......and I thought the American halfpipe dudes were wild....
From USA Today (Olive Barker):
No room at the inn for a nude dude
Call Francois Gagnon the frontman for a new Canadian pop group: the Barenaked Lads.
The Quebec City sportswriter was caught outside his hotel room in the buff last week near dawn ? and promptly got the boot. A reporter for Le Soleil, Gagnon stepped out to scoop up a USA TODAY, only to hear the door click behind him.
Shielding himself with the paper ? a broadsheet, thankfully ? a red-faced Gagnon crept down to the lobby of Salt Lake's Crystal Inn, where management, thinking he'd been partying a bit too wildly (Gagnon says he was not), gave him the slip instead of the key. Now he's laying his head at the Baymont Inns & Suites ? for $100 more a night.
Gagnon's newfound celebrity aside, "It's not that funny when you're kicked out," says his editor, Maurice Dumas. He insists that, regardless, his team's impression of Utahans ? or, for that matter, Americans ? hasn't changed.
From USA Today (Olive Barker):
No room at the inn for a nude dude
Call Francois Gagnon the frontman for a new Canadian pop group: the Barenaked Lads.
The Quebec City sportswriter was caught outside his hotel room in the buff last week near dawn ? and promptly got the boot. A reporter for Le Soleil, Gagnon stepped out to scoop up a USA TODAY, only to hear the door click behind him.
Shielding himself with the paper ? a broadsheet, thankfully ? a red-faced Gagnon crept down to the lobby of Salt Lake's Crystal Inn, where management, thinking he'd been partying a bit too wildly (Gagnon says he was not), gave him the slip instead of the key. Now he's laying his head at the Baymont Inns & Suites ? for $100 more a night.
Gagnon's newfound celebrity aside, "It's not that funny when you're kicked out," says his editor, Maurice Dumas. He insists that, regardless, his team's impression of Utahans ? or, for that matter, Americans ? hasn't changed.
