Pearl Jam Mugging Vid On YouTube

THIS is what YouTube members spend their time uploading?!?

By Fred Mills

Some folks just don't get no respect.

That's the situation with Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament, who you've probably heard was mugged on April 27 in the parking lot of Southern Tracks Studio in Atlanta, where the band was recording with producer Brendan O'Brien. According to news reports, the broad daylight attack happened when Ament and Mark Smith were at their car and three masked men came out of the woods holding knives. They got a reported $7300 in belongings (phone, laptop, more) and cash, plus Ament's passport - which probably won't seem of much use to the muggers (assuming you have a reasonably good instinct regarding the, uh, demographics of likely muggers in the Atlanta area).

Ament "suffered some lacerations" to the head in a scuffle, reports say.

So now, to add insult to injury, someone has uploaded the surveillance video footage from the parking lot cameras that recorded the assault. See below, but we should add that here's hoping that the crooks are caught. Oh, and that the folks who put the vid on YouTube are permanently barred from PJ concerts too - assholes. To be honest, this is the kind of thing that we usually steer clear of, but everybody and his cousin seems to be posting it to their own site, so it's kind of a moot point. (We'd rather keep you staring at BLURT, too.)