Camper’s ‘repeated cries’ spark rescue mission — but he was singing songs by infamous rock band
He just wanted to be a big rock star.
Rescue teams in British Columbia responded to what they thought was a camper in distress, but the screams they heard in the mountainous forest turned out to be an outdoorsman belting out his favorite Nickelback songs.
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The man had been solo camping the Boulderfields near Central Okanagan, a popular destination for bikers and rock climbers in the province, when two hikers called 911 after hearing what they described as “repeated cries.”

Members of the Central Okanagan Search and Rescue crew happened to be out in the woods training nearby when the calls came in, and immediately started looking for the imperiled nature lover, deploying their drone team and enlisting two Royal Canadian Mounted Police to assist in the effort.
As the search teams neared the sound of the bleating echoing through the darkened woodlands, they heard “faint yelling … but couldn’t make out what was being said,” they described in a statement online.
“Was it ‘help’? Or worse, Nickelback?” the snarky post read.
Turns out the camper was “singing his heart out to the trees, blissfully unaware that the acoustics of the Boulderfields had turned his tent-side concert into an accidental distress signal,” the teams wrote.
“He wasn’t in trouble,” said COSAR Search Manager Duane Tresnich. “Unless you count his singing.”
COSAR noted that its rescue services are provided free of charge, adding, “and the money you save could be spent on singing lessons.”

Nickelback, the much-maligned Canadian alt-rock group that got its start in Alberta, is known not only for selling over 50 million albums worldwide, but also as something of a pop-culture punchline.
The band even made a documentary in 2023, “Hate to Love: Nickelback” about spending two decades as the “most hated band in the world,” despite their mega-success by any objective measure, with eight songs hitting Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart including “How You Remind Me” and “Photograph.”
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