Another Movie Theater Attack

[Blu-Dog]

A request to turn off a cell phone winds up in a stabbing.

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktl...,6105625.story

This is in my own town. My wife takes her elderly mom to that theater all the time.

This wound up with three people injured fighting the attacker, one very seriously. He and the two lunatics with him got away.

The choice of weapon was curious: a meat thermometer. This was probably the work of a group that was visiting one of the prisons in this area, which is about two miles to the west of the theater.

Law enforcement at the prison reserves the right to search any vehicle coming into the prison parking lot, so the criminal associates of prisoners carry "shanks" that an be disguised or explained away in their cars. That's probably what this moron was doing, and of course, he couldn't just walk into a movie theater unarmed; that would be unthinkable.

My guess is this crew went to visit a buddy in lockdown, and decided to just make a day of it and go to the movies, too.

I quit going to theaters years ago, after a riot one night in trendy, upscale Westwood. My town of Lancaster is actually a very nice place overall, but going where people congregate and argue about noise is just a waste of time.

I'm done with it.