But now that giddy thrill may be ending. During the 1990s the town blocked off Court Ave. in a Nervous Nelly effort to keep it exactly as it was — in [...]

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