Posted on 07/25/2012 9:56:27 PM PDT by Houmatt
One of the victims in the James Holmes mass murder spree has lawyered up and plans to file a lawsuit ... because he feels the theater dropped the ball in a very fatal way.
Torrence Brown, Jr. was in Century 16 Theater when Holmes let loose. One of Brown's best friends, A.J. Boik, was shot in the chest and died. Brown, who was not physically injured, claims to now suffer from extreme trauma.
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If it can be proven that cine-mark had policys that made people sheep, while THEY themselves weren’t sheepdogs, there could be a case.
The Catholic Church has been sucked dry, as have been manufacturers of various banned products like asbestos, let’s find us new suckers, fellow law school graduates!
However we are living in Bizarro World these days when it comes to courts , so anything is possible
I like your logic.
He faked receiving an urgent phone call, exited via the emergency door (propping it open) ostensibly to take the call without disturbing the movie, then ran to his car, suited up, retrieved his arsenal and reentered.
That's my theory, and I'm sticking to it until evidence proves the contrary.
As a theater distributor of film, the doors were never locked from the outside as far back as I can remember. That has always been considered a fire hazard. They open from the inside and close with a spring system and no re-entry.
Theaters long ago changed their emergency exit doors. Go to any theater today and you see the exit signs. They open with the basic bar handle and shut behind them.
This nutcase obviously put something in the way of the door shutting so he could come back in. It will be proven so. Or he had an accomplice, but I doubt it. As a kid, I remember other kids opening the emergency exits so others could sneak in.
My question is: Did those emergency exists not have some kind of alarm that are used in many other buildings? If not, they could be liable.
That would be the singular fact that costs this movie chain zillions of $$$. What theatre chain doesn't alarm the emergency exits? Never mind the liability risk in an event such as this...what about potential lost revenue in the form of sneak-ins?
Was it an “emergency” door or just an exit door?
The Theaters around here have exits to the Lobby and to the left and right of the Screen.
You are probably correct.
It was to the outside of the building.
Just an early report I’d heard, so you know how wrong they can be, but it was said the he knocked on the door and someone in the audience let him in. I hadn’t heard the part about him already being in the theater.
In the theaters I go to in Texas, they aren’t emergency exits. They’re just exits. One is free to leave the movie through them, and that is often the shorter path to one’s car. What’s to stop someone from letting their friends in free, I don’t know.
The first report I read about was he opened the exit door and propped it to stay open and then came back through it with his ‘stuff’. There really should be alarms on those exit doors as they are for emergency use anyway. And anyone opening it who know blaring alarms would go off.
There are no outside handles, so he either taped the latch / deadbolt or someone let him in from the inside of the Theater.
He just have well could have opened the door, thrown in a few Molotov Cocktails (Inglorious Bastards comes to mind) and he would have killed dozens without firing a shot or spending Thousands of Taxpayer(?) Dollars.
If he did that, I'm sure the Lawyers would be going after Big Oil for providing the gasoline.
I'm surprised the insurance co don't demand alarms on exit doors, how else do the theaters expect to protect their patrons? And who pays? I've never been in a theater that doesn't have the doors alarmed. I believe the fire marshall comes around to check on that, also, and the exit door are lit and working properly. And when renewing ins - they ask for a copy of the certificate from the fire marshall/dept.
It MOST certainly did! He couldn't come through the front door with that dress and gear!
Any theater I’ve been to is all enter through the front and leave through the front and do have exit doors in case of fire or some such emergency. Only open from inside but are alarmed, also!
Really? Who would stop him? The 16y/o cashier?
That's how it should work. (Why does TX get all the simple stuff right?)
The court should find for the defendants and require the plaintiff (or his miserable lawyer) to reimburse the defendants for all of the costs his groundless suit imposed upon them. In the case of Warner Brothers, worthless though they may be, that might be a significant sum! (Hate to help California, but that's the break.)
The 16 yo cashier opens the place and makes sure everything is in running order? I think not. There is a manager in the theater.
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