British Band Sports activities Workforce Robbed at Gunpoint in California as U.S. Excursion Starts

British selection rock band Sports activities Workforce have had an unlucky begin to their newest U.S. excursion, having been reportedly robbed at gunpoint.

Consistent with a press unencumber, the incident happened round 8am on Tuesday (Dec. 3) at a Starbucks in Vallejo, CA out of doors of San Francisco. Having introduced their west coast excursion the night time sooner than with a display at San Francisco’s Kilowatt, the band’s transient forestall was once interrupted by way of an onlooker alerting them that their excursion van was once being ransacked and robbed.

“The band tried to intrude however had been met with a gun being brandished and took quilt,” the clicking unencumber defined. “The band known as the police, and had been surprised to listen to they wouldn’t attend the scene of the crime.

“As a substitute, they had been advised by way of police to record a record on-line, which they have got finished. Laptops, private pieces, passports and different valuables had been stolen.”

The crowd additionally shared photos of the incident on social media, including their very own account of the way it spread out as neatly.

“Stopped for espresso. Guy runs in pronouncing some guys are smashing right into a van,” they wrote. “Ran out to check out to forestall it and to find masked guys ransacking the van. Get started yelling and so they pull out a gun. Police reaction was once ‘post an internet record.’ Misplaced a large number of private equipment, however they didn’t get the tools so riding directly to Sacramento to play this night.

“They are able to take our Nintendo Switches however they are able to by no means take our skill to play rock songs about motorways. In all seriousness lovely surprising how resigned everybody appeared to be to it. ‘It occurs’. 9am at some petrol station Starbucks. Wild.”

Sports activities Workforce are proceeding their present excursion, acting in Sacramento afterward Tuesday night. The band are traveling within the lead-up to their imminent album, Boys Those Days, which is scheduled to reach on Feb. 25. It’s the band’s 2nd consult with to the U.S. this yr, having carried out a handful of east coast dates in early November.