A Guy Snuck Into USC's Football Facility Off The Street And Got All The Way To The Practice Field To Participate In Drills

Well here's something you don't see every day. Apparently the security at the USC football facility has been a little lax recently, because some dude walked right in off the street and got all the way onto the practice field with a helmet and was fielding punts.

InsideUSC — So the imposter apparently showed up at the McKay Center and found his way inside to the locker room. He then grabbed a helmet, jersey and cleats. At this point, give him credit for getting ahold of these items. No pads were worn Thursday so he didn’t need to worry about those.

He then walked over to Howard Jones Field, right past the event/staff security guards, who wouldn’t stop someone in a football uniform. 

The imposter then started catching punts when a football staffer finally noticed him and wondered who he was. Campus security was called and asked to come over and detain him. The imposter was almost left but two staffers restrained him. He was then taken to the locker room area underneath the McKay Center and Heritage Hall.

And as insane as that is, that's not even the craziest part. This guy had been enjoying the perks of being a student-athlete at USC for quite some time. According to InsideUSC, the imposter ate at the athletic dining facility, used the hot tub in the facility with other players and was even sleeping in a suite at the Los Angeles Coliseum.

Now if you really needed a place to sleep and eat, I could see how this plan would be an interesting course of action. But the fact that this dude wanted to go out on the field and catch some punts means he's really just a psychopath with some huge balls. Apparently the USC facility's fingerprint scanning system is on hold because of COVID, but he still should have had to get past several checkpoints to get a helmet and cleats and head out to the field. I'm fascinated by how this went down.

“What gets me is the guts the guy had to just walk in like he belonged,” said the security source. “He must have been a cool customer in the McKay Center. If he hadn’t tried to return punts at practice, he might still be out there because they might not have noticed him.”

How long was he embedded with the team with nobody wondering who he was? Apparently the only thing that got him caught was trying to go Devin Hester on an FBS squad. I think it's a reasonable theory that this weirdo had been in the football complex for so long without anybody catching on that his brain actually thought he was supposed to go out there for spring practice because he was really part of the team now.

I guess people walking in off the street and embedding themselves into notable organizations has been a real nationwide problem this week.