Licking County Ohio has as its trademark the name “Land of Legend” to commemorate famous folks like the drummer boy of Shiloh and Johnny Appleseed, whose stories live on. So far, one of the most interesting of its famous people has yet to be recognized as anything but a ne’er-do-well and a sot. Such is the lot of Kile Wygle, former owner, driver, and wrecker of a widely renowned motorized bar stool.
So far, Kile has to his credit a four-page police report, a nine-stanza poem by Carl Vine, a 4-minute song by country singer Bryan Lewis,
a write-up in Smoking Gun, the wrath of Licking County Child Support Enforcement Agency, about 227 media reports according to a Google news search, punishment for DUI, and the chagrin of having his famous wheels taken from him by a court and auctioned at eBay to pay his debt for child-support.
And all because he drank 15 beers before ripping off a 20-mph ride on a motorized bar stool and dumping himself onto the street. In general I’m for underdogs, and if there ever were a guy whose lot in life is “Underdog,” it’s Kile: He can’t win for losing.
Something he’ll never lose, however, are bragging rights that he has done more than anyone else in recent years to bring fame to Newark and Licking County. That has to be worth at least a mention in local history books forevermore.
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