In January 1996, Bono and his family were on vacation as guests of fellow musician Jimmy Buffett. Buffett had been extolling the awesomeness of genuine Jamaican jerk chicken, so the decision was made to pick some up.

The fact they were in Miami was no problem because Buffett had a Grumman HU-16 Albatross flying boat he called Hemisphere Dancer. He got it cheap from the US Navy and could fly it himself.

Buffett, Bono, his family, Island Records head Chris Blackwell, and a co-pilot piled into the plane and set course for Montego Bay. But once they arrived, the water was too rough to land, so they diverted to Negril.

However, this diversion was unannounced and when local authorities saw the plane, they assumed it belonged to another drug runner. So they opened fire. More than 100 rounds were fired at the plane with several hitting the fuselage and shattering the windscreen. Fortunately, no one was hurt, no one was charged, and everyone soon hightailed it back to Miami.

There’s no word on whether Bono got his jerk chicken.

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The early days of punk were anything-goes times. The idea was to do virtually everything differently, especially you could be extra strange and provocative.

Enter The Cramps, a New York-based band that was a regular at the legendary CBGB. But their most famous show was with a San Franciso band called The Mutants. In 1978, the two of them journeyed to Napa to play a free show for the psychiatric patients at the Napa State Hospital.

The whole thing was captured on film and released as a 27-minute documentary called, We Were There to Be There. Why did they do it? To bring attention to government efforts to defund and privatize mental healthcare.

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If you’re into the White Stripes and Jack White and you’re looking for the Holy Grail of those songs, you want a 7-inch single released on October 3. 1998, released on Italy Records, a long-gone Detroit label, and originally sold for six dollars. S

ide one features “Lafayette Blues” while the B-side is “Sugar Never Tasted So Good.” This was the second-ever White Stripes single and only 15 copies are known to exist. However, one of those 15 is very special.

Fourteen 14 were created by Dave Buick, the owner of Italy Records while one features the work of Jack White. While Buick’s versions sell for around $525 on the collector’s market, the Jack Version sold for sold for $25,000 US dollars in June 2026.

This makes it one of the most valuable singles in the history of vinyl.

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It’s always risky when you corral a bunch of humans in a field for one, two, three days, or more. The promise is that everyone will have fun experiencing music and the company of like-minded music fans.

But humans being humans, things will go wrong. It could be something as common as bad weather. Not much you can do about that except do your best to prepare for that contingency, whether it be blistering heat or pouring rain.

But then there are cases where carelessness, negligence, criminal behaviour, and even terrorism destroy everything.

Once the dust settles and lawsuits are settled, promoters, venues, and music fans pick themselves up and move on, hopefully learning something from the disaster they survived—but others didn’t.

This is why it feels so strange that there are music festival disasters that people either don’t know about or have forgotten entirely.

This is episode 73 of “Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry.” And this is the second half of stories involving music festival disasters that have been forgotten or swept from history, even though people have been hurt and even died.
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Pretty much all the songs we listen to today features multiple tracks of instrumentation and vocals. The term for this is “polyphonic.” But when did the idea of layering music begin?

The earliest evidence of a piece of music with two parts—at least one that was written down—is from around the year 900 when someone wrote something praising Saint Boniface, the patron saint of Germany. It was discovered in 2014 after the strange notation—a way of writing down music before the modern music notation was invented—was translated.

Musicologist now consider this composition, which appears at the end of a manuscript called Life of Bishop Maternianus of Reims, to have lain the foundations for Western music that have lasted for more than a thousand years.

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A former Montreal priest allegedly viewed suspected child pornography on public transit while serving his sentence for sexually assaulting two boys, says the Parole Board of Canada in a recent decision.

The board revoked 64-year-old Brian Boucher’s statutory release last week, concluding a series of incidents and new child pornography charges showed a return to what it called his “crime cycle.”

Boucher is serving an eight-year sentence for sexually abusing two boys he met through his work as a priest. He had been living at a Montreal community correctional centre since his statutory release in July 2024.

According to the board’s decision, authorities received a tip in April 2026 that Boucher had been seen viewing pornographic material, possibly child sexual abuse material, on public transit.

