Have Mercy’s Van Broken Into, Asking For Donations To Help Replace Stolen Gear

July 26th, 2014

Kriston McConnell

A band’s equipment is their livelihood. So when their gear is stolen from them while out on the road it’s basically a worst-case scenario situation. Unfortunately that is exactly what happened to Have Mercy while they were stopped in New York to crash at a friend’s house. They reported waking up this morning to the lock on their trailer broken as well as the door to their van. Thousands of dollars worth of equipment was taken, which essentially leaves them with no leg to stand on for the remainder of their tour. They have asked if any fans would be willing to donate some money to their PayPal so they can begin the recovery process. Their PayPal email address is HaveMercyOfficial@gmail.com.

You can read what the band had to say about the situation below the break, as well as check out a couple of pictures they posted.

It breaks our hearts to hear about bands being robbed while they are out on tour. If you know anything please let the band and/or the local police know right away. Let’s hope they can recover some of their gear like Driver Friendly did.

Last night we arrived in Buffalo, NY to sleep at a friends house before our show in Toronto tonight. We got here around 1:30AM and woke up around 10:30AM and found our van door locks punched out and the trailer lock cut. They took 3 pedal boards with over $2000 in pedals in them, a Fender Starcaster, a Fender P-Bass, a Fender Deluxe Tele, a custom Moniker bass, a chinese Gibson Les Paul, an SJC 12″ Rack Tom, and a P900 Iron Cobra pedal. They also took Andrew’s customer built Telecaster and my (Swindle’s) first guitar ever, an acoustic that’s been with us on every tour. This is a huge loss for us and with everything great thing that’s happening for us this puts us a huge standstill. We’re accepting donations through our PayPal for anyone who wants to help out. We don’t want to ask for donations but this is everything we’ve worked hard for and everything that makes this band possible gone. Thank you guys.

Our PayPal is HaveMercyOfficial@gmail.com

-Have Mercy