Can't say we aren't newsworthy ...

.... this from the local Republican Rag:

The surveillance camera video of a minivan crashing through the front wall of a Wilkesboro restaurant is causing a national stir.

The incident occurred last Wednesday evening at the Coffee House on Brushy Mountain Road in Wilkesboro.

According to reports a 2001 Ford van, driven by Mary Lou Lunsford Sheppard, 60, of Cain Ridge Road, Wilkesboro, was traveling south on Brushy Mountain Road when the vehicle went out of control, ran through the restaurant parking lot and smashed through the front wall.

Kenneth Mack Anderson was sitting in a booth reading a newspaper when the van ripped through the wall. The impact pushed Anderson and the booth against the restaurant counter.

Anderson received minor cuts and bruises. Lunsford declined to be taken to Wilkes Regional Medical Center in North Wilkesboro.

Bob Ashley, the owner of Holly Mountain Enterprises, which includes Coffee House restaurants, Run In convenience stores and Holly Mountain IGA has been getting a lot of phone calls about the video.

“Several other TV stations have contacted me to use the video,” Ashley told The Record during a Tuesday afternoon interview.

A segment on the accident was aired on NBC’s Today Show on Monday morning.

And, truTV, a national cable network that shows reality-based programs, has even offered to buy exclusive rights to the video from Ashley.

Ashley seems a little surprised by all the hoopla.

For what it's worth, this Coffee House is the one I and a colleague stop at one day for coffee and the waitress refused to even acknowledge we were in the place. After waiting about 5 minutes we started trying to get her attention. No luck so we left - and she watched us leave, still with no reaction. I've never been back. I spoke to Carmen about it and she promised to try some Cuban Santeria on it.

Coincidence?

of course, it did take about two or three years to take effect. But then it took the FBI seven years to find the Anthrax killer supposedly. So it looks like Santeria is more effective than the FBI.

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