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Moviegoer Tells Woman to Stop Talking on Cell Phone, Gets Stabbed in Neck
NBC LA ^ | 3/10/10 | Scot Weber

Posted on 03/10/2010 10:31:56 PM PST by takbodan

A woman talking on a cell phone during a movie didn't take kindly to being "shushed" by another moviegoer. Or at least her boyfriend didn't.

In a drama that turned more lively than the one on screen -- "Shutter Island" -- the boyfriend allegedly attacked and stabbed the "shusher" in the neck with a meat thermometer. Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said the stabbing occured Saturday during a screening of the Martin Scorsese film.

The stabbing victim is expected to survive and is recovering at a hospital. Two others who tried to help the victim also were injured, according to Whitmore.

According to sheriff's officials, the suspects were described as black males. One man was wearing an orange hat with an orange jersey and the other man was dressed in a black hooded sweatshirt.

There was no word on why the man had a meat thermometer in a movie theater.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbclosangeles.com ...


TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: meatthermometer; moviegoer; stabbed
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Reason #300 why I do not go to movie theatres anymore.
1 posted on 03/10/2010 10:31:57 PM PST by takbodan
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To: takbodan

a.) Who takes a meat thermometer with them to the theater? I mean, really... who does that?

b.) Should make time of death really easy to compute, though.


2 posted on 03/10/2010 10:35:38 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: takbodan

Typical. You need to avoid theatres in borderline areas.


3 posted on 03/10/2010 10:35:59 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H. L. Menken.)
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To: Larry Lucido

Seinfeld moment ping!

George-”Now shut your mouths or I’ll shut em’ for you. And if you think I’m kidding just try me. Cause I would LOVE IT!”

I always thought that George would have gotten beaten up for that.

Geez, another reason to stay out of theatres in low places.


4 posted on 03/10/2010 10:41:24 PM PST by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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To: takbodan
According to sheriff's officials, the suspects were described as black males.

Were there more than one boyfriend? There's no mention of other suspect in action.

5 posted on 03/10/2010 10:42:01 PM PST by paudio (Are you better off today than in 2006, when the Democrats took over the Congress?)
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To: takbodan

6 posted on 03/10/2010 10:43:04 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Ramius

So how hot was he, and what IS the right temp for medium rare?


7 posted on 03/10/2010 10:44:15 PM PST by Justaham
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To: takbodan
According to sheriff's officials, the suspects were described as black males.


8 posted on 03/10/2010 10:47:33 PM PST by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: takbodan

Must have happened in East LA.


9 posted on 03/10/2010 10:47:38 PM PST by Justaham
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To: takbodan
According to sheriff's officials, the suspects were described as black males.

Call me a racist, I don't care, but I already figured as much just by reading the details of the crime.

10 posted on 03/10/2010 10:48:25 PM PST by Drew68
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To: B-Chan
LOL! I take it you've seen films in the 'hood as well?

Nothing but cell phones ringing, people talking on their phones, talking to each other, yelling at the screen, whoops, hollars and cat-calls, interspersed with, "Who dat man? Where he come from? What goin' on? Dis movie stoopid!"

Yep. Thank God for my home theater system.

11 posted on 03/10/2010 10:57:35 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Justaham

No. in Lancaster. Lancaster was the city where the mayor said “this is a Christian city” and later capitulated to the libs. Whenever I head there, it’s mostly middle-class blacks that I see in the malls.


12 posted on 03/10/2010 11:18:00 PM PST by max americana
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To: Drew68; B-Chan
That reflects my recent multiplex experience...unless I'm very careful to select theaters with only one or two screens.
A film with any complexity helps to eliminate some of those nitwits as well.
The number of people holding full conversations and/or texting in a haze of bluish-green light in the darkened theater is nothing short of fascinating.


13 posted on 03/10/2010 11:23:43 PM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: Blue Jays

Want to watch a movie in peace? Pick a subtitled foreign film. Nothing weeds out gangbangers, rednecks, and other unsavory types better than a subtitled film. “Mang, if I wanted to read, I’d’a gone to the lieberry!”


14 posted on 03/10/2010 11:38:19 PM PST by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: takbodan

In LA wearing orange? Hello Hoover


15 posted on 03/10/2010 11:43:35 PM PST by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (There once was a dream called, "Hippy Beat Down." The mere whisper of if caused cops to cry.")
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To: Drew68

I must be racist too, then. My first thought when I read the details was that they were Black.


16 posted on 03/10/2010 11:44:37 PM PST by SoldierDad (Proud Papa of two new Army Brats! Congrats to my Soldier son and his wife.)
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To: B-Chan

Excellent technique! I’ll keep that idea up my sleeve, too.


17 posted on 03/10/2010 11:45:31 PM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: Drew68

I don’t believe that black people are biologically inferior to any other kind of people. My Catholic faith does not allow racism.

That being said, anyone who denies that cultural differences exist between the majority of urban blacks and the majority of middle-class whites is being naïve, disingenuous, or dishonest. By and large, middle-class white people behave circumspectly in public, and do not shout at theater screens, hold conversations during movies, and the like. (Lower- and working-class white people often display the same behavioral pathologies as urban blacks.)

Obviously, there are exceptions to these cultural behavior patterns, and every individual deserves to be judged on the basis of his or her own actions. However, when dealing with groups of people, it is both ethical and prudent to assume that typical cultural behavior patterns will be encountered.


18 posted on 03/10/2010 11:45:48 PM PST by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: takbodan

Geeze, what was the last movie I saw in a theatre? I don’t remember.


19 posted on 03/10/2010 11:46:03 PM PST by SoldierDad (Proud Papa of two new Army Brats! Congrats to my Soldier son and his wife.)
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To: takbodan

You are correct, sir. I only go to the movies maybe once a year.


20 posted on 03/10/2010 11:50:49 PM PST by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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