Guitar-Wielding Protestor Gets Truck-Sticked By Cop: WATCH

The guitar smash is one of the most iconic moves in American history.

Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, and John Belushi have all performed it to widespread acclaim. Even Kurt Russell smashed a guitar — a very expensive vintage Martin — in The Hateful Eight.

But notice anything about all of those moments? None of them brandished the guitar at or near a police officer, and that's the grave mistake that one protester at the University of Pittsburgh seems to have made that led to them being bulldozed through the Earth's crust and, ironically, halfway to Gaza.

Like many institutions of higher education, pro-Hamas protesters have set up shop at Pitt. According to The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the encampment at Pitt — which I'm sure smells awful; think of the worst Comic-Con nerd funk times ten — turned on local law enforcement.

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Protesters were heard shouting, "oink oink piggy piggy" and "all cops are bastards."

So, when one protester came flying toward police, you can understand why one officer didn't want to wait around and see if this lunatic was going to throw down a lousy version of "Wonderwall."

Oof. They went down hard, but this is very much a "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, and an out-of-tune guitar" situation.

By the way, is anyone more unlikable than the "I'll bring a guitar to the protest/party" Guy? I'm a guitar player, so I understand how enjoyable it is, but nothing is more annoying than the guy who shows up to a get-together with an acoustic guitar he bought on Facebook Marketplace and then plinks and plunks through Green Day's "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)."

Now, imagine that dude, but who thinks he's going to change some minds with his protest tunes, maaaaaaan.

All of us would want to stiff-arm that douche into the hedges on the Pitt quad too.

CBS News reports that protesters went home (probably to their parents' houses) around 2 am on Tuesday, one of them probably needing to stop at Guitar Center sometime this week.