Shinedown Crew Pulled Over Because Rental Car Had Stolen Plates

Members of Shinedown’s crew have shared on social media a scary incident during which they had been pulled over by police with weapons drawn. As it seems, police thought the automobile the blokes had been driving in had been stolen, because the rental automobile they got on the airport had stolen plates.

Both Jeramy “Hoogie” Donais and photographer Sanjay Parikh shared video from the incident on their socials. Though definitely a scary incident, Parikh shared his reward for Arizona regulation enforcement in how they dealt with the state of affairs, revealing that all of them had “an unfortunate laugh” after the state of affairs had been resolved.

“Well… that was fun. You CAN’T make this stuff up,” stated Parikh, in sharing bits of video from the incident.

“This is the PERFECT example of the amazing law enforcement here in Arizona. Thank you for doing your jobs diligently but also being honest humans that could see the situation for what it was and be so kind about it. Huge shout out to the Tempe PD and Sheriff’s office that showed up,” he added.

Explaining how issues transpired, the photographer famous, “Last night Hoogie, Ricky and myself wanted to hang out and went for a little drive. I figured I could show them around some Arizona hometown spots while we’re in town. We went around the Biltmore, Old Town Scottsdale and made our way to Tempe town lake. We noticed that an officer started to get suspiciously close to us driving down Mill. He followed for a little while longer until the infamous red and blue lights came on..”

“In the car, the 3 of us were all absolutely perplexed regarding what in the actual hell just happened,” he continued. “We saw traffic had been stopped on the opposite direction by an officer along with 8 cop cars now behind us requesting all hands to be placed out the windows. With 8+ guns drawn directly at us, one by one we were asked to walk backwards and then cuffed.”

So why had been they detained? “Turns out, this rental car that was rented from the airport had stolen plates,” revealed Parikh with amusing. “Once all the officers saw that we were calm with the situation and not car thieves we were told the situation and all had an unfortunate laugh about the whole thing. It’s never a dull moment.”

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While Parikh appears to be wonderful along with his therapy by the police, inside the video itself Hoogie appeared none too thrilled with the rental automobile firm, noting, “Avis, thanks for that. I was handcuffed. Our colleagues were handcuffed.”