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Moviegoer ‘Expected Shooting to Start at Any Moment’ As Patrons Fled Newport Beach Theater
ktla ^ | 12:53 PM, August 10, 2015, by | Anthony Kurzweil,

Posted on 08/10/2015 4:42:34 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Authorities received multiple 911 calls about a disturbance at the Edwards Big Newport 6 movie theater complex in the 300 block of Newport Center Drive (map) beginning about 10:51 p.m. Saturday, the Newport Beach Police Department stated in a news release.

The callers reported that at least two men had entered a theater with a loud, handheld machine.

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Another moviegoer said the man was screaming when he burst through the emergency exit door.

“All of a sudden someone comes in screaming from the emergency exit … he waves something in the air and cranks it and everyone thinks it’s a chainsaw,” Kyndall Aldama said.

Investigators later determined the machine was a leaf blower, and two or three men had arranged to open an emergency exit door at one of the screenings.

“The suspect yelled, shook the leaf blower, and revved the leaf blower’s engine to create a loud and disturbing noise,” according to the news release.

Moviegoers began rushing for the exits.

“Everyone was just basically running for their lives, screaming ‘bloody murder,’” Mara Rothbart said.

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


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To: grobdriver

Im not. Theres o sovereign immunity if you make an error, especially if you have an anti 2a DA in your county. Theyd high five cops who blew this idiot away but would throw the book at joe citizen for shooting first and assesing later. They dont care if we all go home safe at the end of the day, we cannot be forgiven the same mistakes they can make.


21 posted on 08/10/2015 5:24:38 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: freebilly

Don’t say the word “blower” too many times, as in “Candyman”, or Bill Clinton will show up.


22 posted on 08/10/2015 5:26:04 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: grobdriver
I’m half surprised a CHL holder didn’t take him down.

My first thought.

23 posted on 08/10/2015 5:27:06 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate. [URL=http://media.photobucket.com/user/currencyjunkie/me)
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To: kingcanuteus
"If people were allowed in California to carry concealed weed whackers, this never would have happened."

Only the Landscapers should have leaf blowers.

24 posted on 08/10/2015 5:28:42 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (NOTE TO RNC: I will not be voting for another Bush. Ever. I don't care what his last name is.)
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To: bgill

Yep, and keep a 1911 on the side table.


25 posted on 08/10/2015 5:33:25 PM PDT by Afterguard (Liberals will let you do anything you want, as long as it's mandatory.)
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To: FlyFisher

Orange County, where the Theater is located and where I live is considered a Republican Stronghold. Well, it was.

After Sheriff Carona was popped for doing something Illegal, I can’t recall what, they hired a Female who worked for the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department in some capacity. They made her the new O.C. Sheriff and that was that. She has been Reelected a couple of times.

As soon as she took over, she rescinded every CCL issued by her Predecessor and made it nearly impossible to get one now. Unless your Job is Armed Security or you sell Diamonds, you are SOOL.


26 posted on 08/10/2015 5:34:53 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses... RIP Roddy Piper.)
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To: BenLurkin

A leaf blower, eh? In Newport Beach, Ca.? Only people you find anymore in California with leaf blowers are Mexican/Hispanic gardeners. Sounds like somebody hit too many forty ouncers on a Saturday night.


27 posted on 08/10/2015 6:17:00 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Mastador1

28 posted on 08/10/2015 7:19:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: MeganC

Most are undocumented topiary specialists.


29 posted on 08/10/2015 7:48:43 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: Mastador1

“let my people blow”- Lil Jebby


30 posted on 08/10/2015 7:49:32 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s so weird to see this story today. Just yesterday, I was watching a re-broadcast of the old HBO special (or movie, I’m not sure) on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. It was made in 2003. At one point one of the guys did a bit about being in the airport and seeing a TSA display of items that you could no longer bring on an airplane, one of them (to his amusement) was a leaf blower.


31 posted on 08/10/2015 8:25:34 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Blower? Sounds like the current rezidentura of the Oval Orifice....


32 posted on 08/10/2015 8:32:35 PM PDT by freebilly
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To: grobdriver
I’m half surprised a CHL holder didn’t take him down.

Same here - if I was in that situation (especially if my wife was with me), it may have ended a bit differently. Probably posted against weapons and any CHL types that "broke the rules" opted to wait for it to devolve into a definite situation - situational awareness may have given some enough info to decode the situation.

33 posted on 08/11/2015 3:29:48 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: grobdriver

Good thing they didn’t do that while I was there.


34 posted on 08/11/2015 10:15:07 AM PDT by thorvaldr
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To: Kickass Conservative; Shadow44; Mastador1; All

The three guys and the girl -- are "persons of interest"

35 posted on 08/11/2015 6:45:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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