Lizard Lick Towing

There is a TV show called Lizard Lick Towing that appears on a cable network called Tru TV. It’s interesting to watch this show seeing as how the location of this show is about three miles from where I live. Every once in a while I would recognize a few local people on the show, much so that the people who have appeared on the show are starting to talk about it. Wendell, North Carolina is a small town less than a mile from a place so small that if you blinked while driving through the area you would miss it is called Lizard Lick.

 I am friends with people at the local grocery store in Wendell and with the usual topics of conversation in sports, gas pricing or who’s sleeping with whom; the growing topic is the number of people who have appeared on this show telling their stories on how they were paid to be on it. Few were paid as much as $25 just to be seen running out of their house looking like an idiot as they try to save a vehicle that was towed to their home earlier that day.

So for all accounts, the show can be entertaining at time as everyone in the surrounding area is stereo-typed as typical brainless rednecks. Or realize that a great deal of these reality shows is fake as any other show on TV these days. Obviously the people staring in this show have found a niche that works for them and they are providing income for their families as with the other people who put the show on TV. But it does seem a big difference from the days of The Andy Griffith Show about a small town sheriff of North Carolina promoting honesty and values to this current show that seems to promote ….something. 

To visit Lizard Lick Towing and experience their huge gift shop simply leave Raleigh, NC on east bound 64 hwy towards Rocky Mount, NC. Exit 432 turning right onto Lizard Lick road. At the first stop light you will see their place of business across from the Swift Mart gas station with the giant lizard on top of the ATM machine. Not too far from the Carolina Mudcats baseball stadium.