The Limousine-Driving Playboy Uncle who created “Big T!ts Potato Chips”
Every so often, a picture of an old bag of potato chips rockets around the internet. But how do we know it’s real? How did it get the name? And did the people who came up with it actually know what they were doing? We got answers from the last person who knew the man behind the meme.
Jeremy Markovich
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You can't get a DWI on a horse in North Carolina. But why?
There's a viral video where a man (correctly) states you can't be charged with drunk driving on horseback. It wasn't always this way. Blame, maybe, a chaotic Christmas parade and a wily lawmaker.
Tony Hawk wanted to track down a mysterious skateboarder from 1979. We found her.
A photographer snapped a shot of Shaunda Shane skating down her street in Fayetteville when she was 10. How did the world's most famous skateboarder see that picture 45 years later?
The complete story of the time a monster truck drove across the Currituck Sound
In 1994, someone asked if Dennis Anderson could bring Grave Digger to a July 4th celebration on the Outer Banks. Dennis said he could drive it there. Over the water. The rest is history.
North Carolina's unkillable 41-year-old license plate
"First in Flight" has been this state's standard license plate since 1982. It replaced a controversial slogan and came from a different era, when it was okay to clown on the Wright Brothers.
The Limousine-Driving Playboy Uncle who created “Big T!ts Potato Chips”
Every so often, a picture of an old bag of potato chips rockets around the internet. But how do we know it’s real? How did it get the name? And did the people who came up with it actually know what they were doing? We got answers from the last person who knew the man behind the meme.
What ever happened to the 21-year-old police officer who caught Eric Rudolph?
Jeff Postell was just 10 months into his first patrol job in the small town of Murphy. Then one night, he caught the man behind the bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and everything changed.
Stealing a dog is an automatic felony in North Carolina. Stealing a cat is not. Why?
Back in the day, pet crime was treated equally. That all changed in 1989, thanks to a spat between lawmakers that turned a seemingly harmless bill into a legislative dogfight.
How our Bill of Rights was stolen, and how the FBI got it back
Just after the Civil War, a soldier casually took North Carolina's copy of a priceless founding document. A century later, the feds set up a sting operation to recover it. Here's a true story involving a fake tech millionaire, the Antiques Roadshow, and vanilla milkshakes from Cook Out.
