“It was the hot dog off Miller’s Ice Cream,’’ Spangler admitted under intense questioning.
Spangler’s memory is that Miller’s store was for a time out of business and some high school students thought they’d liberate the hot dog. He claimed not to remember who was involved, but he did remember the group took the dog on a “joyride’’ that ended with them “tying it up with some rope under the Old Glenn Highway bridge.’’
We had a fried chicken joint back home when I was a kid that had a 7 foot fiberglass rooster on a concrete pad in the front of the parking lot. It suffered the same humiliations. One time, it was stolen by putting it on a wheeled pallet and towed off. Another time someone used a pair of skateboards. The county cops found it the next day 20 miles from the restaurant - it came untied and crashed into the weeds. LOL The real shame of it is, that place had good fried chicken. And a big breast quarter, so-greasy-they’re-delicious fries, and a Coke only cost about $1.79. But now I carbon date myself.