Man Who Used Meat Thermometer in Movie Stabbing to Stand Trial

knbc ^ | 3:15 PM PDT, Fri, Apr 16, 2010

[Touch Not the Cat]

It started with a showing of "Shutter Island" and ended with a real life attempted murder charge.

A 39-year-old Lancaster man accused of stabbing another moviegoer with a meat thermometer during a screening of the horror film was ordered Friday to stand trial on attempted murder and other charges.

Lancaster Superior Court Judge Christopher Estes found sufficient evidence to require Landry Boullard to proceed to trial on one count each of attempted murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon.

Boullard is accused of stabbing the victim in the neck with a meat thermometer after the victim asked a female companion of the suspect to stop talking on her cell phone at the Cinemark 22 in Lancaster on Feb. 27. Two other moviegoers who intervened suffered minor injuries.

The victim, who was in a coma for several days after the attack, is now blind in his right eye and was hospitalized for 40 days, according to testimony presented during Boullard's preliminary hearing.

Prosecutors said Boullard has four previous felony convictions in Los Angeles County: for robbery in 1990, for drug sales in 1995, and twice -- in 2000 and 2007 -- for being a felon found in possession of a firearm.

[Touch Not the Cat]

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The alleged perpetrator according to news reports.

[gundog]

Well, there’s “stabbing” and there’s “just checking to see if he was done.”

[Drew68]

I'm sure this thread will generate many quips due to the meat thermometer angle but there's nothing at all funny about it at all

A man went to a movie theater to enjoy himself, asked a rude patron to observe the most minimal standard of decorum and is now seriously disabled.

[Krankor]

He’s done, Jim.

[Touch Not the Cat]

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The alleged perpetrator tried to kill a man — brutally — because the man asked this animal to be quiet during a movie.

[martin_fierro]

A 39-year-old Lancaster man accused of stabbing another moviegoer with a meat thermometer

That was cold.

Or was it?

[gundog]

Yeah, but it was a Scorsese film.

[shibumi]

Stabbings like this one are rare.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Another argument for Netflix or view-on-demand - the increasingly scummy quality of the general public.

[shibumi]

...but not well done.

[Touch Not the Cat]

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I should say — alleged animal.

[shibumi]

They’ve always been scummy.

They just get out more now.

[gundog]

Too true. Wouldn't want to sit next to perp or victim. For that matter, I've had trouble at other people's houses. An acquaintance and his wife rented Hamlet because it starred Mel Gibson. When the movie opened at a funeral, the wife asked "Who died?"

[tumblindice]

“judgment-proof”

[mowowie]

I’ve never thought to bring my meat thermometer to a movie theater before but then again i’m not psycho either.

[Ditter]

How about “an eye for an eye” plus a life sentance? He is a monster.

[Touch Not the Cat]

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Almost certainly.

In fact, watch for some greedy lawyer to sue the theater on the alleged perpetrator's behalf:

“It should have had better security and that way my client would not have been able to return to the theater and repeatedly stab the victim. It is the theater’s fault that my client is in prison.”

[jakerobins]

That’s just messed up.....I may be paranoid but I refuse to sit with people directly behind me in a movie theater...Maybe I have watched too many horror movies where people get killed but.........

[Touch Not the Cat]

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Just don’t ask anyone to not talk on their cell phone during the movie.

[tumblindice]

I suppose if someone dug up Melvin Belli, a case that ludicrous could be made by a zombie lawyer.