Why you should never pose for pictures when commiting vandalism

[albionmoonlight]

http://www.dosa.uconn.edu/bbpics.html

Also known as--soon to be busted.

[John Galt]

My favorite is the "Break Shit" sign guy.

[albionmoonlight]

I'm kinda partial to #4.

[Travis]

Going to be hard to indentify #4 without dental records. Gotta love that, click the pic, let the guy sleep while his back hair is probably already starting to light up.

[Honolulu_Blue]

I guess #4 is what one would consider a "lethargic hooligan."

[sachmo71]

And the beat goes on...

[Chubby]

"Consideration will be given to students who come forward"

Uh huh, riiiiiiiight...

[WSUCougar]

I'm always somewhat puzzled by this kind of behavior. Sure, I can see getting excited and ripping down the goalposts. But flipping cars and burning them? Because you won the college basketball championship?

I've just never had the impulse to destroy things when my team wins.

[Samdari]

As a more general piece of life advice - don't pose for pictures when committing any crime.

[tategter]

I like how the guy's face in #12 is hidden. Probably the Dean's kid.

[tucker342]

What assholes. They deserve the punishments they get. Notice how the same group of guys were in almost every picture...

What a way to ruin such a great night for your university

[scooper]

I'm always somewhat puzzled by this kind of behavior. Sure, I can see getting excited and ripping down the goalposts. But flipping cars and burning them? Because you won the college basketball championship?

I've just never had the impulse to destroy things when my team wins.
That's the benefit of my teams sucking. All my stuff's in pretty good shape.

[Bosco]

I'm always somewhat puzzled by this kind of behavior. Sure, I can see getting excited and ripping down the goalposts. But flipping cars and burning them? Because you won the college basketball championship?

I've just never had the impulse to destroy things when my team wins.


UConn students have a history of doing this and not just while celebrating championships. They have a yearly Spring Fling celebration that usually ends with a few fires and cars being flipped. It probably has something to do with them being wasted and realizing they go to school in the middle of nowhere.

[Ksyrup]

I feel bad for the guy in #15. What he was holding was only a portion of the sign, after it got torn apart in the melee. It originally read:

GT's Fast Break
Sucks Shit!

[cthomer5000]

I like how the guy's face in #12 is hidden. Probably the Dean's kid.
yeah. I was pretty interested in that. Why would that once face be hidden?


I guess #4 is what one would consider a "lethargic hooligan."
LOL!

[albionmoonlight]

That's the benefit of my teams sucking. All my stuff's in pretty good shape.
:D

[GoldenEagle]

I've just never had the impulse to destroy things when my team wins.
I have always had more of an impulse to break things when my team loses rather than wins. Of course, none of my teams have ever won anything important.

[WSUCougar]

It probably has something to do with them being wasted and realizing they go to school in the middle of nowhere.I went to college in Pullman, WA and drank a half-rack or more of beer every Friday night, but the worst thing I ever did was pee in wheatfield.

[judicial clerk]

This is some pretty funny stuff.

[samifan24]

UConn students have a history of doing this and not just while celebrating championships. They have a yearly Spring Fling celebration that usually ends with a few fires and cars being flipped. It probably has something to do with them being wasted and realizing they go to school in the middle of nowhere.

Being from CT and having been over that way for baseball, I can vouch for the fact that there is absolutely nothing save cows near Storrs, CT. That said, flipping and vandalizing cars are not things everyone from Connecticut find fun to do. :D

[CraigSca]

You know, from a sociological point of view, these pictures are very interesting. As I looked at them I thought how a person from another country might have a hard time understanding what's going on here.

"So, you're favorite sports team wins the championship game, and to celebrate you destroy someone else's property?"

Not to wax overly philosophical on this one, but something to keep in mind when other cultures do something we might think "odd".

[John Galt]

You know, from a sociological point of view, these pictures are very interesting. As I looked at them I thought how a person from another country might have a hard time understanding what's going on here.

"So, you're favorite sports team wins the championship game, and to celebrate you destroy someone else's property?"

Not to wax overly philosophical on this one, but something to keep in mind when other cultures do something we might think "odd".

Unless of course you are in England where the question might be, "why are smashing all those cars when you could be smashing someone's head in?" ;)

Soccer hooligans take things to a different level sometimes.

[corbes]

This exact situation happened in Chapel Hill after UNC beat Duke a few years ago. The photographs ran on the front page of the Daily Tar Heel.

http://alumni.unc.edu/car/weekly/story.asp?sid=110

[BishopMVP]

I like how the guy's face in #12 is hidden. Probably the Dean's kid.Most of the pictures were probably posted up by students. The person who took #12 or appeared in it was smart/considerate enough to block out his face to make identification nearly impossible.

UConn students have a history of doing this and not just while celebrating championships. They have a yearly Spring Fling celebration that usually ends with a few fires and cars being flipped. It probably has something to do with them being wasted and realizing they go to school in the middle of nowhere.Hey, give us some credit too. UConn still ain't got shit on our riots. They didn't even have to deal with riot police. :p