{"id":36501,"date":"2019-04-08T23:15:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T23:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36501"},"modified":"2019-04-08T23:15:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T23:15:01","slug":"hey-we-won-lets-destroy-some-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36501","title":{"rendered":"Hey, we won! Let&#8217;s destroy some property!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I am trying to grasp what went through the mind of the dipsh** who said Saturday night: Hey, we won that basketball game tonight, so let&#8217;s go tip some cars over and light them on fire!<\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech&#8217;s Red Raiders won a game Saturday to put them into tonight&#8217;s NCAA men&#8217;s college basketball championship contest against Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if Tech is going to win. I hope the Red Raiders do. I also hope Lubbock can keep its sanity to avoid a repeat of what happened Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Lubbock police had to deploy its riot squad to put down the disturbance.<\/p>\n<p>This is the kind of behavior that mystifies me. There is no explaining it. Teams win at games that determine championships and their fan(atic)s go bonkers . . . which I guess is why the word &#8220;fan&#8221; is derived from &#8220;fanatic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So . . .<\/p>\n<p>If the Red Raiders win tonight, let&#8217;s keep our cool. Hoist an adult beverage if you&#8217;re so inclined. Same for those of you in Charlottesville, Va., if the Cavaliers manage to win.<\/p>\n<p>No need &#8212; not ever! &#8212; to destroy people&#8217;s property.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to grasp what went through the mind of the dipsh** who said Saturday night: Hey, we won that basketball game tonight, so let&#8217;s go tip some cars over and light them on fire! Texas Tech&#8217;s Red Raiders won a game Saturday to put them into tonight&#8217;s NCAA men&#8217;s college basketball championship contest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36501\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hey, we won! Let&#8217;s destroy some property!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[8547,8548,4721,8549],"class_list":["post-36501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-lubbock-pd","tag-ncaa-mens-final","tag-texas-tech","tag-uva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36502,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36501\/revisions\/36502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}