Your Demise Held at Gunpoint at Canadian Border

Posted on Feb 23rd 2010 12:00PM by Chris Harris Comments

Anyone who's ever been to Canada will tell you the people who live there are extremely laid back and affable. The police in Canada? Not so much. This is the lesson learned by British hardcore outfit Your Demise, who had an interesting experience with the law during a recent trip through the Great White North.

According to guitarist Stuart Paice, Your Demise were less than ten miles from the Canadian border, fresh from a stop at Tim Horton's (Canada's answer to Starbucks) where they'd loaded up on coffee and bagels, when three police cruisers pulled up behind them, sirens blaring. "We pulled over, completely baffled as to why we where being stopped, as we had done nothing wrong," Paice explains.

After pulling over, one of the cops shouted for the driver to exit the vehicle. The band's driver, Danny, did as he was told. He put his hands up in the air, and walked backwards towards the officers, who had their guns drawn.

"We then witnessed the officer put a gun into Danny's back and drag him towards the police cruiser," says Paice. "Before we knew it, Danny was handcuffed and in the back of the squad car. Needless to say, we now had some mental stuff going through our heads. Next, they shouted for the passenger," the band's tour manager, "to get out. Same thing: Gun, handcuffs, car [hood]!"

The band, Paice says, started giggling nervously and then heard, "All of you! Get out!" The band members did, "and we were told to put our hands in the air and get down on our knees (in the snow, mind you). All the while, we [were] held a gunpoint. So we get out in the freezing snow, on the ground and the cop starts to search the van. I mean, it was like '24' Jack Bauer s---."

It quickly dawned on the band that they were caught up in something bad and that the police had the wrong people. "The police were responding to a call in which a shooting had just occurred on the very road we were traveling on," Paice says. "We were the first car that the police saw after receiving the call, so naturally, they pulled us over. This was a classic case of 'wrong place, at the wrong time.' Let's just hope that the person got caught and the victim was in good health."

The band was eventually released after their brief detainment. Last night, Noisecreep spoke with Paice, and he recalled the situation. "When it all happened, it was more a taste of, 'What did we do?' We were scared to the point of britchin' it," he explains. "They handcuffed us and the whole bit. Now, we've been handcuffed before, but never for or anything like this. Plus, they knelt us in the snow after we had started to undress because we were getting' ready to sleep so needless to say, it was ridiculously cold and eerie."

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cindy

Never heard of them

February 24 2010 at 2:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
eschwa22

your all retarded if you think the Canadian police acted wrongly, they had a just reason to act they way they did....also anyone thinking this is worse than the US is sadly mistaken. Our police force acts much worse than this, and on a more regular basis too

February 24 2010 at 1:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
scoliosisjones

rick-
wow....great logic. you single-handedly disproved your own theory/logic by stating that you are an 'obama type person', meaning black. last time i checked, african-american was a race, therefore bringing that issue up is considered 'racist' statement. also, by you asking about Tanzania (which was completely ridiculous) you were in fact bringing up the race of tanzanians, i.e. stating there are no white people there.
furthermore, what makes you think the police that pulled over this shitty band weren't indeed black?

go back to school.

February 24 2010 at 1:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
avone

fuck those french faggots i mean canadians

February 24 2010 at 1:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Fuck niggers

Silly liberals. Did it ever occur to you that NOT EVERYONE LIKES BLACK PEOPLE!? Blacks sure as shit hate whites. Some of us that actually have a backbone are not afraid to say we can't stand them either. And all of you that cry racism like it is something bad, should go picket in front of Jesse Jackson's office in Chicago, because he is one of the most racist people of them all. The USA wouldn't be half as f***ed if we got rid of all the murdering, raping, gangbanging blacks. That is truth. DEAL WITH IT. Obama is a perfect representation of what blacks do to society...f***ing it all up. Funny how no one will say shit when hateful racist words come from a black. Let a white speak out and they are "racist". You people are f***ed. Look up the murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom. THAT is racism at work you ignorant fools. Maybe if one of you guilt-ridden whities ended up in their position you may feel differently.

February 24 2010 at 1:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
phil

B*LLSh*T. Bands will do ANYTHNG to get a press story. This is just PR for a bad band

February 24 2010 at 1:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Noel

Been to Canada once and stayed in Hamilton. Will never go back. The people were very rude at the hotel, and the people on the street wouldnt help us find a nice restaurant. But the fishing was great at Algonquin Park.

February 24 2010 at 1:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Miss Kimmy

Hey guys. Sorry about your luck. But hey at least now you will have a story to remember and laugh about. I know I would've freaked out too!

February 24 2010 at 12:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rick

what if white rockers were held at gun point in tanzania and I said I don't see w.bush type people there because of the weather would I be called a racist?? If saying obama type people is RACIST same goes for saying w. bush type people. DUH! but I can say it cause I'm a obama type people and being I am I can't be a RACIST. ROFLMAO!!

February 24 2010 at 12:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
buttercup86xt

Pete, you are an idiot, I am sorry haha. First of all, because of these cops stupidity, the REAL shooters all got away because they didn't take the time to get more information or use actual logic and common sense, instead they just assumed they were right and took in the first people who "were in the vicinity".
Sorry but because of their laziness and lack of organization, innocent people got taken in for something they didn't do and real criminals got away.
But I guess to you, as long as someone gets taken to jail, innocent or guilty, thats a good thing?

February 24 2010 at 12:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply