Harvey Updyke, who poisoned landmark oak trees at Auburn University, dies at 71
I remember this hillbilly. I was working in the Black Hills and listening to Bob & Tom when this redneck called into the show and proclaimed he had poisoned the Auburn tree. Proud shiteater he was. And stoopid too. He ended his impromptu confession with "Roll Damn Tide."
"Updyke pleaded guilty to poisoning oak trees that drew generations of Auburn University football fans to Toomer's Corner after big victories. The incident, which happened in 2010, outraged Auburn fans.
He was sentenced to serve at least six months of a three-year sentence for criminal damage to an agricultural facility, the Lee County District Attorney said at the time.
As part of the sentence, he was put under five years of supervised probation, including a ban on attending any collegiate event or stepping on Auburn University property.
Auburn police arrested him for dousing the landmark trees on the edge of the Auburn campus with herbicide so potent that agronomists said they had little to no chance of survival.
Authorities first learned of the herbicide after a caller who identified himself as "Al from Dadeville" phoned into a Birmingham, Alabama, radio talk show, saying he had poisoned the renowned oaks after Auburn won a contentious November 2010 football game against the University of Alabama."
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.... and then some right-wing racist men from Alabama showed up and set the wooden cross aflame shouting "America First" and "Christ is King" while shredding their cocks with cheese graters and livestreamed the whole thing.
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