Posted on 01/14/2013 4:40:50 PM PST by doug from upland
SAN DIEGO January 13, 2013 (AP)
Moviegoers at a San Diego theater ducked for cover as police stormed in during a movie and shot and wounded an armed domestic violence suspect pretending to be a patron.
The lights came on suddenly during a Saturday matinee screening of "Les Miserables" at Reading Cinemas Carmel Mountain in northern San Diego and two officers who had been going theater-to-theater spotted their suspect among the approximately 15 moviegoers, most of whom quickly hit the floor and started inching toward exits, police and witnesses said.
The suspect, Tom Billodeaux of Escondido, 20, at first obeyed the officer who approached him and put his empty hands up, but then "lowered them into his lap ... raised a handgun, and turned it toward the officer," police said in a statement.
The officer, who has been with the department for about 18 months, shot Billodeaux in the chest and arm, police said.
No one else, including the domestic violence victim in the initial incident, was hurt, police Lt. Ernie Herbert said.
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Tom Bombadil! ... oh wait
Other than the shooting, how was the movie?
>> put his empty hands up, but then lowered them into his lap
Ah, universal sign language for “Officer, I’m about to commit suicide and I’d like you to help.”
>> how was the movie?
I dunno... how would YOU like to be watching it from your vantage point prone on a sticky, smelly theater floor?
Yuck. Talk about “les miserables”...
I’m beginning to think movie theaters have become war zones.
>> I’m beginning to think movie theaters have become war zones.
Yep, FReeping seems safer entertainment than moviegoing...
although Mrs. Tick *has* occasionally threatened domestic violence if I don’t get off the computer. :-)
Well, at least they didn’t shoot any dogs.
How many people have been shot while downloading a pay per view movie or homeschooling?
See kiddies, the police CAN protect you. /sarc
Get her her own computer for marital bliss-—LOL!
Let her do some freepin’ too.
Get her her own computer for marital bliss-—LOL!
Let her do some freepin’ too.
Get her her own computer for marital bliss-—LOL!
Let her do some freepin’ too.
Geeze—sorry about the extra posts—that’s happening to me a lot lately.....
Are you *done* lecturing me? Or did you want to add a couple more?
just kidding
Actually, Mrs. Tick *has* her own computer and FR nick. She just also has some silly old-fashioned ideas about how I should be spending my time... I think she got ‘em from her daddy and our pastor...
:-)
I, on the other hand, would have run with it for all it's worth!
This is obviously a sign that movies based on French novels lead to gun violence.
For example, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, also by Hugo, was made into a movie in 1939. Just before World War II. Coincidence?
The movie Dangerous Liaisons came out in 2003, *just* before Gulf War II!
Obviously, French novels, and movies based on French novels, cause mentally unstable people to want to commit mass homicide.
How about, say, “The Three Musketeers”, (and the sequels)”The Scarlett Pimpernel”, “The Man In The Iron Mask”? Can you think of some cases of gun violence going on in any of the versions of those? How about “Phantom Of The Opera?, “Les Dame Aux Camilles”? (Is the last one spelled right, I hope?) :-)
Now you’re just trying to confuse theory with facts.
While innocent children are dying at the hands of insane Franco-biblio-cinemaphiles. Won’t somebody think of the children?
Right now, some beret wearing pre-paranoid schizophrenic is watching Jules Verne movies and contemplating slaughtering an entire elementary school with an unlicensed assault baguette, his pockets bulging with high capacity escargot.
Apparently there weren't any blind movie patrons there.
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