UK band Sports Team robbed at gunpoint while getting coffee in California on first day of US tour: ‘Get down!’

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an Instagram post Tuesday.The band’s tour manager bravely confronted one of the robbers, who in turn pulled “out a gun,” according to footage of the ordeal that was filmed from inside the gas station“Man runs in saying some guys are smashing into a van,” they continued, alongside video footage of the robbery. “Ran out to try to stop it and find masked guys ransacking the van.”A post shared by Sports Team (@sportsteam)The “Here’s the Thing” hitmakers said that local police advised them to “submit a police report online” as they dealt with the materialistic losses and a smashed passenger window.The band claimed the brazen thieves stole their laptops, in-ear monitors, cameras, and other personal items, Rice told Sky News.Sports Team’s instruments were safe and was able to perform at the Goldfield Trading Post in Sacramento Tuesday night.“They can take our Nintendo Switches but they can never take our ability to play rock songs about motorways,” they quipped. “In all seriousness pretty shocking how resigned everyone seemed to be to it. ‘It happens.'”Recounting the incident hours later, the band’s drummer said everyone “ran out, shouting.”“Somebody opened the door and was like, does anybody have a white Sprinter van?

Because you’re being robbed right now,” Greenwood told BBC News.“Lauren, our tour manager, was slightly ahead of me, and somebody else ran past us in the opposite direction, and said, ‘Careful, he’s holding something.'”“I really thought I was about to watch someone get shot, because it took a while for our tour manager to realize.