Punk Band Frontman Has Unsurprising Anger Issues To Work Out

On Tuesday, Against Me! singer Tom Gabel was apparently so irked when he saw someone had defaced an article about his band that was hanging in a coffee shop in his home state of Florida that he decided to start banging some poor sucker’s head into the counter:

Michael Hurley, 22, who was at the cafe with friends, said his friend Jared Smith, 22, asked Gabel why he tore down the article.

Gabel started yelling at Smith, who sat down to drink some water.

“Jared said, ‘This conversation is over.’ Tom said ‘I don’t think it is,'” said Cody Cook, 21, a barista at the cafe and a friend of Smith.

Gabel then knocked Smith’s cup out of his hand.

Smith told police Gabel grabbed the back of his head by his neck and forced his head into the wooden counter.

A man came into the cafe, put Gabel in a headlock and headbutted him, Cook said. That man left soon after.

While Gabel admitted to police he purposely knocked over the cup, he denied hitting Smith.

Now that’s not how a good anarchistic peace punk should act. It is, on the other hand, exactly how a major label rock start should act. You’re taking to this whole thing swimmingly, Tom. (So who was the guy who wandered in and put the wrestling moves on Gabel? Just some Tallahassee weirdo who walks around headbutting people before disappearing, like the Shadow?) Gabel was arrested and released yesterday morning on $500 bail, leaving in his Hummer to attend an organizational meeting at the leftist bookshop. OK I made everything after that comma up.

Against Me! Singer Arrested On Battery Charge [Tallahassee Democrat via Buzzgrinder]