Reply With QuoteI have to admit...that even for a bass player, that was pretty dumb.
Regular Fretter
Dumb bass player
MANSFIELD, Mass. —
The bass player for a rock band has been arrested and charged with robbing a Massachusetts pharmacy of prescription painkillers just hours before a show.
Attleboro police say Michael Todd, bassist for Coheed and Cambria, entered the Walgreen's pharmacy after 1 p.m. on Sunday and showed the pharmacist a note on his phone saying he had a bomb.
Police say the 30-year-old Todd, of Anaheim, Calif., then made off with six bottles of Oxycontin and fled in a cab headed to the Comcast Center in Mansfield, where his band was to open for Soundgarden that night. He was arrested at the concert hall before the show, and the band played without him.
He's scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Attleboro District Court.
The band's website says the tour will continue.
How incredibly stupid.
Maybe I should send them my playing resume.
Luke Skyrawker
I have to admit...that even for a bass player, that was pretty dumb.
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Master Fretter
Wow. I figured it was just some local loser at first, then I read the part about Coheed & Cambria. Pretty dumb thing to do.
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Hopeless Noodler
Maybe he had a really bad headache, and he was in too much of a hurry to call his doctor?
That is a pretty stupid thing to do, no matter who you are. Don't rock stars have connections for stuff like that anyway?
-Sean
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