Posted on 01/15/2014 5:09:04 AM PST by Anton.Rutter
Edited on 01/15/2014 6:21:09 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
The elderly man accused of shooting a movie theater patron in Florida after an argument over text messaging told police that he fired because he "was in fear of being attacked."
Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said at a news conference today that the victim, Chad Oulson, 43, was texting his young daughter's babysitter when an argument erupted with Reeves over texting during previews before the movie "Lone Survivor."
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The three self-absorbed social media addicts did not stand up, turn around and throw their drinks on me. How does that prove your point?
Cops who worked with him have been interviewed on the radio here in Tampa. Of course they all say he is a great guy and he must have been justified.
Shocking isn’t it.
It’s a 16 screen multiplex. It’s doubtful they rearrange their cameras based on attendance.
The lobby itself is generally not a risk area. The tills are, from both robbery and employee theft. They would probably also monitor any gaming area and the bathroom entrances for vandalsim, fighting and drug dealing.
“However many people don’t expect someone to start shooting in a minor tiff.”
I have given up trying to read minds. I don’t know WHO may be on the edge. I try to reduce my exposure as much as possible because I don’t want to find out.
I'm not unsympathetic to your plight. I once went to see Itzak Perlman, one of the world's very greatest violinists, in a box seat, and sat next to a male couple, where the guy next to me appeared in my experience to be in the advanced stages of AIDS, and was snuffling and hocking up snot every 60 seconds or so. After about 40 minutes of shooting him dirty looks wasn't working, and with only a few more minutes and the most exquisite parts of the concert ahead, I asked him to please stop making noise. His companion said, "But he's sick!" and I said, "Then take him home." Unlike your situation, they left; and I enjoyed what was left of the concert. So I do understand your annoyance. And it's also worth noting that one of my life's best friends who worked with me for decades died of AIDS and I supported him. But I still just don't think a disrupted performance is worth killing over.
*Exactly. This busy body guffer got his panties in a wad about someone pressing some buttons on a phone?
I suspect the retired cop was outraged that a mere peon didn’t “respect my authority”.*
The same exact things were said about George Zimmerman by the left. Way to go!
Reeves didn't struggle with the arresting deputy. It was an off-duty deputy from another county (Sumter Co.) who was seated near Reeves in the theater. He gained possession of the weapon and detained Reeves until local LEO arrived.
*I COULD have engaged him to make a point but I decided to just move. THAT attitude needs to prevail more.*
You mean we should all retreat and surrender to interlopers? Okay. As an aside, do you speak fluent Spanish?
I believe I've met you at one of the DC Chapter dinners after maybe GOE. If that was you, you seem like a nice person. I really doubt that even throwing their drinks on you would have made you kill them, or try to use it as a defense in court.
I understand being reminded of a past outrage in a theater, and how annoying the media generation has become. I sat through a recent concert in a front row seat with the person next to me viewing the entire concert on the iPad in his lap instead of what was in front of his eyes, had he raised them to the stage. But I don't understand using that annoyance it as a rationale for killing someone.
If you are carrying a gun sometimes you just need to STFU.
If he wanted to fist fight fine, but if you are armed you need to keep calm and walk away.
“So why bring it up when a young father is dead?”
I don’t believe I did bring it up.
I think this story will fall off the radar shortly. Nothing for Al and Jesse (or Obama, for that matter) to get worked up over.
” I might add that the amount of hatred for
cops shown here is disturbing.”
Things like the cops getting away with the innocent people shot during the Dorner hunt, and cops not caring about it, might have something to do with it.
You don’t have to look hard to find stories of cops hurting innocent and minimal offenders. You reap what you sow.
And because the part on your hair looks like it's on the other side of your head when you look in a mirror, doesn't mean it's on the other side of your head. Each situation has its own peculiarities.
Well, his friends all seem to like him.
That's some hair splitter you've got going on there. So let me rephrase, "Why pile on about texting when a young father is dead?"
Texting on my phone makes no noise at all. It cannot really bother anyone.
He wasn’t talking on the phone and it was during the previews anyway.
If the guy wasn’t a former cop it would have been a slam dunk. This is why I don’t just shoot everyone who irritates me.
Was it buttered popcorn?
First I am not going to give a stranger my phone. Second with a child being watched by a babysitter I am damn sure not giving my phone up.
It would be interesting to know this. For now, I'm going with "big sigh of relief that he didn't get to come home."
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