Boucher was arrested April 9 and charged in August with possessing and accessing child sexual abuse material. He has denied viewing pornography on public transit and told correctional officials he was shocked by his arrest because he believed his reintegration was ”going well.”

The decision also describes earlier concerns about Boucher’s compliance with a special condition prohibiting direct or indirect contact with his victims.

The board said correctional officials received information that Boucher was ”repeatedly in the presence of family members of one of the victims” while attending mass at a church in May and June 2025. It said he made ”direct eye contact with at least one family member” and wandered through common areas despite directives from his case management team.

In late 2025, the Parole Board modified Boucher’s release conditions to order him to stay away from sections of the Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grace and Town of Mount-Royal boroughs of Montreal.

When confronted, the board said Boucher denied the allegations and offered inconsistent explanations. He also acknowledged disobeying instructions governing his attendance at mass “on at least one occasion.”

The board said Boucher continues to deny the offences for which he was convicted and has shown little progress despite completing several programs for sex offenders.

“You appear impermeable to intervention, failing to recognize a problem of sexual offending, and showing an ongoing lack of remorse or victim empathy,” the board wrote.

Boucher is eligible for statutory release before the end of his sentence, as required by law, but will face stricter conditions, the board said in its decision.

He will be required to live at an approved residential facility without leave privileges and will be prohibited from accessing pornography, contacting minors except under limited approved circumstances, or going to places where children are likely to gather.

He will also be limited to one mobile device or SIM card unless authorized and must allow his parole supervisor to inspect his phone, including messages, photos, emails, social media, and browser history.

The board also imposed geographic restrictions in parts of Montreal to prevent Boucher from encountering his victims or their families.

The case will return to court on Nov. 23.

Boucher worked in 10 Montreal-area churches between 1985 and 2015. He was formally stripped of his priesthood in 2020.

— with files from Morgan Lowrie in Montreal

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Authorities in Zambia are warning residents to avoid consuming, handling and distributing meat from wild animals after a deadly anthrax outbreak.

Affected animals include hippos, elephants, buffalo and a crocodile, all of which died after consuming the toxic, naturally occurring bacteria.

The country’s National Disaster Risk Management Division alerted the public to a “reported outbreak of suspected anthrax cases and environmental pollution in Muchinga Province,” in northeastern Zambia last week.

“The Government, through the Provincial and District Disaster Risk Management structures, has undertaken assessments to establish the extent of the outbreak and put in place measures aimed at containing the situation, protecting communities and safeguarding livelihoods,” the statement reads.

Members of the public have also been warned not to “slaughter” live animals or “butcher” animals found dead, as handling infected carcasses can expose people to anthrax.

“Avoid contact with blood, tissues, and other materials from suspected infected animals, and promptly report unusual or unexplained animal deaths to the relevant veterinary, health, or disaster management authorities,” the government department said.

In a weekend update, Norman Chipakupaku, National Coordinator for the National Disaster Risk Management Division, said veterinary experts and police officers were investigating the outbreak.

He confirmed that 46 hippos, five buffaloes, one crocodile and eight elephants had died in the outbreak. The carcasses were eaten by local people, he explained; 12 became infected and are being treated.

“The good news is that nobody has died,” he said, adding that an aircraft and Ministry of Health personnel had been sent to the outbreak area to conduct further testing and treat affected patients. Officials suspect the number of infections will rise, Chipakupaku said.

Authorities are working to mitigate the risk of infected meat being smuggled out of the area and into larger markets, he continued, saying police roadblocks have been put in place to block vehicles that may be carrying contaminated meat.

Hunting has also been temporarily suspended in the infected area until a full investigation is complete.

Anthrax is caused by a spore-forming bacterium called Bacillus anthracis that survives in soil and affects grazing animals, which can become infected when they consume the dormant spores. People usually contract the illness from consuming meat from infected livestock.

People can get anthrax spores in a cut or scrape in the skin, breathe them in, or eat food or drink water contaminated with spores, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Anthrax occurs naturally in soil all over the world. It can also be grown artificially and has been used in bioterrorism attacks. In 2001, powdered anthrax was mailed to media headquarters and the offices of U.S. senators in Washington, D.C., and Florida, killing five people and causing 17 others to fall ill.

