If you're not a football or more specifically a Southern College Conference football fan: You would not be aware of this.
University of Alabama (UA) Crimson Tide football team has a rivalry with their Auburn University' Tiger football tm counterparts. In 2010, a UA fan took it a little bit too far: He destroyed one of Auburn's landmarks after the Tide's loss of the Iron Bowl to the tigers:
"On January 27, 2011, a caller to the Paul Finebaum Radio Network
who identified himself as "Al from Dadeville" claimed to have poisoned
the oaks at Toomer's Corner with Spike 80DF, a potent commercial
herbicide containing tebuthiuron, after Auburn's defeat of Alabama in the 2010 Iron Bowl.[7] Subsequent soil tests showed high concentrations of the poison around the trees, and experts did not expect them to survive.[8] There was also some concern about the possibility of the poison affecting the groundwater,[9] but, on April 19, 2011, the University announced that tests of the groundwater had determined that it was safe.[10]
After an investigation, Auburn city police, on February 17, 2011, arrested Harvey Updyke Jr., a 62-year-old man from Dadeville, and charged him with criminal mischief, a class C felony in Alabama.[11] A grand jury subsequently indicted him on four felony charges and two misdemeanor charges.[12] Updyke originally pleaded an insanity defense, but, on March 22, 2013, as part of a plea bargain
with prosecutors, he pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal damage of
an agricultural facility. The prosecutors dropped all other charges.
Updyke was fined $1,000 and was given a three-year "split sentence"[13]
of imprisonment. Under the terms of the split sentence, he had to serve
six months in jail and would then be on five years of supervised
probation. He was given credit for 104 days of time already served. The
conditions of his probation included a 7 p.m. curfew and bans on talking
to the news media, entering the Auburn campus, or attending a college
sporting event.[14][15] Updyke was released from jail on June 10, 2013.[16]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn_Uni ... traditions is the link.
Now this is not the end of the story:
Judge orders Updyke to pay $500.00 dollars for the next 132 years. That's actually $796,731.98 in restitution costs.
So my question is, he's not going to be able to pay the full amount, even assuming he lives to be 100. So, when he dies, what happens to the restitution?
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn_University_traditions#cite_note-16][/url]
__________________
Into terror!, Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell
University of Alabama (UA) Crimson Tide football team has a rivalry with their Auburn University' Tiger football tm counterparts. In 2010, a UA fan took it a little bit too far: He destroyed one of Auburn's landmarks after the Tide's loss of the Iron Bowl to the tigers:
"On January 27, 2011, a caller to the Paul Finebaum Radio Network
who identified himself as "Al from Dadeville" claimed to have poisoned
the oaks at Toomer's Corner with Spike 80DF, a potent commercial
herbicide containing tebuthiuron, after Auburn's defeat of Alabama in the 2010 Iron Bowl.[7] Subsequent soil tests showed high concentrations of the poison around the trees, and experts did not expect them to survive.[8] There was also some concern about the possibility of the poison affecting the groundwater,[9] but, on April 19, 2011, the University announced that tests of the groundwater had determined that it was safe.[10]
After an investigation, Auburn city police, on February 17, 2011, arrested Harvey Updyke Jr., a 62-year-old man from Dadeville, and charged him with criminal mischief, a class C felony in Alabama.[11] A grand jury subsequently indicted him on four felony charges and two misdemeanor charges.[12] Updyke originally pleaded an insanity defense, but, on March 22, 2013, as part of a plea bargain
with prosecutors, he pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal damage of
an agricultural facility. The prosecutors dropped all other charges.
Updyke was fined $1,000 and was given a three-year "split sentence"[13]
of imprisonment. Under the terms of the split sentence, he had to serve
six months in jail and would then be on five years of supervised
probation. He was given credit for 104 days of time already served. The
conditions of his probation included a 7 p.m. curfew and bans on talking
to the news media, entering the Auburn campus, or attending a college
sporting event.[14][15] Updyke was released from jail on June 10, 2013.[16]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn_Uni ... traditions is the link.
Now this is not the end of the story:
Judge orders Updyke to pay $500.00 dollars for the next 132 years. That's actually $796,731.98 in restitution costs.
So my question is, he's not going to be able to pay the full amount, even assuming he lives to be 100. So, when he dies, what happens to the restitution?
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn_University_traditions#cite_note-16][/url]
__________________
Into terror!, Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell
