Man killed in movie theater for texting his daughter

When I was a kid, growing up in the 80s, America seemed like the coolest place in the world - seeing loads of films like ET, Back to the Future, Flight of the Navigator etc, I really wanted to go, or even be American. It looked so much better than Thatcher's 80's Britain with its miserable miner shit, fucking Adrian Mole and Findus Crispy Pancakes for tea.

Can't remember where I was going with this really, but it looks different to me now, like you've lost your way a bit. Or maybe nothing's changed? Fuck it - I'd rather visit Belgium now anyway.

I'm with DorkingtonPugsly.

That movie God Bless America that came out nearly two years ago comes to mind - that middle-aged guy and his high school girl sidekick who go around shooting people just for being knobs. I remember that scene where the obnoxious teenagers throw popcorn at them from behind, and then they turn around and shoot them in retaliation. This incident reminds me of that movie.

  On 1/15/2014 at 8:05 AM, westhead said:

When I was a kid, growing up in the 80s, America seemed like the coolest place in the world

Hmm...memories from the '80s...I was too young to remember most of it, when I was living in Cali until 1989. This subject could almost warrant a new thread of its own.

  On 1/15/2014 at 1:27 AM, LimpyLoo said:

Although, Shia LeBouf did point out

that if parking tickets were punishable by the death penalty

there'd be less parking violations

as well as less DRIVERS

so

just something to chew on

See. This is why I've become a fan of knucklehead lebuff over the past days. He's like to opposite of Russell Brand. No moralistic wag of the finger, but just straight out sarcasm for people to completely misinterpret.

Also, people against guns should be shot. /sarcasm/sarcasm/sarcasm

LOL

Yeah, that's a heart problem, alright. And a mind problem. ;D

  On 1/14/2014 at 9:55 PM, Joyrex said:

 

  On 1/14/2014 at 9:55 PM, Nebraska said:

 

  On 1/14/2014 at 7:29 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

the most embarrassing/cringe-worthy moments I have in movie theatres these days involve people chuckling and/or being glued to the screen during the PRe-trailer commercials. IT's fucking horrendous that anybody pays attention to those.

 

i used to work at a movie theater. there were people that came in only to watch the trailers and would leave when the feature started

 

Whaaaa...

 

When I saw Upstream Colour some fat bloke came in, sat at the back of the cinema eating his popcorn as loudly as possible then once he'd finished just walked out, he was probably in there for 10 minutes.

One time at the cinema I ate a pistol, so then some dude behind me started cooking me dinner. ...We were both wrong.

  On 1/15/2014 at 8:05 AM, westhead said:

When I was a kid, growing up in the 80s, America seemed like the coolest place in the world - seeing loads of films like ET, Back to the Future, Flight of the Navigator etc, I really wanted to go, or even be American. It looked so much better than Thatcher's 80's Britain with its miserable miner shit, fucking Adrian Mole and Findus Crispy Pancakes for tea.

 

These three films, along with The Goonies, The Karate Kid and Big give me such a heavy warm nostalgic feeling for 80s America even though I never even visited the country until the 90s.

It's quite an odd thing.

Obv this would have been much safer, had all the other visitors been carrying guns as well. They could have shot simultaneously in the direction of the bullet flying towards the texter and thus stop the bullet in mid-air. But Obama won't listen.

  On 1/15/2014 at 6:36 AM, usagi said:

Day Today type shit here.

"Meet the theater-goers who say they must pack a piece... to keep the peace."

  On 1/15/2014 at 6:07 AM, feltcher said:

 

  On 1/15/2014 at 4:06 AM, Goiter Sanchez said:

The Everglades are fucking beautiful though.

+1

 

Florida's natural beauty is quite wonderful: for such a populated state it has far less wide open land space (like Texas, California, Pacific NW mountains) but it's far more tropical and warm than the NE. It's basically cities or marshland or sinkholes in suburbs.

  On 1/15/2014 at 12:12 PM, Roksen Creek said:

 

  On 1/15/2014 at 8:05 AM, westhead said:

When I was a kid, growing up in the 80s, America seemed like the coolest place in the world - seeing loads of films like ET, Back to the Future, Flight of the Navigator etc, I really wanted to go, or even be American. It looked so much better than Thatcher's 80's Britain with its miserable miner shit, fucking Adrian Mole and Findus Crispy Pancakes for tea.

 

 

These three films, along with The Goonies, The Karate Kid and Big give me such a heavy warm nostalgic feeling for 80s America even though I never even visited the country until the 90s.

 

It's quite an odd thing.

 

I am a very nostalgic person and enjoy vintage aesthetics greatly and I've realized now that so much of that is only maintained within media: old films, music, pictures, books, tv. I love 80s and 90s South Cali for example, and all the aesthetics that came with it. That's all gone now. Nothing gold stays. You'll have better luck rehashing 80s and 90s bright neon radical glory listening to Mitch Murder than actually visiting Universal Studios in Florida.

I forget the exact statistic, but something like 80-90% of all buildings in America are less than 10-15 years old. We tear down, build, tear down. That's why chillwave and vaporwave are so appealing beyond novelty, they're exploring what is any many ways thrown away culture...that's why I find nostalgia so wonderful yet terrible. Especially with the internet it's easy to actually forget true memories and distort them with a hand-picked version of the past.

Oddly enough, I'm the same way with 80s British culture too, and a lot of American kids grew up loving Harry Potter. Kids in sunny and modern America find old, dreary England appealing I suppose.

  On 1/15/2014 at 3:45 AM, auxien said:

Um, I think everyone here is forgetting to ask the important question: were they both white guys?

 

But seriously, Florida is nuts. I'm from Louisiana, and I used to live in Texas; Floridians are nuts. Evidence: https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan

They are. If they hadn't been...then this would of been the big media story of 2014...maybe (it all depends on the news cycle) Other states have crazy people too, it's just Florida is such a perfect storm of crazy people...it attracts to odd and insane. Think of all the stereotypes of each state and region and how defined they are...Florida is undefinable: it's like a gun wielding, vaguely latino yet vaguely redneck drug dealer millionaire listening to jimmy buffet and riding an alligator on a surfboard on a space shuttle...shirtless.

I've mentioned this before: my dad was in the USAF and the type of C-130 he flew during the last part of his career was stationed only at 4 bases: Okinawa, England, New Mexico, and Florida, specifically here. He managed to get assigned to all of them except Florida. Thanks dad!

  On 1/14/2014 at 10:44 PM, apriorion said:

 

  On 1/14/2014 at 8:41 PM, ambermonk said:

 

  On 1/14/2014 at 8:30 PM, Ifeelspace said:

Yeah,I appreciate not everyone in the US is a psychotic muthafunker, but so many people get shot and killed and the arguments seems to be for more guns whenever something like this happens.

 

'Let's go watch a movie hun'

 

'do you have everything?'

 

'one sec, i'll just go grab my Beretta and we're good to go'

 

Fucked up

I owned a .22 calibre rifle myself until a month ago. Oddly enough I actually feel more secure being gun-free now. I have the same sentiments tho, being tired of trigger-happy nutters packing handguns in public. I mean, what good could possibly come from that? Do they think they're being heroes by doing so..?

 

The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to have a good guy with a gun. That's what some 'Murican said.

 

I'm glad I got the hell out of Florida.

 

This is exactly what bothers me, in fact that what disturbed me about the Trayvon shooting. I had a pretty calm but tense discussion with my parents, and I told them I could never, EVER imagine going out to confront someone behind or around my neighborhood block. Especially with a fucking gun! They responded "why not?" which confounded me. The rational thing to do is call the cops and wait in your home, armed if applicable. Hell, even if the neighborhood was robbed often as was Zimmerman's, that doesn't mean you can seek out a suspect wrongly and take justice in your own hands. It's not worth a person's life. They were sincerely upset that Trayvon was killed, but nonetheless redirected blame toward him. (btw I think Zimmerman wasn't racist, but a delusional vigilante - which is why his legal gun ownership is scary) I fear in the future that I'll have to warn my kids about, say, riding a bike at night and how to, I dunno, avoid getting in a fight with some assertive/aggressive gun-wielding adult. And lastly, the who "stand your ground" law is bad legislation, period. It actually conflicts with laws in Florida that punish people for using a gun in self-defense.

