Guns N' Roses Gets Someone ELSE Arrested For A Change
It's a music day, it seems. This particular piece of "What the Fuck"-ness is credited to 411Mania:
Guns N’ Roses Song Mistaken For Death Threat
A school custodian's after-hours karaoke performance prompted a police response when a teacher thought she was being threatened over the loudspeaker. State police say a teacher at Booth Free School in Roxbury, Connecticut barricaded herself inside a classroom Wednesday when she mistook someone singing a Guns N' Roses song over the public address system for a threat. She was working after hours and thought no one else was in the building. Then she heard someone say over the loudspeaker that she was going to die.
Six troopers and three police dogs showed up and found three teenagers, one of them a custodian at the school, who had been playing with the public address system. Police say one of them sang "Welcome to the Jungle" into the microphone. The song contains the lyrics "You're in the jungle baby; you're gonna die."
The teenagers were cuffed on the ground for about 15 minutes while police investigated. They were released after being questioned and state police Sgt. Brian Ness said they did not realize the teacher was in the school and will not face charges.
Okay...wow. Now, don't get me wrong, if I was working late at a school and I heard "You're in the jungle baby...you're gonna DIEEEEEEE!" come out of nowhere, I'd probably jump myself. However, I feel the need to point this out:
The lyrics to "Welcome to the Jungle"
You see that? You see where the offending lyric is HALFWAY into the song? Now, if they literally just shouted that one line into the loudspeaker--which it doesn't seem like is the case, per the above story--maybe. MAYBE it's worth calling the cops (though me, I'd just be the smart person and get the fuck out of the school). Otherwise...someone needs to listen to some hard rock STAT, take a chill pill, stop watching horror films, and get a clue. If someone's gonna kill you, they're not going to announce it over the school loudspeaker first. THEY'RE JUST GOING TO KILL YOU!
And lastly, to the would-be rock stars...welcome to the 21st Century. You weren't even alive when Appetite For Destruction came out. Go rock out to Fall-Out Boy or Stuffing Gerbils or whatever crap band is filling the "Alternative Rock" airways now. G N' F'n R is MY crap music, and you can't have it!
--Jer