Moved the goalposts, eh? Is that a crime?

Sometimes, in fact, it is. Rather often, really. Here, for instance:

Vandals put goalposts across the path of a London-bound express train just 24 hours after the fatal Potters Bar rail crash ... A hunt is under way for a group of children, believed to be aged between 10 and 11, seen running across the rail tracks at Hinksey, just outside Oxford.  ...

There's more.

Such as this:

Gosport Borough PR Officer Jeremy Fox is appealing for more help ... vandals broke into the ground overnight and damaged the club shop, goalposts, the back wall of the stand and smashed a great deal of glass ...

Or this:

Littlemore Youth Football Club has been concentrating on away games after vandals trashed changing rooms and burned goalposts and players' bibs at Herschel Crescent ...

Or this:

VANDALS left human excrement on Nuneaton Borough's football ground ... the goalposts at the Cock and Bear end of the Manor Park ground had been ripped out and tossed into the stands.

And finally, from Texas Monthly,  this flashback to 1968:

"I was leaving the field, and when I looked back, George was standing in the middle of the crossbars, helping to bring down the goalposts," says classmate H. Rey Stroube III. The Princeton campus police quizzed the Yalies involved but brought no charges. "I was escorted to the campus police place, and the guy said, 'Leave town,'" the governor said. "So I was once in Princeton, New Jersey, and haven't been back since."

Take this as your Next Open Thread.

Comments

[Kagro X]

It was from Princeton, I suppose, that the newly pacified W. went on to his rugby match against Fair Harvard.

[RonK, Seattle]

As W tells it, he wasn't arrested ... he was just encouraged to get out of town ASAP.

Hmmm. Not a bad idea.

[Kagro X]

Right, Ron! An early example of the success of your "exit strategy" plan.

[Kagro X]

So, "Top Secret," eh? That'll be a hot "hearing" tomorrow.

And what's the scoop on Libby trying to finger Russert? Tim should demand a special segment on tomorrow night's national news. Let's put our cards on the table.