via LSUPD

Did you think there was some sort of statue of limitations on being arrested for eating someone’s goldfish after a football game? You’re wrong, according to LSU police who have arrested Max Taffin, an Ole Miss student according to his Twitter, for what went down after the 2016 Ole Miss-LSU game. That’s right, police have cracked a case all these years later and it involves a goldfish that would be dead by now anyway.

Poor Max Taffin. Now he has a mugshot, a Google Search history and it’s all over a stupid college prank that will now have him sending out emails to news outlets begging them to delete their stories because he can’t get a job after college. I’m telling you right now, there will be an email in my inbox over this and it’ll start like this…”Bro, the case was thrown out. Think you could do me a favor and delete your post?”

From WBRZ:

Police have arrested a man Tuesday after he allegedly ate someone’s pet inside an LSU dorm more than two years ago. According to an arrest warrant obtained by LSU police in 2016, the victim allowed her ex-boyfriend and two of his friends to stay at her dorm in Blake Hall on the weekend of the LSU-Ole Miss football game. When the victim returned to her room after the game on Oct. 22, she allowed one of the men, Maxwell Taffin, inside to retrieve his belongings. As Taffin exited the room, he remarked to the victim that she should “check your fish tank” before hurrying out the door. When the woman checked the tank, she noticed her pet fish was missing. She later showed police a photo she received from Taffin’s phone following the encounter which showed feces in a toilet accompanied by the text “found your fish”.

It’s unclear how LSUPD finally tracked down Taffin, but he’s now charged with animal cruelty and improper telephone communications. A quick look at Max’s Facebook — really shocked a college bro would even have Facebook these days — shows that he’s a bro out of New Jersey where you can probably get away with these sort of pranks while they take it super serious down in Louisiana for some reason.

Let’s go back to see how the game ended up that day. Leonard Fournette went berserk that day with 284 rushing yards on 16 carries and three touchdowns:

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