The beer saved his life
Remember that little blip this past weekend about the shooting at the Exxon on Merrimon Avenue, right next door to the giant Staples? Well, police have charged someone in that shooting and WLOSers ran with it.
It’s a great story – store clerk chases after a man who walks in early Sunday morning and walks out with a case of Budweiser. There’s an altercation. The guy with the beer gets in a car and the clerk fires, hitting a car passenger right in the gut.
Police charged the clerk for the shooting. WLOSers said the guy who took the beer left a $20 on the counter. But the clerk said it was a Sunday after 2 a.m., and no beer sales were allowed.
Here’s the kicker: WLOSers said the beer may have saved the passenger’s life because the clerk fired and the bullet traveled through the car window and through the cans of beer sitting on his lap.
We think all that spurting alcohol may have also helped cleanse the wound. And if you’re shot, you need something to dull the pain, right? Just grab a can with a hole in it, put your mouth over the hole, then pop the top – you’ve just shotgunned a beer!
We know already – it’s still snowing high up in the mountains
The WLOS weather soothsayers continue to pound away at the most hackneyed story of the week – it’s spring, but gasp it’s still cold outside. All shocked, they tell us that it has been snowing high up in the mountains. And there’s a snow alert or something for Thursday night. Look for WLOSers to sound the snow sirens on the Thursday evening news.
Loving the lottery
A Charlotte strip club says it will sell lottery tickets at the club. Joy! Ashvegas is going to start a new chain of titty bars. What should we call them? “Dames and Games.” “Tits and Tickets.” “Scratch and Sniff.” Any other suggestions?
Behind the scenes with the Rug Lady
WLOSers went out to Rug and Home and got that behind the scenes look at the making of those commercials with rug gal Jamie Simpson, who was looking hot, hot, hot. Damn! Look, Bulldog, we we’re going to go – we really were. But some of us have to work for a living. So if anyone has any photos out there, shoot them our way. We really need a few nice pics of Jaime.
Cataloochee record
So global warming is actually helping ski resorts stay open longer and longer. That’s what we took away from a report that Haywood County’s Cataloochee ski resort is celebrating the fact that it’s been open 121 days this season. The previous record was 96 days.
The ski resort operators say the mild winter encouraged more people to get outdoors. Go figure.
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wait a minute… they don’t lock the coolers after 2:00 AM like every other 24-hour convenience store i’ve ever been to? hmmmph.
Rumor has it the Spartanburg paper was at Rug & Home as well and has something planned for Sunday, April 2.
wait, the cops charged the shooter? how will the DA measure that up with the pharmacist that shot at a guy a little further up Merrimon in the middle of the day on the street where I used to stroll my child in her stroller…I hope that makes the news.
"Dicks and Tixs" (for us chicks)
"Lottery Lovelies"
"Scratch and Sniff" is just gross!
Man, and the only news of interest around here is that the state legislature stripped Actors Theatre (arguably among the top ten regional theatres in the world, and the pride of Louisville) of a $900,000 grant that was in the state budget.
Proving again that Frankfort (our state capitol, did you know that?) is suffering from "Small Dick Syndrome."