Anthrax can be released without detection, and it can be hard to see, smell, or taste the spores.

It can be disseminated in food, drink and in the air. Inhaling released anthrax spores can make people sick very fast, and an attack may go undetected until doctors see a lot of patients with anthrax symptoms and can alert public health authorities.

Symptoms can range from small itchy bumps or blisters to early flu-like symptoms such as fever, shortness of breath, coughing up blood, confusion or dizziness, according to The Cleveland Clinic.

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Five people charged in connection with an armed robbery at a downtown Montreal jewelry store may be connected to similar crimes in the surrounding area, Montreal police say

The accused, ranging in age from 16 to 21, are facing charges of breaking and entering, armed robbery, possession of burglary tools, disguise with criminal intent, mischief and possession of stolen property.

The charges relate to a robbery that occurred at a jewelry store on Clark Street near Viger Avenue in the Ville-Marie borough.

Police said it occurred around 12:30 p.m. on Friday, when masked suspects allegedly forced open the door and smashed display cases to steal jewelry.

One employee was in the store at the time but was uninjured, police said.

The suspects fled in a vehicle, but were arrested near the intersection of Saint-Louis Street and Alexis-Nihon Boulevard in the Saint-Laurent borough a short time later. The stolen jewelry was also recovered.

Montreal police Commander Iad Hanna said in a news release that an initial investigation has led police to believe the same suspects may be involved in similar “smash-and-grab robberies” elsewhere in the greater Montreal area.

He said the investigation is ongoing in collaboration with other police forces.

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U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that he would be a sufficient guardrail against rogue artificial intelligence, claiming that any efforts to limit the technology is part of a “SICK conspiracy.”

Trump was pushing back against calls by tech leaders such as Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk to have greater government oversight of AI. Many tech leaders generally say their goal is to develop the technology in ways that promote safety, address legal liability, feed economic growth, advance science and preserve national security.

The president maintained that his presence in the Oval Office should assuage any fears about AI, which has become a source of controversy after a series of hacks in recent months that showed AI agents could be working to deceive humans.

“The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!” Trump posted on social media.

Trump specifically said that the administration has already stopped the AI company Anthropic “from doing bad, or potentially bad” things. Anthropic has endured an uncomfortable relationship with the Trump administration, with the Pentagon trying to label the company a security risk and the government issuing a temporary ban of one of its more advanced models.

The president went even further in a Monday afternoon post that asked “when, in the History of Business, did anyone see the Leaders of an Industry call for Regulation that, if strongly implemented, will drive them into oblivion and bankruptcy?”

The president then added that the potential threat that AI could pose to humanity was a hoax, despite clear warnings by many of the experts closest to the most advanced models.

“AI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX,” posted Trump.

Amodei, the Anthropic CEO, published a 3,800-word essay on Saturday that called for slower development of AI. Microsoft on Monday published its own code of conduct to ensure that humans control AI. The actions come after a series of warnings by AI experts about the technologies’ capabilities and the July 2026 cyberattack by OpenAI models on the AI company Hugging Face.

Amodei cited “AI’s growing ability to build the next generation of AI” and the cyberattack by the swarm of OpenAI agents as reasons to slow the pace of development.

“Given the accelerating rate of AI capability development, it’s my worry that in 6–12 months such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet,” Amodei wrote, adding that the damages could be in the hundreds of billions of dollars or more “without the necessary guardrails.”

Altman of OpenAI seconded that perspective in a weekend post on social media.

“Pacing will be well worth this cost; no amount of American competitive pressure should justify recklessness, or let capabilities get ahead of alignment and monitoring,” Altman said. “Where we will need the help of our government is for international coordination.”

The president has opposed such efforts to constrain AI and claims that doing so could cause China to eclipse America on AI.

“There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China,” Trump said.

The president has long resisted efforts for greater government oversight of AI, embracing his philosophy going back to 2016 of “I alone can fix it.” He returned to the White House last year by revoking a Biden administration executive order on AI oversight and only providing a fuller order of his own more than 16 months later this past June.

