Travis singer Fran Healy has revealed that he punched carjacker within the face after he tried to tug him from the window of his automotive.
The Why Does It At all times Rain on me singer took to Twitter to talk about the ordeal and even joked that his fist got here off worse than the tried thief's face following the incident.
Sharing to his 47,000 followers, he recalled the second: "Virtually received carjacked contained in the parking facility of my studio. Man! That was shut.
"Big man tried to tug me out my automotive window. Managed to get away. Downtown LA is psychological." He then added: "Because the adrenaline dissipates, my proper hand is hurting like I punched a wall. I hooked the man actually arduous within the face a number of instances whereas he was all in my window. He didn’t flinch. Didn’t even register it. I used to be like 'Aww balls'."
Shocked followers rushed to make it possible for he was okay, with one writing: "Hope you are okay!" One other added: "Fran, how scary. Hope you are okay." A 3rd wrote: "Oh Fran I am sorry you went by that. I am glad you are protected, it will need to have been horrifying..."
Final 12 months, Fran was attacked by a sausage canine close to his residence within the Hollywood Hills. He went to assist the canine after it had been concerned in a three-car collision.
After leaping from his automotive to rescue the pup which "would have been toast", he was bitten on the hand. He needed to have surgical procedure on his hand after the weird incident left him unable to play his beloved guitar.
Fran joined Travis in 1991 and went on to get pleasure from enormous success with the band with tracks corresponding to Driftwood, Sing and Why Does it At all times Rain on Me? The hitmakers had been awarded greatest British group on the Brit Awards and had been named NME artist of the 12 months in 2000.
In a latest interview along with his band mate Dougie Payne, the pair stated they had been "pleased to be the invisible band". The duo defined that their music was extra necessary to them than their picture and being recognisable.
Talking of their third album 'The Invisible Band', which propelled them into the mainstream, they stated: “That’s why we referred to as the album that, the songs had been all the time extra necessary than the band.
"The truth that we're right here speaking to you is testomony to that, as a result of the songs are nonetheless right here and the songs shall be right here after we’re useless and gone,” they advised STV leisure present.
Fran joked: "Perhaps Travis shall be larger than The Beatles in 500 years?”
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