Typically we come throughout information that makes it appear is that if there are actual life “Grand Theft Auto” characters strolling amongst us. Take the lead singer of an LA punk band who made his solution to the opposite smart peaceable area of Yosemite Nationwide Park and allegedly spent the day tearing shit up in a really un-punk means.
The LA Occasions experiences that Anthony Mehlhaff — lead singer of a punk band known as Most cancers Christ — might have was an actual life Trevor from GTA V on August 21. In response to native authorities, Mehlhaff started his Yosemite go to by harassing a pregnant waitress at a restaurant. It solely acquired wilder from there, in response to the Occasions:
The entrance man for a hardcore Los Angeles punk band named Most cancers Christ faces a slate of legal fees after allegedly occurring a “terrorizing trek” via Yosemite Nationwide Park and surrounding areas Wednesday, in response to native regulation enforcement.
Anthony Mehlhaff, 40, allegedly assaulted a restaurant worker, led park rangers on a automobile chase, crashed the automobile, stole a bicycle after which threatened employees at one other lodge with a knife, in response to Mariposa County Sheriff Jeremy Briese.
Then, Mehlhaff allegedly stripped to his underwear, tried to kidnap a retailer supervisor, stole that supervisor’s automobile and began ramming it into one other automobile on an area highway, crashed once more and was taken into custody earlier than assaulting deputies throughout an evaluation at an area hospital, Briese wrote in a press release concerning the incident.
“This man drove throughout our county terrorizing our guests and neighborhood members,” Briese stated. “I’m extraordinarily glad that nobody was critically injured. This man’s conduct was erratic and harmful.”
Mariposa County Sheriffs arrested Mehlhaff and charged him with every thing from automobile theft and theft to kidnapping. He’s being held on $100,000 bail. In response to the Occasions, in social media posts Mehlhaff refers to himself as “Saint Anthony” whereas he and his band appear to think about themselves as a faith and their followers, “congregants.” This description of the band’s music from its personal web site actually explains rather a lot:
“Spreading the gospel via their distinctive model of Reptilian Energy Violence, Saint Anthony and The Snake Folks have been despatched down from Heaven on a holy mission to make all politicians, pedophiles, and cops undergo slowly,” the band’s web site learn.
Whereas that’s all properly and good, actual punk rockers rage in opposition to the system. They don’t terrorize harmless folks simply going about their days. Appears Mehlhaff has rather a lot to study.
This story initially appeared on Jalopnik, our sister website, on Monday, August 26.
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