Posted on 04/17/2010 9:34:55 AM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbclosangeles.com ...
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They won’t have to go that far.
The courts are full of ludicrous lawsuits.
And there’s always the ACLU.
There needs to be a law that no meat thermometers are allowed within 500 feet of movie theaters. That should take care of the problem.
ludicrous=ludacris
It is happening more and more often.
What is rare is if it gets reported in the news.
I’d like to see a picture of the victim.
“Prosecutors said Boullard has four previous felony convictions in Los Angeles County.....”
Whatever happened to “three strikes”?
Reminds me of when I was younger and lived in downtown Denver for a while after college. The city spent millions revitalizing 16th street with upscale shopping centers, restaurants and movie theaters in an area that was formerly home to pawn shops and porno stores. No sooner than it opened, it attracted the thugs looking for easy prey and goods to shoplift.
Shortly after it opened, some friends and I went to the brand-new theater to spend our money and take in a film. Unaccustomed to seeing movies in an "urban" setting, I was taken aback by the fact that people just wouldn't stop talking through the film. Cell phones ringing, whooping and hollering, just constant noise. Being wiser than the filmgoer in this article, I wasn't about to politely ask the noisy viewers to STFU. Instead, my friends and I left after 20 minutes into the film and demanded refunds. We told the manager exactly why. He gave us our money back. Needless to say, if I'm going to spend my hard-earned money seeing a movie these days, I'll choose a theater in the 'burbs.
I haven't been back in a while. It's a shame, really. All that money spent to turn a decaying part of town in to someplace beautiful and revenue-enhancing and the local denizens try their best to ruin it by scaring away all the people with money to spend.
Prisons are expensive and California is broke. It's "catch and release" for guys like Boullard. Hopefully, now that he's blinded somebody, he won't be at the top of the list for early-release programs.
Here’s another way to look at it, untouched feline: movie theaters are an arm of Hollywood and the MSM.
So some lawyer is able to make a silk purse out this sow’s ear of a claim and gets a fat judgement.
It goes into a constructive trust for the victim. The theater folds, Hollywood is crippled as one theater after another goes under ...
I see nothing wrong here, keeping in mind I haven’t been to a movie since Madonna switched from Vaseline to Poligrip.
“Stabbings like this one are rare.”
LOL! I shouldn’t laugh, but the puns are too numerous to not mention them.
Withal I hope the perp does some serious time, but seriously I must ask, who brings a meat thermometer to a movie show?
Going after "deep pockets" to punish for the actions of criminals is something no conservative should advocate, especially when we know damn well that if theaters were allowed to legally enact policies that would keep certain demographics off their premises, they'd do so in a heartbeat. The best they can do is to ban certain styles of clothing and even then, enforcement is placed in the hands of some minimum-wage earning usher.
And Hollywood is starting to come around. The film that cleaned house at the Oscars was the pro-American, pro-military, The Hurt Locker. The problem was that nobody went to see it. Everyone went to see Avatar instead.
I'm stealing that!
Some might say, poetic justice would be served if the instrument in the (alleged) attack were used to verify when the perp achieved room temperature...
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Acodring to another report, the alleged perpetrator left the theater and retunred with the weapon.
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-movie-theater-stabbing,0,6105625.story
Well, it’s just like you say, except those same people act the same way in school, at home, at work, on the street, etc. and the beauty part is they wonder why normal people aren’t exactly thrilled to be around them. So it’s frowned upon to disapprove of them, political correctness stymies people from speaking out about it, and any direct action is viewed as inexcusable racist violence.
Couple that with the same toxic, ignorant, feral “culture” metastasizing into the default one for this country-fat, loud, ignorant, lazy, sociopathic,helpless-and we’ve got a problem-one that a great many people have known about for quite some time.
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