{"id":87679,"date":"2011-04-22T02:30:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T07:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=87679"},"modified":"2011-04-23T05:52:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T10:52:53","slug":"auburn-tree-poisoning-suspect-goes-on-radio-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=87679","title":{"rendered":"Auburn Tree Poisoning Suspect Goes on Radio Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/2011\/04\/22\/auburn-tree-poisoning-suspect-goes-on-radio-show\/harvey-updyke\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87680\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/04\/Harvey-Updyke-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Harvey Updyke\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-87680\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBIRMINGHAM, ALA. (AP) \u2014 The Alabama fan accused of poisoning his rival school&#8217;s famous trees has gone a radio show, saying he is going to get what he deserves. Harvey Updyke is accused of poisoning the oak trees at Auburn&#8217;s Toomer&#8217;s Corner. Updyke is a former Lufkin resident. He also served as a state trooper in south Texas.<\/p>\n<p>He told Birmingham radio show host Paul Finebaum on Thursday that he has &#8220;done a lot of good things, and undoubtedly that wasn&#8217;t one of them.&#8221; He says he doesn&#8217;t want to be remembered as &#8220;Harvey the tree poisoner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 61-year-old Updyke appeared in court Wednesday for a preliminary hearing. Shortly afterward, he told police he was attacked at a gas station. Updyke told the radio show that he doesn&#8217;t blame Auburn fans for being angry with him. He ended his appearance on the show saying: &#8220;Roll Damn Tide.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIRMINGHAM, ALA. (AP) \u2014 The Alabama fan accused of poisoning his rival school&#8217;s famous trees has gone a radio show, saying he is going to get what he deserves. Harvey Updyke is accused of poisoning the oak trees at Auburn&#8217;s Toomer&#8217;s Corner. Updyke is a former Lufkin resident. He also served as a state trooper &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=87679\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Auburn Tree Poisoning Suspect Goes on Radio Show<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 19:00:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87679"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87950,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87679\/revisions\/87950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}