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If This is What They Do to Inanimate Objects in Columbus, Imagine What They'd Do to You

Feb 16, 2007 – 6:38 PM

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Columbus is a scary, scary place, as any rival fan who has ever stepped foot in the kill zone can easily tell you. That's why it shouldn't come as any surprise to anyone that a good-natured publicity stunt by Nike would have chillingly disastrous and hilarious results.

See, way back in the weeks leading up to the BCS Championship game, Florida and Ohio State had a competition to see whose students could run more miles, and when the Gators triumphed, a statue of Albert the Gator was erected on campus. It doesn't take any modicum of intellect to figure out what happened next. Five hours later, Albert was capsized and being hacked to pieces like a Hussein obelisk after the fall of Baghdad. Sit back and enjoy the hilarity: