Sam Carter of The Architects, a British metalcore band, was recently performing at the Lowlands music festival in the Netherlands when he witnessed someone in the crowd sexually assault a woman by grabbing her breast while she was crowd-surfing. Carter decided to let the assailant in the crowd know what he'd seen in no uncertain terms during a pause between songs in the band's set. NPO 3FM, a Dutch radio station, posted what the singer said on Twitter and it quickly went viral.
"I saw a girl, a woman, crowdsurfing over here, and I'm not gonna fucking point the piece of shit out that did it, but I saw you fucking grab at her boob. I saw it," Carter said as the crowd cheered. "It is fucking disgusting and there is no fucking place for that shit ... It is not your fucking body. It is not your fucking body and you do not fucking grab at someone. Not at my fucking show."
"If you feel like doing that again, walk out there, and fuck off, and don't come back," he concluded. "Let's keep this going, let's keep this a fucking safe place for everybody, and let's have a fucking good time."
As BuzzFeed notes, his speech was met with much acclaim online — though also it's worth noting that the alleged groper was not identified or charged (though it's not clear if the woman crowd-surfing reported the incident herself). Carter stood by his response, retweeting NPO 3FM's video with a note that "there's no room for this at any show."
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