Man shot dead over texting dispute in Florida theater

reuters ^ | Mon Jan 13, | Barbara Liston

[RetiredTexasVet]

Significantly more severe for texting in the movie theater than the severe penalty normally assessed for early withdrawal.

[Afterguard]

this is one of the reasons i never go to movies an more.

[JoeProBono]

Curtis

[left that other site]

My first and subsequent CCW courses were mostly about protection from the police...”have both thumbs on the wheel at thew 2 & 10 position with CCW, Drivers License, Registration and proof of insurance under left thumb, radio off, eyes straight ahead, and saying, “Officer, I am armed” without even my eyeballs moving, what to say in the aftermath of a self defense shooting, etc etc etc.”

But a retired police captain can kill someone for texting during a movie.

[over3Owithabrain]

Ironically, Chad’s last text was “brb”

[Nifster]

The killer is 71 and a retired cop

[Nifster]

I think you probably meant rude… and yeah textures are annoying as all get out. The shooter went to get his gun in order to kill this man. I hope he gets what is coming to him

[Nifster]

whew… I was trying to figure out the link and was missing severely ;)

[Repeat Offender]

Well, hopefully the retired cop got home safe.

[USNBandit]

I was at a conference a few years ago and a bunch of guys decided to go see "300." Not the usual genre for me, but it was more of a social thing.

At the end of the movie one of the guys in my group stands up as the lights come up and sees a guy in the row behind us, with his kids. He immediately lays into the guy telling him he shouldn't be taking his kids to a violent movie like that. Now this dad looked like he had just gotten out of the penitentiary, tatted up, shaved head, plaid shirt over a white t-shirt. I did the smart thing and bolted.

So "Dr. Spock" finds the rest of the group outside the theater and lays into me for abandoning him. I told him if he was planning on giving parenting advice to the local Mexican Mafia members to warn me so I could go see another movie.

[MrEdd]

That is Elizabeth Short, known as “Black Dahlia” after her murder.