KENSINGTON, P.E.I. — A police department in western Prince Edward Island is threatening to impose the Nickelback treatment on anyone who drinks and drives.
The Kensington Police Service shared a social media post over the weekend promising drunk drivers will be listening to one of the Canadian band’s tunes while riding in the back seat of a cruiser if they’re arrested.
Const. Robb Hartlen says on Facebook that if you’re foolish enough to get behind the wheel after drinking then a tune performed by lead singer Chad Kroeger and the band “is the perfect gift for you.”
He says if the department doesn’t have to arrest anyone for impaired driving, it will avoid him having to “ruin a perfectly good unopened copy of Nickelback.”
The band has been a huge commercial success, with multiple Juno wins, but is also gleefully maligned by some detractors.
It has been the subject of spiteful petitions, protests and a Chicago mayor was once pressured into clarifying he wasn’t a fan.
Kroeger told The Canadian Press in a 2014 interview that the critics have actually done the band a favour by heightening the public discussion about the group.
Re: That should be enough to deter any would-be drunk driver
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2016 7:41 pm
by Burning Petard
The local University radio station, during fund raisers, used to threaten to play 'Amelia Earhart's Last Flight' if they did not get x calls in the next y minutes. That was so terrible that it was stopped when people would deliberately NOT act to have that song played.
snailgate
That should be enough to deter any would-be drunk driver
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2016 2:56 am
by RayThom
Burning Petard wrote:... 'Amelia Earhart's Last Flight'...
I was curious and, yes, it's quite painful to listen to in its entirety.
Re: That should be enough to deter any would-be drunk driver
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2016 12:52 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
Threatening to play Nickleback would not stop a "real" alcoholic from driving drunk.
Re: That should be enough to deter any would-be drunk driver
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2016 2:03 pm
by Long Run
Those who wanna be big rockstars will look at DUIs as merit badges.
Re: That should be enough to deter any would-be drunk driver
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 12:11 am
by rubato
oldr_n_wsr wrote:Threatening to play Nickleback would not stop a "real" alcoholic from driving drunk.
I don't think anyone intended this to be parsed literally. It was a little joke.
yrs,
rubato
Re: That should be enough to deter any would-be drunk driver
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 12:17 am
by Joe Guy
Threatening to play Nickelback could have the opposite of the intended effect. The experience might cause a person to go on a drinking binge afterwards.
Re: That should be enough to deter any would-be drunk driver
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 3:48 am
by Sean
rubato wrote:
oldr_n_wsr wrote:Threatening to play Nickleback would not stop a "real" alcoholic from driving drunk.
I don't think anyone intended this to be parsed literally. It was a little joke.
yrs,
rubato
Nickelback threats are no joke!
Re: That should be enough to deter any would-be drunk driver
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 3:20 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
rubato wrote:
oldr_n_wsr wrote:Threatening to play Nickleback would not stop a "real" alcoholic from driving drunk.
I don't think anyone intended this to be parsed literally. It was a little joke.
yrs,
rubato
My reponse was as literal as the Kensington Police Services posting was.