Lil Nas X reportedly stopped by Norwegian police after e-scooter error

Pop prima Lil Nas X was among 4 Americans reportedly stopped by Norwegian constabulary for mistakenly riding e-scooters done a large Oslo tunnel.

Authorities concisely closed the six-lane Festning Tunnel aft the incident, but nary of the riders were detained.

The tourists seemingly got mislaid aft pursuing a GPS way into the passageway connected Monday evening.

"They apologised. We person escorted them out," constabulary said. They did not corroborate if Lil Nas X was among the party.

However, the rapper posted photographs of the incidental connected his Instagram story.

"About to spell to jailhouse successful Norway," helium captioned one, taken wrong the passageway itself.

In a aboriginal picture, helium posed with 2 constabulary officers, joking that he'd been fto disconnected due to the fact that they were fans.

The tunnel's operations manager, Vidar Pedersen, aboriginal gave his relationship of the incidental to Norway's Dagbladet newspaper.

He said constabulary were called soon aft the scooters were spotted entering the tunnel, and approached the riders aft checking CCTV footage.

"At 1 point, they besides crossed the road, past realised it wasn't specified a bully idea," Pedersen said.

"We past sent 2 constabulary patrols, guided them retired and onto the quay astatine the waterfront."

Lil Nas X, whose existent sanction is Montero Lamar Hill, is successful Norway to execute astatine Wednesday's Slottsffell festival.

He precocious appeared astatine Glastonbury, taking 2nd billing connected the Pyramid Stage to Elton John.

The rapper, who became an overnight sensation with the opus Old Town Road successful 2019, appeared astatine Elton's request, aft the prima called him "a hurricane of caller air".

He roseate to the juncture with a visually-stunning, sexually-charged acceptable that incorporated dozens of stone and samples, from Michael Jackson's Bad to Nirvana's Something In The Way, alongside his ain hits, including That's What I Want, Industry Baby and Montero (Call Me By Your Name).

Alongside aggregate costume changes, the prima was surrounded by dozens of dancers, arsenic good arsenic a elephantine metallic snake and a immense furry horse... but nary e-scooters.

The 24-year-old is not the archetypal tourer to get stuck successful 1 of Norway's analyzable and engaged passageway system.

In 2019, a antheral who said helium followed a way fixed by Google Maps entered the astir 10-mile agelong Opera Tunnel complex. He was not charged oregon detained.