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By now, most sports fans, especially those in Mississippi have heard about the threat made to the trees and shrubs of the campus of the University of Mississippi. A handwritten note was reportedly found in The Grove, the tailgating hotspot for Ole Miss fans, and the issue was promptly turned over to the FBI.
Yes, that FBI.
While there are plenty of jokes to be had, threats against public (or private) property is not something that is really a joking matter, and hopefully, this jokester will soon be handled appropriately.
Here is what twitter had to say about the situation:
I'm pretty sure a State fan didn't write that letter about vandalizing the Grove, bc what true state fan would call the grove beautiful?
— Sarah Allen (@slim_shadyyyyy) November 27, 2014
Just heard on Finebaum that Ole Miss has received a letter from a Miss. State fan that he poisoned all shrubs and trees at the grove!
— Dylan Portz (@Portz_9) November 26, 2014
Good gracious.... This letter threatening the grove makes me wonder about ppls sanity.
— Jordan Hodges (@jordanlhodges17) November 26, 2014
Harvey Updyke is under FBI surveillance for the weekend due to anonymous letter threatening Grove Trees. #EggBowlRumors
— John Ethan Pettigrew (@johnepettigrew) November 26, 2014
It seriously wouldn't surprise me at all if that letter threatening the grove was an Ole Miss fan trying to make us look bad
— Jed Jarnagin (@jedjarnagin) November 26, 2014
So, a State fan snuck into the Grove and left a letter. Umm....okay. We believe you TSUN. It wasn't your fans...no, absolutely not.
— LaKeadra Coffey (@LaKeadraTairaPR) November 26, 2014
Writing a fake letter threatening to poison the Grove while calling the campus "beautiful" and "pretty" is the most Ole Miss thing ever.
— Hail Dear Old State (@DearOldState) November 26, 2014
No way the grove letter is from a MSU fan. We are an Ag school!!
— Will Johnson (@Brahmabull10) November 26, 2014
You can tell the letter about poisoning the Grove is fake by how poorly it was written It's like they overcompensated on grammar mistakes
— Jackie Lofton (@jackiewlofton) November 26, 2014
Dumb Southerners. “@SBNationCFB: Letter threatens The Grove ahead of Miss St-Ole Miss: http://t.co/3TPAMtTf7g pic.twitter.com/zgRnafwTjH”
— Patrick Hall (@Patrick_Hall_) November 26, 2014
Funny thing about the "Grove threat": buddy had the nerve to drop a semicolon in the middle of that butchered letter. #HeTried
— Ravishing Davey Rude (@DispatchDave) November 26, 2014
If you're gonna write a letter threatening to harm the Grove, AT LEAST use correct grammar and spelling. Dear lord baby Jesus help us
— Victoria Burrow (@vickyyb34) November 26, 2014
To the grove serial letter writer: don’t do it. Instead, come poison these God-forsaken hackberry trees at my house.
— Matt Wyatt (@MaroonWyatt) November 26, 2014
To the writer of the grove threat: How about you say that to our* face? * Nkemdiches + Prewitt
— HellYeahDamnRight (@hydr_olemiss) November 27, 2014
Did Ole Miss really send me an email about a threat towards the shrubs at The Grove?
— Kaley Rena Worthey (@kaleyrena11) November 27, 2014
Updyke tweets "IT WASNT ME!!!!!!" in response to Ole Miss threat http://t.co/T03y2sxRcL via @247Sports
— jeff long (@jefflon72046408) November 27, 2014
Whoever sent that threat to Ole Miss like that surely hates that hell out of that school. And I really believe it wasn't a State fan.
— Josh Williams™ (@jtrill69) November 26, 2014
Anybody keeping tabs on Harvey Updyke these days? Ole Miss did beat Bama, after all... http://t.co/Spvj6xzmmH
— Rachel Winter (@auntrachpsf) November 26, 2014
Ole miss student made the threat. We don't give a damn about yalls trees.. Nice try tho #yallscaredorsum
— Andrew Ballard (@Andrew_AB7) November 26, 2014
I despise Ole Miss, but a threat to the trees in the Grove is not even funny.
— Penni Wallace (@penniwallace) November 26, 2014
Tree murder is the new mascot theft. http://t.co/IZYrKN0RkT
— Brian Tynes (@KewlBri125) November 26, 2014
"This is not the first time a tree has been threatened as part of an SEC West rivalry": #waronshrubs #wtf http://t.co/xFStps6DdA
— Richard Fausset (@RichardFausset) November 26, 2014
This is different than when they had to ask people to stop urinating in the grove because it was killing the trees. http://t.co/U73xiBDyRI
— RandyMcTigerFan (@RandyMcTigerFan) November 26, 2014
SEC and its shrubbery... MT @HKellenbergerCL: Headline I just wrote: FBI investigating threat made against the Grove. http://t.co/d3OzXEWRPP
— Ryan Gerbosi (@RyanGerbosi) November 26, 2014
NOT ON MY CAMPUS "RT @16WAPTNews: Ole Miss, FBI taking threat against Grove trees seriously http://t.co/VEU6ro84M2"
— Pearce Crosland (@PearceBerry) November 26, 2014
Only Ole Miss would get the FBI involved in a threat against their trees #hottytoddy #failstate pic.twitter.com/MB0A5Qnins
— Alexandra Bensel (@alexandrabensel) November 26, 2014
SEC! SEC! RT @3onyourside FBI investigating threat to destroy Ole Miss Grove trees "You won’t be one of the most pretty campus’s Next year."
— Austin Reynolds (@ReynoldsRant) November 26, 2014