The prospect of slower AI buildout led stocks to slip in Monday morning trading, as demand for advanced computer chips and construction materials for data centres could fall. But Trump’s frustration comes as AI has also emerged as a political liability ahead of November’s midterm elections, with many voters opposing the construction of additional data centres and expressing worries that AI could lead to job losses and undermine the education of children.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters on Monday that he expects Trump will have the AI companies potentially meet at the White House this week or next week, saying that the sit-down has yet to be scheduled.

“There will be a deliberate discussion about the responsibility of the companies to maintain safety, and what role, if any, the government has to play in that,” said Johnson, adding that legislatures can tend to respond problematically with “red tape and hyper regulation” and that the loss of competitive edge on AI would be a national security concern.

Rahm Emanuel, the former Chicago mayor, Democratic congressman and White House chief of staff, said on Saturday that the Anthropic CEO’s essay was “an admission that we’re driving down a dark, winding road on wet pavement with the headlights off. And where’s President Trump? Looks like he nodded off again. It’s time to turn the lights on, put both hands on the wheel, and regain control before it’s too late.”

But the administration has repeatedly sought to minimize the risks being highlighted by AI companies.

Trump in a separate Monday social media post said that the concerns about AI are only because “the United States is leading, by a lot, every other country. Don’t kill the Golden Goose!” The AI buildout has accounted for a large share of the economic growth during Trump’s second term and the administration has bet that the technology will fuel additional productivity gains.

Vice President JD Vance told reporters Monday morning about AI, “I don’t think Americans should be scared of anything.”

Vance, speaking as he prepared to fly to Kansas for a midterm election campaign event, said that the Trump administration is concerned about AI but wants to make sure it is regulating the technology smartly, warning that the U.S. is in an AI arms race against China.

“Personally, I feel a little bit weird about the fact that you have so many frontier AI tech companies kind of coming to the government and begging the government to regulate them. It feels a little bit to me like a bit of a Trojan horse,” Vance said. “So, I think we just have to be careful about this.”

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The new party led by former B.C. Conservative legislator Peter Milobar has gained a seventh member.

Donegal Wilson, member of the legislature for Boundary-Similkameen, made the announcement on Monday after she said she spent the last week talking with residents of her riding in the southern Interior.

She said she did not plan to join the new party when she quit the Conservatives on Sept. 2 but found many areas of agreement with the other MLAs.

“When I left the BC Conservative caucus, I left because I could no longer support the leadership of Kerry-Lynne Findlay. I said then that I was leaving a caucus, not my principles, and that has not changed,” she said in a statement.

Wilson said both the governing NDP and B.C. Conservatives parties are largely focused on ideological issues, leaving many British Columbians politically homeless.

“As a fiscal conservative, I saw an opportunity to get in and help form the new party,” she said in an interview. “So, that is why I chose to go now.”

The as-yet unnamed party was founded by Milobar and Ian Paton and has since been joined by other legislators who quit the Conservatives; Bruce Banman, A’a:liya Warbus, Rosalyn Bird and Teresa Wat.

They are among nine MLAs who have defected from the provincial Conservative caucus in recent weeks.

The new group plans to sit as a caucus when the B.C. legislature resumes sitting next month.

Two remaining former Conservative MLAs, Scott McInnis and Brennan Day, say they will sit as Independents.

Wilson said former and current Conservative caucus members will have to make their own decisions for their own reasons in choosing a direction.

“But I do think we are building something exciting, and hopefully, they will want to come and be part of it.”

Wilson said she’s not interested in rebuilding an old, failed party.

“The new party has made significant strides in a matter of weeks and I am so thrilled to join this team and help build a credible alternative to the NDP that British Columbians can choose in the next election, whenever that may be.”

Those who have quit the B.C. Conservatives have cited issues of leadership and the strategies of party leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay, who was narrowly elected as the leader in May and faces a byelection to win a place in the legislature later this month.

Banman has said that Findlay is “unelectable” and levelled scathing criticism about the direction of the party under her leadership, calling out those around her for creating a “purity test” of whether legislators were “hard right enough.”

Findlay is scheduled to speak at the Union of British Columbia Municipalities convention on Thursday, while voters in Abbotsford-Mission will decide in a byelection on Sept. 26 whether she will have a seat in the legislature.

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