Here's what people should do in self-defense, call the cops. If they're home, stay there. If they're in public, seek an escape and only fire (assuming you have a gun) if absolutely necessary. During the Ft. Hood shooting, that's actually what occurred. Even when cops arrived, one was shot and disarmed before the other tackled the suspect. So that stresses the delusion of armed "do good" citizens with guns. The only time guns for self-defense works is in homes, and then only as a last ditch effort. It's a solution in search of a problem, and the problem has to do with lax gun regulation and distorted gun culture.

The problem with guns in America is that the sense of responsibility and practicality in ownership has eroded. Literally if you manage to get a "gun rights" person to acknowledge concern about being shot by a deranged or angry person, they'll tell you should arm yourself. That's not the point, guns are tools. Even things like AR-15s can and should be legally used by citizens be used for things like feral hog hunting. I don't have one because I don't need one. If I move out to the country, I'll have plenty of reasons to have a rifle for protection from predators, put down livestock, hunt legally, etc. The idea of having a gun now is just, I dunno, nerve-racking...what if it's stolen, what if a drunken friend messes with it, where should i store it, etc.

Great post ^

  On 1/15/2014 at 4:40 PM, joshuatx said:

80-90% of all buildings in America are less than 10-15 years old.

 

Man, that's pretty depressing.

@ Joshuatx

  On 1/15/2014 at 5:18 PM, Roksen Creek said:

Great post ^

 

  On 1/15/2014 at 4:40 PM, joshuatx said:

80-90% of all buildings in America are less than 10-15 years old.

 

 

Man, that's pretty depressing.

josh do you have a source for this? It sounds plausible and if true it would be an interesting statistic to use in a talk i'm giving soon. thanks dude =]

I'd personally like to see Dorky's opinion on the matter.

  On 1/15/2014 at 5:18 PM, Roksen Creek said:

Great post ^

 

  On 1/15/2014 at 4:40 PM, joshuatx said:

80-90% of all buildings in America are less than 10-15 years old.

 

 

Man, that's pretty depressing.

I need to find the exact figure, but I read it in A_Walk_in_the_Woods by Bill Bryson. American cities that boomed post-war are going to be fascinating to watch in the next couple decades. The grow like tree rings, once booming shopping centers and tract homes often fall to abandonment in mere decades. I'm hopeful that urbanization, if done right, can prevent the growing problem of poor infrastructure and urban planning that plagues many cities. Some 90s-00s era developments are literally deserts of parking lots and small roads with no sidewalks, trees, common areas, etc. Detroit's far more dramatic because the architecture and neighborhoods affected are are much older (at least in context).

Also, many "historic" neighborhoods, houses from the 1920s and 1930s and likewise post-war homes, are very often razed and replaced with larger cookie-cutter McMansions or modern homes. A lot of my peers have childhood homes that are now gone. I've beautiful and adequate sized homes from 1940s razed for tacky McMansions as soon as they sold. The standards on designating homes as historic or regulating improvements is often haphazard from city to city. I'm all for growth and change if done right, but it can get iffy depending on the place in question.

  On 1/15/2014 at 6:31 PM, luke viia said:

 

  On 1/15/2014 at 5:18 PM, Roksen Creek said:

Great post ^

 

  On 1/15/2014 at 4:40 PM, joshuatx said:

80-90% of all buildings in America are less than 10-15 years old.

 

 

Man, that's pretty depressing.

