A New Jersey man was charged after purposely crashing his automobile right into a police station whereas blasting Weapons N’ Roses‘ ‘Welcome To The Jungle’.
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Nobody was harm or injured and one officer was capable of rapidly keep away from being struck by the automobile that the person – named John Hargreaves, aged 34 from Belvidere, NJ – was driving (per AP.) The incident occurred on September 20.
Surveillance footage exhibits the second when Hargreaves’ gold SUV rams into the police station’s squad room. He instantly exits the car and places his arms within the air as law enforcement officials direct him on the place to go to be able to arrest him. The video didn’t seize the audio of the 1987 hit.
Based on a press launch from the police division, Haragreaves “exited the car and seemed to be celebrating as he was apprehended by officers on scene as his automobile stereo blared the tune ‘Welcome to the Jungle’”.
The press launch additionally confirmed that previous to crashing into the station, Haragreaves additionally purposely crashed into the storage of a non-public residence “in an try and scare or harass the home-owner who the defendant knew”.
For crashing the police station, he was charged with one rely of terrorism, one rely of inflicting widespread harm or injury, one rely of aggravated assault, one rely of housebreaking, one rely possession of a weapon for an illegal goal and one rely of felony mischief.
Press Launch from incident at police headquarters on 09/20/2023
Posted by Independence Twp. Police on Friday, September 29, 2023
‘Welcome To The Jungle’ was launched because the second single from Weapons N’ Roses’ debut album ‘Urge for food For Destruction’. Upon its launch, the observe peaked at Quantity seven on the Billboard Scorching 100 Chart and Quantity 24 on the UK Singles Chart.
In different Weapons N’ Roses information, the band just lately introduced the addition of extra dates to their North American 2023 world tour.
The North American leg of the tour started in Hershey, Pennsylvania on August 11 and runs till November when the band wrap up at Heaven & Hell Competition in Mexico Metropolis.
Elsewhere, Slash’s Les Paul Hunter Burst guitar, which was used to put in writing Weapons N’ Roses’ iconic debut album ‘Urge for food For Destruction’, is being auctioned for $1million (£796,105) later this month.
