Sports Team, a British alternative rock band, posted an Instagram video Tuesday showing what appeared to be masked men stealing their belongings from their tour van.
The band said they were robbed at gunpoint while on the U.S. leg of their tour outside San Francisco. The video showed the chaotic scene unfolding as voices called for bystanders to “ring the police” and “get down.” Masked men appeared to ransack the van as a band member exclaimed that his laptop had been taken.
“Just been robbed at gun point 10 minutes into the US tour. Stopped for coffee. Man runs in saying some guys are smashing into a van. Ran out to try to stop it and find masked guys ransacking the van,” the band wrote in the Instagram caption. “Start yelling and they pull out a gun.”
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The indie group watched and filmed some of the incident unfolding from inside a Starbucks. The video showed multiple people ducking and running for cover past the coffee shop window.
“Police response was ‘submit an online report.’ Lost a lot of personal gear, but they didn’t get the instruments so driving on to Sacramento to play tonight,” the caption continued. “They can take our Nintendo Switches but they can never take our ability to play rock songs about motorways. In all seriousness pretty shocking how resigned everyone seemed to be to it. ‘It happens.’ 9am at some petrol station Starbucks. Wild.”
The thieves stole stage equipment, laptops, passports, valuables and other personal items while they stopped for breakfast at a Starbucks in Vallejo, California, the six band members said in a statement to the BBC.
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A passerby alerted the band to the robbery and when they attempted to intervene the suspect brandished a gun, the band told the outlet.
“So we all ran out, shouting. 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,” the band said. “I really thought I was about to watch someone get shot, because it took a while for our tour manager to realize.”
The video showed the suspect waving what appeared to be a gun at the band’s manager.
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“The thing that struck me about it was the resignation. The people around us weren’t very panicked at all. It seemed like a very everyday occurrence,” lead vocalist Alex Rice said.
“It was very discombobulating because they just carried on with their shift,” drummer Al Greenwood added.
The band said they contacted police, but officers declined to respond, instead instructing them to file an online report about the incident. (RELATED: Masked Men Abduct Victoria’s Secret Model Luciana Curtis And Family, Imprison Them In Shack: REPORT)
Sports Team played their gig Tuesday evening in Sacramento.
