Alice Cooper and Col. Sanders. What in the world brought these two together?

The Colonel was no pansy.

In 1903, he dropped out of seventh grade (later stating that "algebra's what drove me off"), and went to live and work on a nearby farm.   

At age 13, he left home.   

He then took a job painting horse carriages in Indianapolis. When he was 14, he moved to southern Indiana to work as a farmhand.

In 1930, the Shell Oil Company offered Sanders a service station in North Corbin, Kentucky, rent free, in return for paying the company a percentage of sales.  Sanders began to serve chicken dishes and other meals such as country ham and steaks.   Initially he served the customers in his adjacent living quarters before opening a restaurant.  

It was during this period that Sanders was involved in a shootout with Matt Stewart, a local competitor, over the repainting of a sign directing traffic to his station. Stewart killed a Shell employee who was with Sanders and was convicted of murder, eliminating Sanders's competition.