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No problemo. Dad or Mom will just write a check and it will be just one more fond memory of pranks at Dear Ole Miss. Hotty Toddy.

I know where they can play with big spherical objects and not get arrested

If two drunk college girls can tip a fountain over, was it really secure in the first place?

It just dawned on me that the little area of concrete next to City Hall is called "Pocket Park".

about as pretentious as SODOSOPA in South Park

A felony? Really? That seems like a stretch.

Don't see that type of behavior at HAILSTATE.

You think alcohol may have been involved?

@1244 is correct. I've wondered how they could so easily push the "globe" off the base. Children playing with this thing could have just as easily pushed it off, it would seem. While I don't agree with the vandalism (their actions, while drunk, were purposeful), the fountain didn't appear to be ready to withstand reasonable interactions with the public. They should have to pay for reasonable damages and do some community service. But felony? Hardly. Malicious mischief and/or vandalism at best, which should be misdemeanors.

5k to put the ball back in place?

I think I'll go with 12:44 and add that since this may be considered an "attractive nuisance", the city of Oxford probably should drop the whole matter and install this thing properly before someone actually gets hurt.

The wind could have blown the sphere off the base, Give me a break.

"A felony? Really? That seems like a stretch." Stretch this out;

§ 97-17-67. Malicious mischief
Universal Citation: MS Code § 97-17-67 (2019)
(1) Every person who shall maliciously or mischievously destroy, disfigure, or injure, or cause to be destroyed, disfigured, or injured, any property of another, either real or personal, shall be guilty of malicious mischief.

(2) If the value of the property destroyed, disfigured or injured is One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or less, it shall be a misdemeanor and may be punishable by a fine of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding twelve (12) months, or both if the court finds substantial and compelling reasons why the offender cannot be safely and effectively supervised in the community, is not amenable to community-based treatment, or poses a significant risk to public safety. If such a finding is not made, the court shall suspend the sentence of imprisonment and impose a period of probation not exceeding one (1) year or a fine of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or both. Any person convicted of a third or subsequent offense under this subsection where the value of the property is not less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), shall be imprisoned in the Penitentiary for a term not exceeding three (3) years or fined an amount not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or both.

(3) If the value of the property destroyed, disfigured or injured is in excess of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) but less than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), it shall be a felony punishable by a fine not exceeding Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) or imprisonment in the Penitentiary not exceeding five (5) years, or both.

(4) If the value of the property is Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) or more but less than Twenty-f ive Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00), it shall be punishable by a fine of not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) or imprisonment in the Penitentiary not exceeding ten (10) years, or both.

Good heavens! I hope their parents see the video!

City aught to sue the contractor. Clearly poorly attached. Could have fallen on some poor child whose parents would have sued the city. Those girls may have saved a life. Who says alcohol is a bad thing??

That one girl looks like a grown woman. I hear they have been identified.

If that’s I felony I should be serving a life sentence…

Just shows how naïve this generation is. Same generation who can't put their phone camera down for two minutes somehow does not realize that you can't go anywhere these days without being on camera. Just stupid.

Perhaps handling large balls is accredited coursework for OM coeds? Delta Gamma!!! You're on double secret probation!

it's an attractive nuisance. they're blameless. like a moth to a light

:)))))))))))

They should consider it an act of political protest like when the individual blew up the Georgia Guidestones and despite it being surrounded by cameras and surveillance, we still haven’t seen an arrest or any follow up.

For you Felony deniers just imagine you walk out of your house and some ass, an old flame or such, has gouged the side of your car with a key. Go get an estimate from a reputable Body Shop and see what it costs. You'll ask for the death sentence, based on what I've read from many of the reader/commenters on this blog.

I loathe Old Miss and the many snobs that attend, but Im on the side of reason here.
Was it wrong, yes.
But they should make these kids do some community service and be thankful nobody got hurt. This was an accident waiting to happen.

That rolled off way too easily. That thing was obviously designed by a UMiss engineer. The girls did the city a favor by flagging what could have become a serious premises liability claim.

The $5000.00 fine seems high, but this is how much it will cost to prevent this from happening again. If those Ole Miss Engineering school graduates had built it according to required specifications we would not be having these conversations.

its the same in most places these days

"Don't see that type of behavior at HAILSTATE." No, just terrorist students arrested while trying to board a plane to the Middle East.

"Don't see that type of behavior at HAILSTATE." No, just terrorist students arrested trying to board a plane to the Middle East.

Trash lines the streets, graffiti covers practically every vertical surface of public buildings, drugs are sold from street corners and convenience store parking lots, architecture has given way to sheet-metal buildings, school children are dumber than pavement, yet in this, the Exceptional Nation, it’s a teen prank that draws outrage.

"about as pretentious as SODOSOPA in South Park "

Close up the intertubes - we have today's winner ;-)

Probably not free m MS

I guess the MSU terrorist gal was a bit worse than the noose on the statue, Freeze and your libtard professor. I can accept that as an MSU fan.

