LSU fans can be a little…different.
Like so many SEC fanbases, they’re quick to let the head coach know when they don’t like the direction of the football team. You could make a good case that their tailgate is the highlight of the college football gameday experience. They eat, sleep, and breathe Tigers football to an alarming degree that probably isn’t healthy.
So perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised to learn the lengths some of them will go just to own a couple more LSU collectible cups.
On January 19, LSU students Michael Freetage, Travis Lecompte and Jacob Phillips were arrested for trespassing and burglary at Tiger Stadium. The trio was identified thanks to camera footage of them wandering the field in the middle of the night. That covers the trespassing part, but what about the burglary?
The burglary occurred on Jan. 19 around 3:30 a.m. Freetage was caught inside the stadium with twelve LSU collector’s cups, according to the affidavit from East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.
Look, as a former college student myself, I can understand the need to have a steady supply of cups in your cupboard. You never know when one will go missing after a wild night or when you might have way too many people over in your dorm room and all of them need a (responsible) beverage.
But, you know, there are better ways to acquire those cups. Lessons learned, hopefully, and the next time these students want a collector’s cup, they’ll get one the old-fashioned way: paying way too much money for a soda or flat beer.
[LSU Now]
