Operation Misery: Week 3, Day 3.5 - Trouble at the Border.

According to Rihanna's Twitter feed her 10 vehicle tour caravan has been stopped at the US/Canadian border where it is being subjected to a full search. This is obviously going on as I write but can involve taking every vehicle and piece of equipment to bits screw by screw. As a result it could takes days rather than hours and is likely to significantly jeopardise tonight's concert in Winnipeg, Canada.

It has not yet been confirmed whether it is US or Canadian border officials who have ordered the search. However as Live Nation were able to warn in advance that the Winnipeg concert would be delayed I suspect that they've conspired with the US to make sure this search took place. This has been done to promote discussion about whether any other nation on the tour schedule will be taking similar action. This is because central to the US' plan for Rihanna's tour is the idea that she would cause so much disruption during these early stages that everybody would be provoked into striking back against Rihanna in just this sort of way. Of course if those other nations instead choose to strike back against the US directly through things like Syria the US' plan is pretty much f*cked.

Anyway I'm sure more will follow on what is clearly a developing situation. Fortunately I'm now at the top of my Twitter timeline.

17:40 on 25/3/13.


Edited at around 19:50 on 25/3/13 to add;

The good news that Rihanna's actual tour bus was not stopped at the US/Canada border. Therefore Rihanna and her core group have now arrived safely in Winnipeg. The bad news is that it seems the rest of the tour caravan is still being held at customs. The doomsday scenario is that a significant quantity of drugs is found and all the vehicles are impounded as evidence. This would force Rihanna's tour team to build and pay for a completely new set or cancel the tour. On the up side cancelling the tour would probably help Rihanna's reputation and give her the opportunity to try and make a go of this relationship with Chris Brown free from distractions and excuses. However I should point out this is the absolute worst case scenerio and therefore extremely unlikely to happen.

I have heard from a deeply untrustworthy source that it is US authorities who are searching the caravan. However nothing has been confirmed. So allow me to speculate wildly when I say it could be the English speaking Canadian authorities who stopped the caravan. This would have been done to force Rihanna and her core group into some very tense downtime in English speaking Canada. Britain could then claim that they'd been able to study the relationships between that core group especially their views on Chris Brown. However to get let in on those secret results everybody would have to be really nice to the UK over the coming days.

In the meantime I tempted to see if the Navy can get the hashtag; #FreeRihannaStage trending worldwide. After all it's something to do.


Edited again at 20:10 on 25/3/13 to add; It's now been confirmed that Rihanna's caravan has arrived at the venue in Winnipeg and the stage is being set up. Still no word on who was responsible for the delay.

(Originally Posted on 25/3/13)