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Hang on....................it gets better...... bar stool might be worth $3,500 -- believe it or not.
Negotiations between Wygle and Ripley Entertainment Inc. broke down after Licking County Child Support Enforcement Agency asked for the stool and any revenue generated from it. Wygle owes $37,066.39 in child support, according to court documents.
"It actually sounds pretty goofy to me," said Wygle, who originally paid $350 for the stool. "Now they want to seize my bar stool."
When Wygle crashed his contraption -- a bar stool welded to a metal frame and powered by a five-horsepower engine -- in March, the stool attracted attention from news outlets around the world -- and apparently from "Ripley's Believe it or Not."
The child-support agency filed a petition after hearing of the possible sale, asking that any proceeds from the bar stool be applied toward due child support.
During the April 27 hearing, Licking County Magistrate John C. Berryhill ruled that if Wygle makes any profit from the bar stool, he is to notify the agency and apply that money to what he owes.
Berryhill also overruled the child-support agency's request to seize the bar stool, "as there are no funds to carry this out, no transportation available and no place for storage that would assure it would not be harmed."
Wygle said he would be fine if the agency wanted to take the stool and possibly try to sell it.
"I told them I don't have a license," he said. "They can come pick it up."
As part of his sentence for pleading guilty to operating a vehicle while intoxicated for the incident, Wygle was fined $375 plus court costs, spent three days in jail, was placed on probation and lost his driver's license for a year.
After the incident, he told an officer during an interview at Licking Memorial Hospital that he had drank about 15 beers before the crash, Newark police reports show.
After a Newark police press release, national and international media organizations, including CNN and the BBC, jumped on the story. A local country singer also penned a song about the incident.
Aside from a little bit of notoriety, Wygle said the ordeal has not changed much of his lifestyle.
"It's been the same, pretty much, as it was," he said. "I have not gotten rich off this."
Seth Roy can be reached at (740) 328-8547 or [email protected].
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Negotiations between Wygle and Ripley Entertainment Inc. broke down after Licking County Child Support Enforcement Agency asked for the stool and any revenue generated from it. Wygle owes $37,066.39 in child support, according to court documents.
"It actually sounds pretty goofy to me," said Wygle, who originally paid $350 for the stool. "Now they want to seize my bar stool."
When Wygle crashed his contraption -- a bar stool welded to a metal frame and powered by a five-horsepower engine -- in March, the stool attracted attention from news outlets around the world -- and apparently from "Ripley's Believe it or Not."
The child-support agency filed a petition after hearing of the possible sale, asking that any proceeds from the bar stool be applied toward due child support.
During the April 27 hearing, Licking County Magistrate John C. Berryhill ruled that if Wygle makes any profit from the bar stool, he is to notify the agency and apply that money to what he owes.
Berryhill also overruled the child-support agency's request to seize the bar stool, "as there are no funds to carry this out, no transportation available and no place for storage that would assure it would not be harmed."
Wygle said he would be fine if the agency wanted to take the stool and possibly try to sell it.
"I told them I don't have a license," he said. "They can come pick it up."
As part of his sentence for pleading guilty to operating a vehicle while intoxicated for the incident, Wygle was fined $375 plus court costs, spent three days in jail, was placed on probation and lost his driver's license for a year.
After the incident, he told an officer during an interview at Licking Memorial Hospital that he had drank about 15 beers before the crash, Newark police reports show.
After a Newark police press release, national and international media organizations, including CNN and the BBC, jumped on the story. A local country singer also penned a song about the incident.
Aside from a little bit of notoriety, Wygle said the ordeal has not changed much of his lifestyle.
"It's been the same, pretty much, as it was," he said. "I have not gotten rich off this."
Seth Roy can be reached at (740) 328-8547 or [email protected].
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