The Twitter account Bobcat Barstool posted a photo of six men in front of a house with a sign that said, “You taught them to walk we’ll teach them to ride,” with the caption “Save some women for the rest of us.”
The photo was later picked up by the Twitter account SheRatesDogs where it amassed over 30,000 likes and nearly 4,000 retweets. The tweet was captioned “....... anyway ladies, tasers are $10 on amazon prime.”
Travis Grafton, one of the men pictured in the photo, was asked if it was him on Twitter and he replied: “Regretfully, yes,” with the crying-laughing emoji.
Grafton tweeted: “Yo we messed up. We saw some banner’s pretty vulgar before we put that up. Looking back on it, it was a bad judgment call on all of us. We just thought it would be funny, but obviously it wasn’t. We’re all sorry.”
Grafton did not respond to a request for comment and has since deleted his Twitter account.
Bobcat Barstool tweeted two other banner photos with similar messages. One said, “Your son might want to come and stay but we’re gonna make him cum and leave.” The other said “Girls, my mint pod won’t be the only thing in your mouth.”
In response, OU tweeted: “If you see any sign or banner around town that seeks to demean any gender, race, sexual orientation, etc. please report it here: http://ohio.edu/pacsm.”
No formal reports of the banners have been issued to Athens services, according to the reporting page, which is updated when an issue has been reported.
“As in years past, the University will continue to work with our city partners to ensure codes are being enforced,” Carly Leatherwood, a university spokesperson, said in an email.
