Metal sign 'bamalamas' Otis Redding's widow's Mini Cooper

A metal sign outside a downtown Macon bookshop had little respect for Otis Redding's widow's car.

The sign, on a sidewalk outside the Golden Bough Bookstore on Cotton Avenue, blew over and smacked the front fender of Zelma Redding's red 2015 Mini Cooper.

Redding's daughter, Karla Redding-Andrews, had parked along a curb there Wednesday afternoon to help her mother out of the car.

Before Redding-Andrews could return and park elsewhere, the sandwich board-style sign, which belongs to the bookshop, flopped over on the car and, as Otis himself might have put it, "bamalama'd" the fender.

"It did, it did," a laughing Redding-Andrews told The Telegraph. "The sign got caught up in the wind."

A police report of the incident didn't mention how much damage was done, but it was more than a little fender-ness.

"It did enough," Redding-Andrews said. "Enough that it'll have to be repaired."

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This story was originally published March 31, 2016 at 5:39 PM with the headline "Metal sign 'bamalamas' Otis Redding's widow's Mini Cooper ."