It’s so awesome living rent free in msu brains.

The reason we never tried Swinging, is that I'm hypercritical of other women. I would have been distracted by critiquing their cellulite and their makeup. (OK, and I'd be asking them to be quiet, and stop being so hyperactive) So please forgive me when I say to Ball-topplin' MawMaw: "1969 called. It wants that bluejean skirt back."

And really, if someone is going to run around in a top like that (particularly when there are zaftig coeds around, with whom one would be compared), she needs to have some work done on 'The Girls'. Just sayin'...

But truly, I think that Granddaughter/Grandma vandalism teams are ever-so-cute. If I had a daughter and a mother who pulled a prank like that, right after I gave Oxford City Hall a credit Card number (instructions to include a hefty donation, on top of the damages), I'd be giving DaughterDear a one way ticket to Honolulu (from which I'd hope she would never return), and sticking Mama in "Memory Care" (where nobody would notice her running around in a bluejean skirt and a cutoff slip top.

Felony does seem like stretch. However, different occurrence but skip out on any non-payment of restaurant or hotel bill felony. Any amount. That seems overkill

We
learned in kindergarten that if it doesn't belong to you then don't touch it

white girls commit felony and the comment section says sue the contractor...hahahhahaha it's almost comical the different responses based purely on ones skin and not actions.

If they damaged the ball, then making another will be very expensive. Looks like a prank; a really dumb one. Oxford is full of lawyers with even more alumni lawyers from that school. Their parents will get a good (expensive) lawyer and he will get them off. They will apologize and walk away from this wrong activity.

9:20, "the comment section" did not say that. One or two individuals did. The other individuals mostly engaged in pointless cutesy blather, while a couple implied the "females" were sluts, and another said she'd get banish them from her family (sending the young one to a place she couldn't afford to fly back from, and the pear-shaped one in the granny jeans, to a place you only leave via body bag).

I didn't see ANY sympathy for the miscreants. And the observations that this would have been a Personal Injury attorney's dream, had one of the fools been injured, would be hard to dispute.

Oh, and 9:54, the group appear to be a middle aged woman and her two children.

Three frat boys at Ole Miss went to jail for putting a rope on a statue. Thanks, Felicia.

You guys need to keep in mind that gals these days are 20 to 30 (sometimes 40) pounds heavier than in the 70’s and 80’s. They have more fat…I mean ass…I meant to say mass than the girls of yesteryears. So pushing this thing over wouldn’t be a chore for them. “hotty totty, no lean body”

Oxford is lost

1)Are the two pussy lookouts with them guilty by association?

2) If the "kids" are from another school, does that make this a hate crime?

Oxford was named for where oxen cross a stream, but these crossed the felony line unless...

Unless a judge says it was free speech to unsettle a vulgar hunk of concrete.

For the idiots commenting on the ball being "loose". Fountains like that are designed for the ball to float above the base on a stream of water. Fastening it kind of defeats the purpose. Dumbasses.

This a fountain and the ball was spinning on it. That's why it was able to be pushed off. As far as the $5,000, the ball was chipped and a new one has to be made and installed. That won't be cheap. Can't get a 200+ lbs stone ball at walmart.

I think some of those commenting didn't watch the video.

There was no larger "group" of individuals with the two girls. There were two guys... probably the girls' dates. One of the guys remains visible throughout the video and walks up with the girls toward the fountain but stands back.

This video will make him a popular date and his mother proud. he's looking after his date by being near.

None of the 4 appear to be " walking while drunk" nor "standing/running" while drunk. Indeed, the girls don't sprint away but do hurry to the guys but they all pause and just walk away.

One guy who observes doesn't even take his hands out of his pocket. Nor does either guy particularly react. Like me, the probably figures the " fix" must be simply to set the globe back into a square hole.

It might have been nicer if they tried to re-seat the globe. But, again, I can't mind read like the Oxford police. They may have felt it'd be best to let maintenance do it to be sure it was put back correctly.

I do not know why the girls wanted to touch the fountain but it didn't look like a shove but more like the girl was seeing if it was heavy and if she could pick it up. Or if there was water running over the globe...perhaps trying to clean hands...dunno...but the girls appeared as surprised as I was when it rolled off.

And, there is a cube attached to the globe. The bottom edge of the cube is smooth and flat. There doesn't appear to be any breaks in the cube or globe. It doesn't look like a broken globe so much as one too easily lifted/tilted off and that the rather small cube is the only thing that ever held it in place.

The four didn't not run off. They walked away after the girls loped over to the guys. This wasn't "let's get the hell outta here " running. Nor is there any obvious " Oh boy that was fun/funny".

If I were on a jury or even just the judge looking at this several times, I wouldn't see it as a deliberate attempt to vandalize.

Whether it was the police dept or a prosecutor's office who authored the press release, it was a less that accurate, objective description of the event.

