Saints Fans Shoot Man's TV To Settle Bet

(AP) NEW ORLEANS -- A Louisiana man who bet against the New Orleans Saints has lost his 60-inch high-definition, flat-screen TV to a backyard firing squad, but he also became an Internet star.

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Wayne A. Spring told his friends that if New Orleans beat the Washington Redskins on Sunday, anyone who wanted could come to his house and shoot his television.

Spring said as soon as the undefeated Saints kicked the winning field goal, his phone started ringing.

About a dozen gun-toting Saints fans showed up at his home in Albany, about 50 miles northwest of New Orleans, and shot up his TV in the back yard.

Spring put the video on YouTube and says it has had over 145,000 hits in three days.

Authorities said the TV shooting apparently didn't break any laws.

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Comments

[Christian Martinez]

06:42 PM on 12/13/2009

Did this Saints fans REALLY need a scope to kill this TV?

[Buddhabman]

12:09 PM on 12/13/2009

Armed and drunk ;-)

[uncomplicatedlife]

07:02 PM on 12/12/2009

Nobody wearing earplugs!
But at least the beer helped dull the pain.

[Azrael1701]

02:16 PM on 12/12/2009

What happens if the Saints win the Super Bowl?

[GoDems2012]

03:07 PM on 12/11/2009

OMG ...disturbing even for hardcore fans lol

[Forester]

01:08 PM on 12/11/2009

"...and the home, of the, brave."

[Gover]

10:15 PM on 12/10/2009

Gotta give the guy credit for making good on his bet.

[johnqsittinzen]

08:31 PM on 12/10/2009

That...

was...

terrifying.

[GoDems2012]

03:12 PM on 12/11/2009

Teabaggers by day, Saints fans all the time!

[Andy la rue]

07:41 PM on 12/11/2009

My thoughts exactly. Drunk hicks with guns in this political environment makes any progressive think twice about being willie-nillie on owning guns.

[simpleperson]

11:17 AM on 12/12/2009

The loony left.

I love how you judge others and look down on those not up to your "standards". People like you are the problem, not those in the video.

[VietVet67]

05:36 PM on 12/10/2009

Yeee-haw!

[tuckgraph]

05:18 PM on 12/10/2009

Subtitles would help.

[Brandon Mendoza]

05:14 PM on 12/10/2009

anyone else see a whole lot of drunk driving in that video?..every person getting out of their car had drinks in their hands!! "Authorities said TV shooting apparently didn't break any laws." but drinking and driving sure does!

[johnqsittinzen]

08:35 PM on 12/10/2009

Dude, there was a whole lot of drunk SHOOTING in that video. Those guys were chitfaced and blasting off a semi-automatic rifle and a hand canon that would tighten Dirty Harry's sphincter, and you're worried about their driving?

[kevski]

12:30 AM on 12/11/2009

LOL

[Copeword]

04:02 PM on 12/10/2009

He deserved it, for betting against the Saints. You just don't do that.