Slayer
You love Slayer. You want to see them desperately. However, you're also a drunken dipshit and get yourself kicked out of the venue before Slayer goes on. What do you do? Well, if you are one intrepid music aficionado, you try and swim back into the venue.
Slayer
That may sound insane, and it is. However, the insane part isn’t that he was trying to swim into the venue. He wasn't so drunk he tried to swim across the land. This man, named Chris LaRocque, got kicked out of the Budweiser Stage in Toronto, Canada. This particular venue happens to be surrounded by Lake Ontario. So yeah, it's actually possible to swim back to the Budweiser Stage.
LaRocque tried his best after getting the boot by security. This happened during opening act Testament, by the way. He didn't even see Anthrax, let alone Slayer. Also, this is Slayer's farewell tour, so the opportunities to see them are dwindling by the day. In an interview with Exclaim, LaRocque insisted he wasn't that drunk, but he also said, "I had my camouflage hat on, so I thought that might help." Maybe he's not the best judge of drunkenness then.
Anyway, the dude actually did make it back to the venue after having taken a swim in the lake, but security immediately seized upon him and took him to get medical assistance. Gary Holt from Slayer tried to get them to let LaRocque back in, but that would have set a bad precedent.
This particular venue happens to be surrounded by Lake Ontario. So yeah, it's actually possible to swim back to the Budweiser Stage.
LaRocque was given tickets to a show in London, Ontario, so hopefully this time he can keep his composure. Also, if anybody ever told me that a drunk guy had tried to swim back into a venue after getting kicked out, I would guess the band was Slayer pretty close first. That's metalheads for you.
