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Homeboy says

Hey, Mark - just when I think you couldn't POSSIBLY be any more of a jackass, you go and prove me wrong.

thanks. i always try to outdo myself.

I gots to know!

http://www.youtube.com/embed/ETN9eNOA6vw

What difference does it make now??
The guy's dead because of leftist popcorn popping techniques.
If the stoned lazy bastards had throughly popped the corn as directed, there would not have been any unpopped kernals that wound up pummeling the shootist, causing his violent reaction.

Vicente says

finehoe says

Can a 3-year-old read a text?

He was texting the DAYCARE where his 3-year old was kept.

Doesn't prove a thing.
Everyone has cute baby pictures...

Vicente says

Our texting thug:

He was probably amped on LDS gummy bears or maybe Angel Dust.

Vicente says

Our texting thug:

He was probably amped on LDS gummy bears or maybe Angel Dust.

Look at her arm!

You can't deny that arm!

Two more people who encountered Reeves in the theater in recent days.

The man she identified as Reeves was sitting in the same row and talked with the usher afterward and gesticulated at her and her group, she said. She said she was there with her husband, three of her children and a niece.

Jamira Dixon is sure the man was Reeves because, she said, she made it a point to remember his face in case she went to file a complaint about him with theater management.

CNN repeatedly tried Wednesday to get a comment about the Dixons' claims from Reeves' attorney Richard Escobar. He didn't respond to CNN's requests.

The Dixons spent part of Tuesday night giving their version of the events of the December 28 movie to authorities, they said. They were interviewed separately, each for an hour, they said. CNN was unable to confirm Wednesday night that those interviews took place.

In recounting the experience to reporters outside their home in Wesley Chapel, the Dixons said the man never used foul language toward them; he just angrily kept his eye on them from the end of the row.

"As the (day) went on he just glared and glared and was grumbling the whole (time)," Jamira Dixon said.

"I don't think he saw much of the movie," Michael Dixon said.

Another man's cell phone went off during the movie, Jamira Dixon said, and the man leaned over and snarled at the guy on the phone. "Can you please, please turn that off. It's really disturbing me," the man said, according to Dixon.

She said she heard about Monday's shooting through a Facebook post she noticed while driving that afternoon. Because the incident also involved someone texting at the same theater, she asked a friend to see if there was a picture of the suspect and send it.

When she saw it she said she had to pull the car over.

"It sent chills down my spine," she said. "I knew it was that person that I had an encounter with a few weeks prior."

Still sticking to my speculation that Reeves nominated himself Theater Crusader, and was steadily simmering into an explosion of Anti-Texting Righteousness. Deus Vult!

Your making a good case.
I would add that the guy is probably halfway senile.....
This could lead to ex-cops having to be annually tested for mental competency to allow them to carry guns anywhere...

thunderlips11 says

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/15/justice/florida-movie-theater-shooting/

Still sticking to my speculation that Reeves nominated himself Theater Crusader, and was steadily simmering into an explosion of Anti-Texting Righteousness. Deus Vult!

thunderlips11 says

She said she heard about Monday's shooting through a Facebook post she
noticed while driving that afternoon. Because the incident also involved someone
texting at the same theater, she asked a friend to see if there was a picture of
the suspect and send it.

When she saw it she said she had to pull the car over.

Wow, self-righteousness over cellphone shooter and self-incrimination regarding cellphone use while driving right in the same paragraph!

People feel strongly about issues that they read (or hear about) in the media. This is yet another example of such a case.

If a person is in the theater and is disturbed by another person, they can move to another seat, ask for their money back and/or attend another showing, or simply shut up and ignore whatever it is.

Certainly shooting that other person is not warranted unless he is threatened with bodily harm. Even if the victim threw popcorn (?) or made a comment the shooter didn't like, the reaction was well beyond what the reasonable person would do.

SoftShell says

However, nobody was shot for talking/texting on a cell phone.

Somebody was shot for throwing shit in the dark while screaming at an elderly ex-cop who probably acted reflexively.

Anyone - especially an ex-cop - who acts reflexively, pulls out a concealed weapon and shoots an alleged popcornetrator is a danger to society. This is not a reasonable reaction for this situation.

Thunderlips digging has shown that this was building up, a slow boil. The guy was obviously off his rocker.
annual testing for excops who carry, especially elderly ones, for mental competency should be a result from this altercation.
But we know that won't happen...

elliemae says

SoftShell says

However, nobody was shot for talking/texting on a cell phone.


Somebody was shot for throwing shit in the dark while screaming at an elderly ex-cop who probably acted reflexively.

Anyone - especially an ex-cop - who acts reflexively, pulls out a concealed weapon and shoots an alleged popcornetrator is a danger to society. This is not a reasonable reaction for this situation.

SoftShell says

Your making a good case.

I would add that the guy is probably halfway senile.....

Thanks 'shell.

Here is another possibility to add to the senility, made by Ceffer:
Ceffer says

His defense is "post anabolic steroid dementia" compounded by post traumatic stress disorder.

The old bird could be taking a wing stiffener.

"Senile Douche, crazed on Levitra and covered with testosterone patches, snuffs Wayward Texter".

Ah, the good ole days of the National Enquirer.

Lt. Frank Drebin, cleaning out his desk and leaving the force:

"Just think: Next time I shoot someone, I could be arrested."