I asked Mayor Massengill, who lives right around the corner from Pumpkin, what a public meet-and-greet with a farm animal says about his leadership style.
Residents were practically selling their souls for a chance to throw their kids in front of a fluffy local celebrity for the ’gram. So did half of the town, by the looks of it. The always-quirky Town of Fuquay-Varina (shout out to my girl, Susan Weis) never looks a gift horse in the mouth - an official meet-and-greet with Pumpkin the alpaca and Mayor Blake Massengill was scheduled for Feb. Regardless, he was already a local celebrity and within a matter of hours had already “booked” his first public appearance and created a fan page on Facebook. I reached out to the owner, only to fi nd out that his name is Pumpkin - not Alpacino, like I had hoped. Who was this small brown alpaca strolling the town in a red bandana like he owned the place? Did he have his own Facebook page? The world around us was burning down faster than a dog turd getting reported in Holly Springs, so an adorable alpacalypse was just what the doctor ordered.Įveryone wanted to know where he’d show up next, but we all know that the Chuck Norris of Alpacas never reveals his next move. Over 2,000 “likes” later, people were demanding to know more. We couldn’t immediately ID the owner, but the minute I posted it on Facebook my comment section lit up like Blockbuster on a Friday night in 1995 (RIP, Blockbuster). As Fuquay Memes, I receive quite a lot of random things in my inbox - from pictures of missing teeth in the Jimmy John’s parking lot to pearl-clutching vanity license plates - but I was not fully prepared for what I showed up in my inbox on February 10.Īn alpaca.
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