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Koe Wetzel Was Nothing But Smiles When Kids Dressed Up As “February 28, 2016” Characters At His Meet & Greet
Everyone’s favorite, unofficial country music holiday… and a reason to dress up for a meet and greet?
One of the more infamous days of Koe Wetzel’s life will forever be remembered thanks to the song that he penned titled “February 28, 2016.” The track, which is now certified-gold, details the events of… you guessed it, February 28, 2016 – the day that Wetzel was arrested for public intoxication.
The hit song was included on Koe’s 2016 album Noise Complaint, and it seems like the hype around the day grows bigger and bigger with each passing year. Many country fans always joke (?) on the February 28 anniversary that they are going to get trashed, go to Taco Bell and try to get a public intoxication charge in honor of Koe Wetzel.
And now, thanks to a video that the country artist shared just a couple of days ago, there are some more details that fans can try to copy on the holiday. Koe Wetzel finally sat down ahead of the event’s 10 year anniversary and provided some more insight into what happened on February 28, 2016 and shared it with this fanbase:
“I was in Stephensville, Texas. I wasn’t going to school. I think I was working at the baseball fields. I don’t know what it was; I was working a sh***y job. [I] went to my buddy’s house one Friday night, and we drank all night long. I didn’t have a lot of money, but I had a bottle of White Wolf vodka.
My buddy, he’s not with us anymore, he passed away, but he told me after I got out of jail. He was like, ‘Yeah, you left, and then you came back, and then we drank for another two or three hours. Then you kept talking about Taco Bell and how you wanted some food. So we tried to stop you from leaving, but you just said f*** this and you left.’ Then I woke up in jail.
My truck was about five blocks from his house, out of gas. The hood was popped, and my front doors were swung open. I was laying face down in the middle of a soccer field. The cop said he thought I was dead whenever he walked up on me. But yeah, so I got arrested.
In a sense, I guess you could say that February 28, 2016, kind of helped me get to where I am today. Here we are, 10 years later, and it’s crazy that people are still jiving with the song. And i’s become this holiday in Texas, I guess, unbeknownst to me. Yeah, I don’t know if I’m ready for the 10-year anniversary.”
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What a wild, song-worthy story.
“February 28, 2016” provides a lot of characters as well, and some young fans decided to dress up and play out some of the song’s roles when they met Koe during a meet and greet. A family that goes by the “Rachal Fam” on social media went out of their way to dress up as all of the characters of the song when they met Wetzel a couple of years ago.
One kid was dressed up as a Taco Bell worker, one was dressed up as a police officer, and the other was dressed up as Wetzel himself. It sure looked like the country music singer appreciated the effort when they all got to meet and take a picture together:
@rachalfam Happy @Koe Wetzel day! It’s February 28 a special day for all koe fans #babykoe #koewetzel #february28 ♬ February 28, 2016 – Koe Wetzel
Hilarious.
I hope those kiddos celebrate Koe Wetzel accordingly (and responsibly)… maybe just with a Taco Bell run? Clearly the track continues to reach all demographics, and it’s crazy to think that we’ve already reached the decade anniversary of the wild event that inspired the hit song.
“February 28, 2016” by Koe Wetzel
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