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Most embarrassing UofA alum?

Posted: Mon May 10, 2021 8:22 am
by UAEebs86
I think it used to be Geraldo. Lately that border wall guy (not sure if he's actually an alum). But coming on down the stretch is Bob Baffert:



Re: Most embarrassing UofA alum?

Posted: Mon May 10, 2021 9:03 am
by EastCoastCat
Dude, you certainly don’t know enough alums.

Augie Busch IV rolled his Corvette and killed a chick back in the 80’s on East River Road and it got “taken care of” a la Ted Kennedy/Chappaquiddick.

Re: Most embarrassing UofA alum?

Posted: Mon May 10, 2021 9:22 am
by Merkin
EastCoastCat wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 9:03 am Dude, you certainly don’t know enough alums.

Augie Busch IV rolled his Corvette and killed a chick back in the 80’s on East River Road and it got “taken care of” a la Ted Kennedy/Chappaquiddick.
I was a student then. Picked up some bartender. Missed one of the curves and drove off the road. Left the woman in the Vette and walked home. The next day went down for a blood test. TPD "lost" the vial. Not sure if Linda Rondstadt's brother was the police chief then, but it was around the same time. Or maybe Peter Rondstadt replaced the prior police chief who "retired".

Re: Most embarrassing UofA alum?

Posted: Fri May 21, 2021 1:49 pm
by 97cats
Jun 21, 2019, 05:39pm EDT

For This Anheuser-Busch Heir, Trouble Followed

It was early in the morning of Nov. 13, 1983, when police discovered the broken body of a 22-year-old woman lying by the side of a road in Tucson, Arizona.

Near Michele Frederick’s corpse was a smashed 1984 Corvette containing a .44-caliber Magnum revolver and a wallet with a Missouri driver’s license issued to August A. Busch IV. Busch, then a 19-year-old student at the nearby University of Arizona, was heir to one of the most legendary beverage fortunes of all time, the Anheuser-Busch brewery, home of Budweiser and Michelob.

When Pima County deputies arrived at Busch’s townhouse later that morning, they found him naked, with a sheet covering his midsection, according to the book Under the Influence: The Unauthorized Story of the Anheuser-Busch Dynasty. The top of his body was covered in dried blood, and police found bloody clothes, a semiautomatic AR-16 rifle and a loaded sawed-off shotgun nearby. Busch told deputies he wasn’t sure what happened, but he agreed to give blood and urine samples, which were later lost, according to the book.

Eight months later, the Pima County Attorney’s Office declined to press charges against Busch, though they acknowledged he had been the driver of the Corvette, which crashed and resulted in the death of Frederick, a local bartender. According to the county attorney’s office, people who saw Busch before the car accident said he’d consumed alcoholic beverages but was “not under the influence of alcohol.”

Evidence at the scene indicated the car was likely traveling 45 miles per hour, “in excess of the posted speed limit,” according to a press release by the county attorney, but “insufficient alone to support any homicide charges.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinsto ... d3d96e9645

Re: Most embarrassing UofA alum?

Posted: Fri May 21, 2021 2:24 pm
by gronk4heisman
Is he related to the Busch swim family (Frank, Augie, Sam) or just an unfortunate coincidence?

Re: Most embarrassing UofA alum?

Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 12:43 pm
by UAEebs86
A new contender:


Re: Most embarrassing UofA alum?

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:55 am
by CatsbyAZ
Woody Johnson is an Arizona alum?!?!

Had no idea!!

Re: Most embarrassing UofA alum?

Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:51 pm
by UAEebs86