Auction Winner Smashes Taylor Swift Guitar

This one isn't KC-specific BUT it does offer a glimpse at growing antipathy and maybe a peek at political frustration working against the pop diva.

Here are the basics . .  .

Gary Estes, 67, says he paid $4,000 for the instrument at the Ellis County Wild Game Dinner in Waxahachie, an annual charity event that benefits agricultural-based education efforts for local youths.

When he went to get the guitar, Estes took a hammer to it in a moment captured on video that has gone viral — but he insisted he has no will against Swift . . .

But after having talked to the man, Auctioneer Craig Meier, a spokesperson for the event, said it was an obvious political statement.

"Taylor Swift, it became a political thing, and that was kind of the gist of it, just a light-hearted bit of a dig at Taylor for coming out politically and entertainers using their influence to influence politics," Meier said.

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There were more splinters than teardrops left on a Taylor Swift-autographed guitar after a Texas man smashed it apart as "a joke" - after paying thousands for it at auction, the man said Tuesday.