Some call it slums, some call it nice

As a long-time Green Day fan, I'm happy to hear any good news about them: a new album, a new sideproject, and now their artwork saving a little girl's life. From the BBC:

It's not often that rock and roll saves your life, but Ruby Wilson should thank Green Day after their artwork kept her safe from a dangerous hand grenade.

Ruby, 12, from Halifax, was clearing leaves when she found the device, and recognised it from a picture on her Green Day t-shirt.

Hey, that's great! She must have pictured the blood dripping down from the grenade-holding hand on the "American Idiot" album cover, and not picked it up. Right? Right? Because, uh, that's the only way Green Day could be credited with saving her life. Right, BBC?

Here's the third graf:

Her dad saw her with the grenade, told her to put it down and called the army, who then blew it up.

What!? Credit her dad with the save here, not the band! The only influence Green Day apparently had was to make this little girl think, "Hey, that's like the blood-soaked thing on Green Day's album cover. Weee!" Holy credit where credit ain't due, Batman.

Posted by Jason Feifer at June 15, 2006 09:04 AM