Sammy Hagar is laughing off a faux information story that is gone viral in latest days, during which a person was reportedly arrested for attempting to impersonate the Pink Rocker so as to money faux royalty checks.
The put up, which seems to have originated from the Mount Vernon II Information & Rumors Fb web page (embedded beneath) reads as follows:
An area man was taken into custody yesterday after allegedly impersonating rock legend Sammy Hagar at a number of native companies, together with two banks and a vape store.
Police say Ronnie Putnam, 58, of Summersville, walked into a number of institutions claiming to be “the actual Pink Rocker” and demanding to open accounts beneath the identify Sammy Hagar Enterprises, LLC. Witnesses say Putnam even carried out a short acappella model of “I Can’t Drive 55” to show his id.
“He mentioned he was on tour however wanted to money a royalty test,” mentioned one confused teller. “He was carrying pink sun shades and smelled faintly of margarita combine, so I believed it was really him.”
Putnam was arrested after producing a do-it-yourself ID card that learn “Sammy Hagar, Rock God.” He faces fees of fraud and disorderly conduct. When requested for remark, Putnam merely shouted, “I CAN’T DRIVE TO JAIL!”
The Fb web page’s intro part makes their true nature fairly clear: “Whereas there are precise information tales posted, please keep in mind there’s additionally rumors & parody!”
Regardless of this, a handful of reports shops ran with the story as if it was actual. Then the Mount Vernon police reached out to make clear that no such particular person was of their custody.
In a put up to his X account, Hagar notes that “each particular person” he is aware of had despatched him the story, along with his greatest downside seeming to be the very fact the concept that anyone might mistake the person whose photograph seems within the story for him. “Who is aware of with AI today if that is actual or not,” he declares, “[but] anyone that will fall for this man saying he is the Pink Rocker. most likely could not identify one in every of my songs.”
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