21. He Was Arrested At University For Stealing A Christmas Wreath From A Hotel... And For Being Rowdy During An American Football Match
During a Yale-Princeton American football match in 1967, Bush was arrested for leading a crowd of "Yalies" in a post-match celebration which involved scaling the goalposts and trying to tear them down. Interestingly, however, Bush was also arrested at university a second time - less than six months previously. While drunkenly stumbling through the streets of New Haven, not far from Yale, in December 1966, Bush and his friends noticed a huge Christmas wreath on the front door of a shop. Bush and his friends tried to make off with the wreath, only for police officers to drive-by at that exact moment and catch them in the act - resulting in their arrest. Bush would later admit he "might have had a few beers" and committed a harmless college prank...
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During a Yale-Princeton American football match in 1967, Bush was arrested for leading a crowd of "Yalies" in a post-match celebration which involved scaling the goalposts and trying to tear them down. Interestingly, however, Bush was also arrested at university a second time - less than six months previously. While drunkenly stumbling through the streets of New Haven, not far from Yale, in December 1966, Bush and his friends noticed a huge Christmas wreath on the front door of a shop. Bush and his friends tried to make off with the wreath, only for police officers to drive-by at that exact moment and catch them in the act - resulting in their arrest. Bush would later admit he "might have had a few beers" and committed a harmless college prank...