When Col. Sanders shot a guy

True story.

April 4, 2016 at 5:12PM

KFC's website just gets weirder and weirder. Behold the Hall of Colonels, which gives you highlights of Harlan Sanders' life. When you choose the 1930 animatronic Harlan, you get a title card: Gasoline Gunfight.

Is it possible they're finally owning up to his interesting life? This excellent bio of the Colonel begins with a gunfight over a gas station sign. Sanders and some associates had just caught his competitor painting over the sign for Sander's station.

That it most certainly was. So how does the company handle the story? As if it's some "Waiting for Guffman" joke.

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