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Pearl Jam’s Bassist Mugged in Atlanta

Posted on May 17, 2009

Pearl Jam’s bassist, Jeff Ament, along with another band employee, were recently mugged outside of a recording studio in Atlanta, Georgia. Though the mugging took place on April 27th, it wasn’t reported to the major media outlets until recently.

Jeff and another band employee were outside of the recording studio in a rented Jeep Commander. As the story goes, three masked men armed with knives emerged from the surrounding woods and smashed the windows of the Jeep. They reportedly got away with around $7300 in cash and goods, including a BlackBerry (boo hoo).

Ament tried to bail and started running from the scene, but one of the masked men caught up to him and tossed him to the ground. The suspect then plucked his backpack, which included his passport. The suspects then fled back into the woods and hopped into a black Nissan Maxima, their supposed getaway car. Security cameras outside of the studio captured the incident but are unable to identify the suspects since they cleverly wore masks. Gee, criminals sure are getting smart these days!

Jeff suffered only minor injuries and has recovered just fine. Thank God…I’d be pretty pissed if he was never able to perform with Pearl Jam again!

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