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Alabama fan who poisoned 80-year-old oak trees'has not been making court-ordered repayments [tr]
AP ^ | August 15, 2019 | Staff

Posted on 08/15/2019 12:45:23 PM PDT by C19fan

A prosecutor wants to know why a University of Alabama football fan who pleaded guilty to poisoning landmark oak trees at rival Auburn University in 2010 isn't making court-ordered restitution payments.

Harvey Updyke was ordered to appear in court October 30 to explain himself, Lee County District Attorney Brandon Hughes told WRBL-TV.

Updyke served more than 70 days in jail in 2013 and was ordered to pay about $800,000 in restitution after admitting to poisoning trees at Toomer's Corner in Auburn. Fans traditionally rolled the trees with toilet paper after a win, but the original oaks died after being doused with herbicide.

Updyke has paid less than $5,000 and often misses payments, Hughes said.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: alabama; college; football
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A blast from the past.
1 posted on 08/15/2019 12:45:23 PM PDT by C19fan
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2 posted on 08/15/2019 12:57:16 PM PDT by deport
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To: C19fan

The lowlife punk won’t make $800,000 in his whole, pathetic life.


3 posted on 08/15/2019 12:57:36 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: C19fan; Alas Babylon!; Apple Pan Dowdy; GizmosAndGadgets; NonValueAdded; del4hope; MamaB; LowOiL; ..

And this surprises who? Of course, he isn’t making payments, that whiney, sniveling little nobody. Duh!

War Eagle!


4 posted on 08/15/2019 12:58:59 PM PDT by Jemian (War Eagle!)
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To: deport

Did that a$$hole ever actually attend even one second of classes at the University of Alabama?


5 posted on 08/15/2019 1:03:18 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: C19fan

Throw him in jail til he rots.


6 posted on 08/15/2019 1:04:59 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (If it weren't for fake hate crimes, there would be no hate crimes at all.)
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To: deport

Harvest his organs and call it even


7 posted on 08/15/2019 1:06:09 PM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: deport

That white trash piece of crap should be in prison.


8 posted on 08/15/2019 1:10:31 PM PDT by A Cyrenian (Send everyone back to their states and let the states pay for their congress electives.)
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To: C19fan

Outcry over one tree.
What about the thousands of trees that gave their lives to make the toilet paper used on the tree.
Toilet paper the went straight to the landfill increasing the load on an overworked sanitation system.

(Just jesting, sort of)


9 posted on 08/15/2019 1:10:38 PM PDT by fproy2222 (MAGA)
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I feel bad for true Alabama fans, even though my father & two cousins were AU grads (War Eagle!) They have been tarred by this @-hole, and am sure they don’t claim him as one of their own.

Oh, and Go Navy! Beat Army!


10 posted on 08/15/2019 1:10:44 PM PDT by twister881
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To: deport

What sort of grown man does such a thing ?


11 posted on 08/15/2019 1:13:09 PM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: Sans-Culotte

“Throw him in jail til he rots. “

Good idea. Not only will he never pay a dime more, but he will cost the taxpayer another 36,000 per year.


12 posted on 08/15/2019 1:13:26 PM PDT by grumpygresh
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What a low life. War Eagle and Roll Tide! I come from a “mixed family”. :)


13 posted on 08/15/2019 1:16:59 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Jemian

What a jerk!


14 posted on 08/15/2019 1:17:05 PM PDT by lysie
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To: grumpygresh

800k seems a bit excessive for a tree.


15 posted on 08/15/2019 1:21:52 PM PDT by freedomlver
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To: fproy2222

Article uses “landmark oak trees”, suggesting more than one.


16 posted on 08/15/2019 1:26:14 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: NorthMountain

Of course not. Locals that don’t go to the college are by far the worst fans.


17 posted on 08/15/2019 1:26:34 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: csvset

You want his liver?


18 posted on 08/15/2019 1:26:55 PM PDT by EEGator
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Okay, I'll settle for:

1.) Hang him from the same kind of tree he poisoned until he rots, or

2.)Dress him up in his Alabama regalia and drop him off in the South Side of Chicago.

The dude is obviously a scofflaw and should not be allowed to thumb his nose at the law (unless he is a member of a privileged minority, in which case it would be okay /s).

19 posted on 08/15/2019 1:27:15 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (If it weren't for fake hate crimes, there would be no hate crimes at all.)
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To: C19fan

They take football seriously down here

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RVTvkdOisk0


20 posted on 08/15/2019 1:30:09 PM PDT by TomServo
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