The buyer of an auctioned guitar signed by Taylor Swift took a hammer to his new purchase, footage shows. The spectacle happened at an event in Austin, Texas on September 28. In the video, the crowd is heard cheering on the man takes a hammer and smashes the guitar.

A viral story about a man who spent $4,000 on a guitar autographed by superstar Taylor Swift and then promptly smashed it with a hammer was proven to be not exactly what it seemed. The guitar was an item up for bid at an auction held by the Ellis County WildGame Dinner organization in Waxahachie,

A man who for some reason smashed up a guitar with a hammer in Texas apparently thought it had been signed by Taylor Swift — but it was not, in fact, an official Swift-certified guitar. In a video that has gone viral,