1. John Boy once lost a finger while cooking but went ahead and deep fried it and served it anyway.
2. Mayor McCrory has a dog that has killed three mailmen in the past three years.
3. The folks who work at Price’s Chicken Coop all live and work together there 24 hours a day. Those in the know call the business Price’s Chicken Cult.
4. DJ Ramona Holloway used to be R&B singer Solomon Burke before having a sex change operation.
5. A naked man who says he’s looking for AA batteries walks into one of the area’s Eckerd’s drugstores every Friday night.
6. School Board member Jim Puckett is leading a double life and is night manager of a Kinko’s in Salisbury.
7. Former Channel 9 anchorman Bill Walker once saved Suzanne Stevens who was trying to dry her hair by sticking her head in a microwave.
This article appears in Jul 27 – Aug 2, 2005.
