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Article: Drum Bounces From Truck, Turns Up OK
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- June 8, 2007
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ST. ALBANS, Vt. - Call it drum luck. Kevin Lawyer had just finished a gig last month at Nectar's, a Burlington night spot, strapped his drum set into the back of his pickup truck and set off on his 25-mile trip home up Interstate 89 to St. Albans.
When he got there, his 16-inch floor tom was gone from its case.
He surmised that an unsecured case lid and a bump in the road were to blame.
He got back in his truck, drove back to Burlington, made a U-turn and repeated the trip to St. Albans, driving very slowly with his flashers on, scanning the roadsides for the escaped drum.
"I looked for three or four hours," he said. "I got pulled over for going too slow, but the cop let me go when I ...