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You may think you hate Coldplay, but some people really hate Coldplay. A Seattle man was bumrushed earlier this week by a crazed Coldplay-hater after he started croaking his way through "Yellow" at a local karaoke bar. What started with the woman simply groaning her displeasure to anyone within earshot quickly turned violent, like Bill Bixby suddenly transforming into Lou Ferrigno:

Witnesses said her distaste for Coldplay quickly took a violent turn, and she leaped at the would-be crooner, shouting expletives and telling him that his singing "sucked," while expressing the same opinion of the song, according to a Seattle police report.

She pushed the man and punched him, all in an effort to stop his singing.

Other patrons went to the singer's aid and hauled the 21-year-old woman outside.

"It took three or four of us to hold her down," said Robert Willmette, one of the bartenders at Changes.

The woman, Willmette said, "went crazy" when she got outside, punching him twice in the face, and throwing blows at the others gathered around her.

After cops swarmed the scene, the woman (pegged as a "little hippie girl" by the never-condescending Seattle police) proceeded to take on the lot of them like she was Scarface, only to wind up hauled off to the pokey and charged with assault. Apparently no one could figure out what set her off:

Later Thursday morning, bar employees were shaking their heads over the woman's bizarre behavior.

According to the night bartender's notes, she had just one drink — a single shot of Jägermeister.

And that doesn't explain it? Whenever anyone I know drinks Jägermeister they turn into an avenging viking of death, too. If nothing else, let this be a lesson to anyone who dares to invoke the spirit of Chris Martin within Seattle city limits. Please karaoke responsibly.

Karaoke Singer Attacked After Starting Song [Seattle Post-Intelligencer with a tip of the hat to noted Coldplay fan Michaelangelo Matos for pointing it out]