An outlet of Baskin-Robbins in Kansas updated their marquee to let their customers know that they have no relation with Carole Baskin of hit Netflix series Tiger King.
The result? The sign was an immediate hit and the sales doubled right away!
The Junction City outlet proclaimed in its updated sign that it has ‘No Relation to Carole Baskin’ last Sunday, TMZ reported.
What’s even interesting is the fact that outlet owner Peggy Heldstab hasn’t even watched the docu-series that’s been trending on Netflix for quite some time.
It was her son who suggested the idea, she told TMZ.
That Sunday, the ice cream store got twice as many customers as they got the day before, something which lifted the storeowner’s spirits in this difficult time.
Meanwhile, Heldstab has begun watching the docu-series. Now, she says that she would gladly serve Carole, even though her sign says otherwise.
Carole, the Big Cat Rescue founder, was in a relationship with retired real estate developer Alan Schreier for a few years after her husband vanished mysteriously.
Alan, 70, met Carole, 58, on the internet, the Daily Mail reported. After dating for two months, Alan moved into Carole’s Tampa compound in Florida, where she still lives today.
“I was on a couple of dating sites in the late 90s and one day I got this email from Carole saying: ‘I know you but I don’t think you know me, but if you want to know me I’m in People magazine this week,’” Alan told the Daily Mail.
“I met Carole about a year and a half after her husband went missing, so it was still fresh.
“She told me that Don hung around some ‘unsavory people.’ She said he used to carry a lot of money around on him and she thought maybe somebody did something to him, perhaps kidnapped or killed him.
“Their marriage was faltering towards the end. She told me they were not getting along at all.”
Alan was keen to meet Carole after they chatted online.
“We got along and she was very attractive. She usually dressed in cat prints, they looked good on her,” he said. “We hit it off pretty quickly and started spending a lot of time together.”
However, things didn’t remain great when Alan’s 15-year-old son Todd moved in with them.
“I never spoke with her about her ex-husband, but there was a big cement slab in the middle of the woods that never had an explanation on it,” Alan recalled. “That didn’t make sense to me. That always like that was the only red flag thing that stuck out with me.”
Despite the mysterious slab and Alan’s sour relationship with Carole, he didn’t believe she killed Lewis.
“I think it’s bull spit. He was not nice to her,” Alan said. “He was rough with her and so forth. So, you know, there’s a part of me thinking, who knows?
“You know? I don’t know. I still believe that she didn’t do it.”
Replaced!