Mizzou Grad Causes $100K In Damages After He Drives His Volkswagen Onto The Basketball Court...Yes, Through The Arena And Onto The Court

STL TODAY  • Fans are expected to flock toward Mizzou Arena for the upcoming basketball season — but not like this.

A Columbia man drove his Volkswagen Passat through Mizzou Arena and onto Norm Stewart Court early Sunday and caused an estimated $100,000 worth of damage, MU police Maj. Brian Weimer said Monday.

At 7:15 a.m. Sunday, MU police were dispatched to Mizzou Arena for a report of property damage. Officers determined that around 4 a.m., the suspect drove his vehicle through a closed gate on the south side of the arena. He ran through a garage door and drove into a dock area where he damaged several golf carts that were stored in the area. He also drove his car onto the basketball court.

The man couldn’t leave through the area he used to enter the building, so he drove through the arena’s press gate.

Nathaniel Conant, 23, a recent MU graduate and temporary worker in the athletics department, turned himself in to MU police Sunday afternoon.

Anybody looking for a way to become a legend on their college campus, this is just as good an idea as any:

Drive your car literally ONTO the basketball court.

Through the entrance gate, through the loading dock, through all the golf carts in the loading dock, into the arena, onto the basketball court, out through the media gate.  Not even sure how that is remotely possible but, if you say so.  $100,000 in damages for the most impressive joy ride of all time.

Need security footage of this in a badddd way.