Nor, as some commenting suggested, are the girls over-sized in any respect. They are attractive young girls whose dates are nice looking boys. And, even if their dates are taller than they appear, the girls are average height and have an enviable body weight.

I did not see a sign that read, " Do not touch the globe or lean on it".

But, it did appear that a child being pushed into it by another child or falling onto it would be an accident waiting to happen.

IF it was a deliberate act, I strongly suspect one of the boys will spill the beans. The most likely candidate is the one who makes only a brief appearance.

It would be awful if the Oxford DA charges these kids with a felony. If he does, it's political "tough guy/gal" posturing that would be egotistical and not in the interest of the community. To ruin the lives of kids who likely have promise to grow into functioning /contributing adults doesn't benefit a society. Restitution and community service fits the " crime" if there is one.  

What a trap to dare passersby to rid Oxford of a concrete zit! The entire area should be re-imagined into a lawn bowling temple for daring drunk broads of the Ole Miss Women's Rugby Horde to push a 200 pound ball of cheap concrete at each other.

10:12 describes it as I also see it. Much more eloquently than I could.
And I hate Ole Miss. So I am not defending the snobbery there.
But this does not look intentional, and appears to be an accident.
Not saying it absolves all, but a felony seems over zealous.

I see one of the parents of the girls is in this thread - (looking at you 10:12)

Clearly a lack of warning, as in the warnings on a Black and Decker drill, "Not to be used for dental work." /s

Seems as if the surplus of OM and MC LS grads post here constantly. Aren't you getting ready for turkey fryer lawsuits or stopping medical companies from ending suffering?

Or it just the paranoids and pearl clutchers migrating from anti-vaxx threads?

But I must say these things are everywhere and I've never heard of any person, much less chronological adults, being driven to do this. OM breaks new ground. If they are not hosting anti-Semite rallies, that is.

Mayor Otis Campbell needs to nip this in the bud.

“ loathe Old Miss and the many snobs that attend”

We’re not snobs, we’re just better than everybody else.

Seriously, that was an ignorant statement. There are snobs at every college.

I’m an Ole Miss grad and am absolutely shocked, shocked I say, to find out from some of the commenters here that we are the only school around with students who sometimes make immature decisions. I was so happy in my ignorance before finally being exposed to the truth.

One of the "girls", is clearly a middle-aged woman, whose top is shrinking, while her lower body is expanding. At this point, she's straight out of one of those old '80s paintings by Botero. The kneeless momjeans aren't concealing it very well. She's definitely old enough to know better than to do what she did.

And 12:27, you need to go to an actual printed dictionary, and look up the word "Ignorant". Hint: the word does NOT mean, "A truth I find threatening, and which I don't want others acknowledging".

By the way, you obviously did not take Logic, in college. The (presumed) fact that there are snobs at every college, negates neither that there are snobs at Ole Miss, nor that there are MANY snobs at Ole Miss.

12:27 = never attended college at all and bought Ole Miss gear at Walmart because they liked the confederate flag of it all.
But sure. LOL, You are better than others.

10:12 I am sorry your precious daughter thought it appropriate to vandalize public property. Perhaps this was not the first time your daughter acted out in a reprehensible manner without holding her responsible. But, there comes a time that your daughter must be held accountable. Will it be now or later??

So to the “it was too easy to move defense” people, is that like the vehicle break ins where they say “but the car was unlocked”??

Future OM legal scholars there…. Lol

I think caning is an appropriate punishment for these scholars.

Oxford Eagle says the "females" have been identified. So, where are their names? What are their stories?

I've looked at pics from several websites/TV stations, and the three primary persons involved, look to be a fortyish woman and her two children.

Going to events at Ole Miss, seems to be seen as a way for unwanted women to get "back on the market" and find new mealtickets - I mean, "a new man in my life, to cherish and love, forever" - some divorced man who's done well, to whom a gal can say, "You know, I've always been in love with you, but only now am I gitting the courage to tell you so!"

If you didn't catch a rich boy while you were an actual student at Ole Miss, then going BACK... over and over... will surely do the trick. A winner never quits, and a quitter never wins!

As I heard one thrice-divorced condo tenant of mine say, to a fellow alum, "You NEVER graduate from Ole Miss!"

And the best way to git noticed, up at Ole Miss, is to vandalize property, with your children in-tow!

Other TIPS for "keeping relevant": Cut off the top of an old slip, and tuck it into those trendy jeans you dug out of Ain't Darla's attic, after her desiccated corpse was found, last year! (we know you always MEANT to call her. Nobody's blamin' you) Take lots of diet pills, to give yourself courage! (worked great for Hot MurderDad Chris Watts!) Fire-up some doobies with the kiddos, to show 'em you're a hip-&-with-it mom! Git yourself on TV, by pulling little pranks! If Brittnyi Spears can do it, so can you! Now, git yourself out there, girl!