arnisador
03-10-2010, 10:06 AM
Moviegoer is stabbed after complaining about cellphone user (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-meat-thermometer10-2010mar10,0,7045869.story)
A meat thermometer was plunged into the victim's neck during a screening of 'Shutter Island.' An L.A. County sheriff's spokesman called it a 'vicious and cowardly attack.' (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-meat-thermometer10-2010mar10,0,7045869.story)
A dispute at a Lancaster movie theater during a screening of "Shutter Island" ended with someone plunging a meat thermometer into the neck of the man who complained about someone sitting near him talking on a cellphone during the show.
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The theater was packed for a 9 p.m. Saturday screening of the Martin Scorsese film when the moviegoer complained about a woman near him using a cellphone.
The woman and two men with her left the theater. But sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said two men returned a few minutes later and stabbed the victim.
[...]
Two moviegoers who came to the victim's aid were also hurt during the fight, officials said.
One thing that my JKD-Kali instructor always emphasized was how often you'd think an altercation that was mostly verbal was over only to find they'd come back/wait outside for you with reinforcements/weapons. You have to be thinking self-defense all the time...though in a dark movie theater, trying to watch the show, it might be hard (especially if it's too full to move to a better-protected seat).
I could see this happening to me--it's a scary thought.
A meat thermometer was plunged into the victim's neck during a screening of 'Shutter Island.' An L.A. County sheriff's spokesman called it a 'vicious and cowardly attack.' (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-meat-thermometer10-2010mar10,0,7045869.story)
A dispute at a Lancaster movie theater during a screening of "Shutter Island" ended with someone plunging a meat thermometer into the neck of the man who complained about someone sitting near him talking on a cellphone during the show.
[...]
The theater was packed for a 9 p.m. Saturday screening of the Martin Scorsese film when the moviegoer complained about a woman near him using a cellphone.
The woman and two men with her left the theater. But sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said two men returned a few minutes later and stabbed the victim.
[...]
Two moviegoers who came to the victim's aid were also hurt during the fight, officials said.
One thing that my JKD-Kali instructor always emphasized was how often you'd think an altercation that was mostly verbal was over only to find they'd come back/wait outside for you with reinforcements/weapons. You have to be thinking self-defense all the time...though in a dark movie theater, trying to watch the show, it might be hard (especially if it's too full to move to a better-protected seat).
I could see this happening to me--it's a scary thought.