Is Toomer’s Oak a Venerated “Object?”
After Auburn’s victory over the LSU fighting Tigers this weekend, we awoke Sunday morning to learn of yet another assassination attempt of a Toomer Oak. The crime was captured on surveillance video here and here. According to press reports the suspect, Jochen Wiest, has been charged with Public Intoxication (violation), Desecration of a Venerated Object (misdemeanor), and Criminal Mischief, 1st Degree (a felony). “Auburn Police arrested Jochen Wiest, 29, of Auburn, Alabama,
