Monday, June 7, 2010

All Time Low's Six Flags Incident.



  As many of you may have heard, All Time Low has now been banned from playing any Bamboozle Roadshow that is at a Six Flags venue. Why? because they allowed their fans to come up onto the stage with them, and unfortunately security over reacted. This resulted in 15 year old girls getting maced on stage and thrown out of the park. Alex Gaskarth tweeted about the incident not too long after it happened, saying, "I don't care how rowdy a crowd of kids are, there is absolutely no excuse for the police at SIX FLAGS to spray mace in our fans faces." and also went onto say, "That kind of protocol is insane for an all ages show at a theme park. A girl who looked to be about 15 walked up to me and said she was removed from the crowd after being maced. Are you fucking kidding me? That being said, you were an absolutely incredible crowd, and that may have been one of the best shows we've ever had the chance to play."( all over a series of tweets) . Martin Johnson from Boys Like Girls also commented on the incident through twitter by saying "you mace our fans you fucking die. bands locked on buses for defending helpless fans getting MACED for having a great time at a rock show. i dare security to come backstage."

  Sadly, this isn't the first time that bands we love have had an unfortunate run in with security, last year Forever The Sickest Kids & We the Kings were in a situation in Philly where the police got angry over the fact that they were not packed up by the time curfew rolled around, and beat down one of We The Kings' roadies sending him to the hospital. Ironically, they were also doing the Bamboozle Road Show..

  What do you think, was this an overreaction? or was it necessary to mace these kids?

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