Well I'll be

By Melissa Blanton  

AUGUST 16, 2010 8:37 a.m. (0)

South Carolina. Still can’t get any love. In a column this week in US News, Jamie Stiehm proposes just getting rid of us South Carolinians. To quote Stiehm, “South Carolina has been a plague on the house of the Republic since the start.” Well fine. There are still plenty of folks who want to succeed. Also included among the let’s-just-get-rid-of-them list were Arizona and Texas.

A Georgia preacher is in hot water for being a little too vocal about his dislike for the local high school’s demon mascot. He showed up on the opening day of classes – where is son attends. He was charged with picketing, sans license as well as disorderly conduct. School officials said their mascot is not the hell fire one, they chose the name in honor of a World War II fighter squadron named Screamin’ Demons. And you thought your parents were embarrassing.

It was 11 feet, 500 pounds. And the gator found on Hilton Head required three brave alligator wrestlers to haul the thing from a lagoon.

Hey, it’s a pig. Quit staring. So says an Orangeburg man who has taken to walking his pet pig. Problem is people stare. And ask questions like, “Is that a dog?” Answer? No, it’s a 100-pound pig who happens to like taking walks.

Hard to believe, but it’s been a decade since the Confederate submarine, the Hunley, was raised from the ocean floor off the coast near Charleston. (Thank you Clive Cussler)Scientists have been peering and tinkering and examining and wondering what secrets this eight-man sub holds. And this week researchers announced plans to rotate the vessel to its upright position. Millions have been raised in an effort to solve the mysteries that shroud the sub and hundreds of thousands of the curious have looked at the barnacled hulk in the North Charleston conservation lab where it sits in a tank of water/

Someone stole the Latta, S.C. High School marching band trailer. Sometime between July 26 and Aug. 3 the 10-foot-by-6-foot trailer, which is emblazoned with the school’s green and gold lettering, someone drove or pushed the trailer off school property. Inside? The drum major stand.

A Columbia woman is behind bars for steeling from a grocery store last week. Police found two packs of New York strip steaks and six bottles of deodorant in her purse.

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