 

josh do you have a source for this? It sounds plausible and if true it would be an interesting statistic to use in a talk i'm giving soon. thanks dude =]

 

I'll look it up when I get home and try to scan it for you. Blew me away when I read it, not so much shocked but it was way higher than I expected. Also it was from 1998.

It's funny, I already do that thing we're I'm like "I remember when this was farmland" or "this exit used to just be a whataburger and a gas station" and I'm only 27.

Back to shooting, this article highlights why I often avoid the news for days and weeks until actually digesting the facts and allegations. The media often runs with absolute falsehoods and rumors that people and "witnesses" and "sources" claim and rarely acknowledges fault when they are found to be wrong.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/14/us/florida-movie-theater-shooting-scene/

This is probably more relevant than anything at the moment:

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Reeves is a Jacksonville native who moved to Tampa as a child, Escobar told the court. He suffers from numerous ailments, including arthritis, bursitis, hypertension, high cholesterol and low oxygen levels in his blood.

Can you imagine if sporting events were as lacking in security? Sad to even think about that.

So he has a history of threatening texters, just an old bully who thinks he can do anything bc he's white and an ex-cop.

http://gawker.com/ex-cop-who-shot-texter-in-a-movie-theater-has-threatene-1501798833

man it's just so disturbing, it's almost like he didn't get his chance to kill a human being while on active duty and was just looking for any excuse he could to complete his goal in life before he died. Shouldn't this thread be merged with the cop kills unarmed civilian thread?

hopefully more people come forward to show that this guy has a history of being a psychotic asshole

This is probably most likely the inevitable build up of all his sexual frustrations as a child. He didn't get any fleshlights or mama's cum© to beat off his inner shaven horns. Like a fucking fungus named Devon, festering in his lower intestines. Watching teletubbies from dusk to dawn like a reptilian shit. He couldn't keep it together. American tragedy. That's what this is. If you think it's GUNS?? Well go get a new wrist bitches you're wrong. If you think it's RUDE FUCKS?? NOPE_! That's also bullshit. It's none of those things. It's Americas fault for not censoring the tinky winky fuck scene with lala and po. Fuckin po lost his virginity to a shithouse. fuck.

Conflict in the cinema pretty common i would imagine but very rarely does it get taken to extremes. Depends on the audience, i guess. I think afternoon screenings when the place is only about quarter full are the worst. I've seen junkies in the cinema and they are good because they're very docile, but one woke up near the end staggering around and didn't know where he was. Thankfully it was in the last 2 mins of the film. When the credits started scrolling down the place went dark so he fell over in the aisle and went back into his docile state, people stepping over him as they left. Saw some nutter leave Sweeney Todd in disgust when the singing started, jumped up infront of the screen and started dancing before leaving. I think the worst was watching The Departed and a pair of douche hipster fuckwad's in the row in front started chatting really loudly just after Martin Sheen has been thrown off the high rise. It was only a matter of time before someone said something to them. And it was a big skinhead guy a few seats along who leaned over and spoke for the whole cinema with his eloquent delivery ''Shut the fuck up you pair of cunts, trying to watch the fucking film here. Zip it or fuck off''. Not a peep after that.

  On 1/15/2014 at 8:50 PM, DorkingtonPugsly said:

This is probably most likely the inevitable build up of all his sexual frustrations as a child. He didn't get any fleshlights or mama's cum© to beat off his inner shaven horns. Like a fucking fungus named Devon, festering in his lower intestines. Watching teletubbies from dusk to dawn like a reptilian shit. He couldn't keep it together. American tragedy. That's what this is. If you think it's GUNS?? Well go get a new wrist bitches you're wrong. If you think it's RUDE FUCKS?? NOPE_! That's also bullshit. It's none of those things. It's Americas fault for not censoring the tinky winky fuck scene with lala and po. Fuckin po lost his virginity to a shithouse. fuck.

+3 EXP

CAUSTIC WIT ABILITY INCREASED TO LVL5!!!

I found Sam Harris' take on guns quite interesting. He seems to fall on both sides of the argument equally.

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-riddle-of-the-gun