--- title: Dog Keg Stand: SUNY College Students Arrested After Tweeting Photo description: College is the worst canonical: https://time.com/19127/college-kids-arrested-after-making-dog-do-keg-stand-and-tweeting-about-it/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-11T15:00:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:40.139Z og:title: College Kids Arrested After Tweeting a Pic of a Dog Doing a Keg Stand og:description: College is the worst og:url: https://time.com/19127/college-kids-arrested-after-making-dog-do-keg-stand-and-tweeting-about-it/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4bc1a26b8cc9f5bf/698684d93bc99954f01a2446/150675770.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4779 og:image:height: 2688 og:image:alt: keg og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: College Kids Arrested After Tweeting a Pic of a Dog Doing a Keg Stand twitter:description: College is the worst twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4bc1a26b8cc9f5bf/698684d93bc99954f01a2446/150675770.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # College Kids Arrested After Making Dog Do Keg Stand And Tweeting About It > Sponsored content. 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Two students at the State University of New York at [Brockport were arrested](http://rochester.twcnews.com/content/news/all%5Fnews/rochester/719867/arrests-made-after-photo-of-dog-drinking-from-keg-surfaces/) after an image of a black lab being held upside down over a keg — nozzle positioned at the opening of the pup’s mouth — went viral. (You can click [here](https://twitter.com/deafgeoff/statuses/443047071763808256) to see the offensive photo, if you must.) Nursing student Robert Yates, 20, took and then tweeted the photo, which led to his arrest on charges of torturing/injuring an animal. Shane Oliver, 20, was photographed holding up May the dog’s hind legs. He was arrested with the same charges. They’re both scheduled to appear in court April 2. Some people were horrified: > [](https://twitter.com/CALIfornia2397/status/443138306268598272) Some defended the culprits: > [](https://twitter.com/allyson%5Fdelaney/status/443029942796681216) And others seriously missed the point: > [](https://twitter.com/ChurchofCrowley/status/443138886353420288) Luckily Mya, whose owner wasn’t at home at the time of the incident, is safe and sound: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/19127/college-kids-arrested-after-making-dog-do-keg-stand-and-tweeting-about-it/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/19127/college-kids-arrested-after-making-dog-do-keg-stand-and-tweeting-about-it/"},"headline":"College Kids Arrested After Making Dog Do Keg Stand And Tweeting About It","datePublished":"2014-03-11T15:00:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:40.139Z","description":"College is the worst","url":"https://time.com/19127/college-kids-arrested-after-making-dog-do-keg-stand-and-tweeting-about-it/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime","animals","College","abuse","arrested","Dog"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4bc1a26b8cc9f5bf/698684d93bc99954f01a2446/150675770.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4bc1a26b8cc9f5bf/698684d93bc99954f01a2446/150675770.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"keg","caption":"150675770","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/19127/college-kids-arrested-after-making-dog-do-keg-stand-and-tweeting-about-it/","name":"College Kids Arrested After Making Dog Do Keg Stand And Tweeting About It"}}]}] ```