You’ll likely all remember The Dukes Of Hazzard, a late 1970’s and early 1980’s sitcom about a family of rednecks that drove around in The General Lee, an iconic orange Dodge Charger with the doors welded shut, apparently no windows and the number 01 painted on its sides along with the Dixie flag on the roof. It even had a distinctive honk. On the show, week after week, the Duke family, especially Daisy Duke, would fight against all kinds of rich city folks that seemed to always want to purchase, steal or otherwise swipe their land from them, to build some overpass, freeway, amusement park or whorehouse. I watched for two reasons, The General Lee and of course, Catherine Bach.
The series went off the air in 1985 and with it, the city folks shenanigans pretty much stopped, except for in a few Simpsons episodes, a few McGuyvers, and at least one Adam Sandler movie.
Until now.
In Winnipeg, possibly the red-neckiest (it’s a word, it exists, I just made it up!) of Canadian towns, a restaurant called Ichabod’s Lounge, owned by some dude called D-Jay – I swear I’m not making this up – has recently received offers from a company called Superior Management to purchase the building. Superior Management of course owns the rest of the block except for a Bank of Montreal branch and the 40 year old restaurant.
Upon getting stonewalled by the restaurant’s owner, Superior Management stopped leasing them their 60 place parking lot, directly behind the restaurant, forcing D-Jay to tare down his patio area and make room for a 20 car lot. Superior Management response?
Fill their old parking lot with large boulders, up to the entrance of the restaurant. Turning it into a Rocky Horror Parking Lot…
Next week, they’ll fly in Bo and Luke Duke from their Florida retirement home, and have them drive around incessantly to the incomprehensible ramblings of Boss Hogg, in order to shame Superior Management out of town. Yeee haaa!
