Is "Nickelback" Canadian for "Nickel Bag?"

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Consequence Of Sound.net ...Kootenai County (Idaho) sheriff’s deputies stopped two men, 23-year-old Eric Swinford and 22-year-old Riker Morrow, at a gas station after officers thought they overheard the pair discussing marijuana. While the two men claimed to be talking about another car “blasting Nickelback”, officers instead heard “nickel sack”...(T)he officers were probably thinking of a “nickel bag”, which is approximately $5 worth of marijuana...

What followed was a tense and awkward detainment, which was all captured on video by Morrow’s cell phone. Officers were unpersuaded by the Nickelback alibi, calling it a “bullshit story”, and then proceeded to interrogate the two and search their vehicle. As The Washington Post points out, “the audio seems to indicate that (a deputy) drew his gun just before pulling one of the men from the car and handcuffing him"...

Watch the entire incident...And remember: check yourself before you talk about post-grunge in front of cops.

There really is a rock band named Nickelback...they're Canadian, so there might be a language barrier. But suppose the cops had been right -- what if Nickelback is actually a secret code word?



For all we know, they give away a free bag with their premium fan club memberships, or to everyone who has bought one of the 30 million albums they've sold -- so let's not be so quick to trash the cops on this one!


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[TlalocW]

1. No, it's Canadian for

Oh, shit, these guys again. *punch radio channel button*

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[KamaAina]

3. Imagine what it must be like in the Great White North

Canadian broadcast stations are required to broadcast a high percentage of Canadian content. This means that Canadian acts, not only Nickelback but Bieber and Celine Dion as well, are way overplayed.

[Erose999]

7. OTOH, Canada doesn't have nearly as much censorship as the States. Canadian TV shows don't have to

"tone it down". So in Canada they don't have to bleep shows like The Daily Show.

[KamaAina]

2. I thought it was a position in Canadian football

[Art_from_Ark]

17. Five Nickelbacks equal one Quarterback

[clarice]

4. I thought it was what you got when you give the lady at Starbucks a 10 spot for a cup of coffee. nt

[KamaAina]

9. DUzy!!

[Glassunion]

13. DUzy indeed...

You won the internets...

[clarice]

14. Gosh....thanks ya'll.....I'm swooning. nt

[Erose999]

5. Its Canadian for "Clear Channel Shit Rock". I support brutal repression of anyone who publicly

endorses Nickelback, including the use of tasers, CS gas, papper spray, rubber bullets, and riot batons. Any assembly concerning Nickelback on US soil must be dispersed at all costs. This Canadian shit rock is a threat to the soverignty of the United States and must be contained on the other side of the Canadian border.

[Action_Patrol]

6. +1

I'm a big fan of the words that came out of your brain/finger combo.

[treestar]

21. Duzy

[samsingh]

8. who cares about nicketback

[Iggo]

10. It ain't "approximately" five dollars worth. It's exactly five dollars worth.

[ManiacJoe]

11. I have always wondered about the youtube culture's desire to

repost old videos as your own.

[Glassunion]

12. Rock band that is so bad that they cause children to be detained by the police.

I'd have tazed their ass.

[JaneyVee]

15. Nickelback is Canadian for Shitty music.

[rocktivity]

16. UPDATE: New Nickelback Album Due In November

To be titled No Fixed Address. DEFINITELY don't mention that around a cop -- you might get busted for drugs AND vagrancy!


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[alp227]

18. Better link

http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/07/nickelback-got-two-men-detained-by-police-in-idaho/

[rocktivity]

19. Fixed, thanks n/t

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[jmowreader]

20. Who yells "those guys were blaring Nickelback" loud enough for cops to hear?

This may come as news to you: a new fun hobby is to stir up some shit with the cops, record it with a video camera then post the video to YouTube. (For extra entertainment, go to YouTube, search for "Free Keene," then notice he has two basic video types up there: him jerking around with the cops who pull his ass over for driving on the public highway with a homemade license plate, or him going to court to have full-blown trials for parking tickets.) Noticing that these guys were ready to start recording the second the cop got there, but for some reason they "forgot" to record the nickel sack-or-Nickelback exchange, my guess is these guys drove around until they found a place where there were cops, pulled in, got their camera ready, then started talking about a "nickel sack" at the top of their lungs until the police came over.

[rocktivity]

25. Well, as new fun hobbies go, I sure don't recommend it

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especially not to minorities.

I think the story is legit -- if they REALLY wanted to deliberately "stir up shit with the cops", they would have mentioned Anthrax or Slayer or Megadeth or My Life With the Thrill Kill Cult!


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[treestar]

27. Yes, it shows the Canadian cops are pretty mellow

In the US, that would be a deadly hobby very possibly.

[HughBeaumont]

22. As in "I want the Nickelback that I paid for this bargain bin CD"

[treestar]

23. If that's Canadian police brutality

I'll take it!

The goings on up North!

Entertaining.

Nickelback does suck. I can't stand the way the vocals are mixed!

[rocktivity]

30. This happened in Idaho

around 100 miles south of the border it SHARES with Canada.


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P.S. Autotuning -- it's not just for video pop tarts anymore!

[treestar]

32. OH something about Nickelback being Canadian got me confused

Canada still should take them back, along with Ted Cruz.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

24. You can get smoke for only $5? nt

[Go Vols]

29. Last I remember getting a nickle bag

was in the late '70s.

[Jake Stern]

26. It would take more than a nickel bag for me to tolerate the whiny singing of

their lead vocalist.

[tabbycat31]

28. This

[GReedDiamond]

31. I just made the mistake of looking at a few Nickleback videos...

...and that was some horrible shit, in a class of its own.

I know this is a little off-topic of the OP, but, who the fuck buys this crap?

Especially annoying was the one called "Rockstar," which features cameos of different people, both famous and not, lip-syncing the words - including the likes of Gene "I'll sell anything or anyone out for a buck" Simmons as well as the Motor City Chickenhawk, Ted "The Ped" Nugent.

I'd always heard bad things about Nickleback, but never before bothered to listen to any of their, uhhhm, "music."

Now I understand.