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IRON MAIDEN- drummer Nicko McBrain was arrested and charged with assault yesterday (July 26) after intentionally hitting a parking attendant with his car before a concert at the Tommy Hilfiger at Jones Beach Theater, state park police said.
Michael "Nicko" McBrain, 51, of London, was trying to enter the VIP parking lot in a black 2004 Jaguar at the theater when he began arguing with a parking attendant about 8:30 p.m., state park police Maj. Richard O'Donnell said.
McBrain was apparently miffed after the attendant, who didn't recognize the aging rocker, demanded to see a parking pass for the V.I.P lot outside the theater, said Maj. Richard O'Donnell of the New York State Park Police.
O'donnell said McBrain arrived at Jones Beach around 8:30 p.m. for the group's concert, and was stopped as he entered the exclusive parking area.
After a confrontation with the 30-year-old worker over credentials, the park employee stood in front of McBrain's car, blocking the lot entrance.
The employee said Mr. McBrain struck him in the legs," O'Donnell said.
The man backed up, but stayed in front of the car. McBrain, told him to "move or he would hit him again," O'Donnell said.
The man, 30, whose name was not released by the police, refused to budge, and McBrain surged the car forward again, nailing him and causing the man to fall forward on the car's hood.
State park police arrested McBrain and released him on an appearance ticket before the concert started. It is part of IRON MAIDEN's "Give Me Ed ... 'Til I'm Dead" tour.
McBrain was charged with third-degree assault and is scheduled to appear in First District Court in Hempstead Sept. 16, O'Donnell said. Representatives for IRON MAIDEN could not be reached last night.
He should be lucky that the charge was not attempted murder.
On the other hand, standing in front of a car when its irate driver has warned that he is going to be driving forward, is beyond stupid. Especially when the warning has been accompanied with a nudge. Failure to heed such a warning is right up there with ignoring your mommy when she says not to jump off a cliff. When you fling yourself into the face of inevitable and obvious harm, the blame rests wholly with YOU. This event brings to mind that war protester who laid on a railroad track to stop a munitions train and got his legs chopped off.
Very true and well said on the behalf of the parking attendants conduct in such a situation, but I wouldn't say all the blame rest solely on the parking attendant. Both involved share the blame. I would say more so on the drummer. It seems to me that the drummer was a complete idiot for getting irrate and making such an ignorant and immature decision just because someone didn't recognize him as a celebrity. Not everyone listens to Iron Maiden, including myself, and if I saw the guy on the street today I wouldn't know 'em from John Doe. It seems that people with celebrity status such as him would be able to handle theirselves better instead of acting like immature children.
That guy is cool, was he high on cocaine or alcohol poisoning?
In that case, both parties are equally stupid. Those are flawed examples, to compare with. For one thing a train barreling down a railroad track, can't all the sudden, come to a clear stop, and therefore unlike the drummer of Iron Maiden, can't make that judgment, to stop short of the protester, and a cliff cannot, for the sake of the child wish itself into a security net, to catch the falling child. The Iron Maiden drummer HAD that judgement call, available to him. The blame should NOT fall alone on the parking attendant, who should have called the proper authorities, but also on the musician, who if he has had half a F@#$ing brain, should have produced some kind of identification, and proof, when needed.
how could you see his ID standing in front of the car--dumbass should've had the car towed if it didn't belong there instead of daring someone to hit him--i would have too
... should he go to jail.
Irong Maiden has this song in their repertoire (it was written before McBrain joined the band and it's on the classic THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST):
The Prisoner:
(smith/harris)
On the run kill to eat
You’re starving now you’re dead on your feet
Going all the way nature’s beast
Do what I want as I please
Run fight to breathe it’s tough
Now you see me now you don’t
Break the walls I’m coming out
Not a prisoner I’m a free man
And my blood is my own now
Don’t care where the past was
I know where I’m going ... out
If you kill me it’s self defence
If I kill you then I call it vengeance
Spit in your eye I will defy
You’ll be afraid when I call out your name
I’m not a number I’m a free man
I’ll live my life how I want to
You’d better scratch me from your black book
Cos I’ll run rings round you