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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
