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20 people shot at Batman midnight screening.

Started by katmai, July 20, 2012, 04:26:37 AM

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Martinus

Quote from: garbon on July 24, 2012, 08:47:32 AM
Quote from: Martinus on July 24, 2012, 01:33:36 AM
Btw, has anyone else said already that anyone who brings a 3 month old baby to a fucking cinema deserves to be shot?

No, I mentioned that the 6 year old shouldn't have been in a theater (and then the 3 month old was pointed out to me) but I'd never suggest that evidence of poor parenting means the parents should be shot.

I disagree. If more people were being shot, we would have less problems.

Caliga

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on July 24, 2012, 08:45:41 AM
Isn't the solution to that problem not to go out?
That would be my solution, yes.  But I also have a job and so can't be at midnight screenings on a Friday morning, so maybe I'm not the best person to be trying to defend these guys. :)
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Martinus

Quote from: merithyn on July 24, 2012, 09:48:23 AM
Quote from: derspiess on July 24, 2012, 09:39:37 AM
Some newborns are quiet.  Some are quiet only when you don't need them to be.  We were pretty lucky with both of ours in most cases, but there were times when it became an issue and we had dinners that were cut short, had to miss part of whatever it was we were attending, etc.

I would assume the parents had a decent idea of what their infant was like.

In that particular instance, bullet proof?

Caliga

Quote from: Martinus on July 24, 2012, 11:49:49 AM
I disagree. If more people were being shot, we would have less problems.
The Stalinism is strong in this one. :menace:
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garbon

Quote from: Caliga on July 24, 2012, 11:52:10 AM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on July 24, 2012, 08:45:41 AM
Isn't the solution to that problem not to go out?
That would be my solution, yes.  But I also have a job and so can't be at midnight screenings on a Friday morning, so maybe I'm not the best person to be trying to defend these guys. :)

I have a job and could attend a midnight screening...
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

garbon

Quote from: Caliga on July 24, 2012, 11:52:37 AM
Quote from: Martinus on July 24, 2012, 11:49:49 AM
I disagree. If more people were being shot, we would have less problems.
The Stalinism is strong in this one. :menace:

Which puts him down for an odd Grallon-like behavior. He'd be one of the first up against the wall.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Caliga

Quote from: garbon on July 24, 2012, 12:09:49 PM
I have a job and could attend a midnight screening...
Do you get up at 5:30 am every morning like me? :)
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katmai

Quote from: Caliga on July 24, 2012, 12:18:26 PM
Quote from: garbon on July 24, 2012, 12:09:49 PM
I have a job and could attend a midnight screening...
Do you get up at 5:30 am every morning like me? :)

No one in their right mind gets up at 5:30 am every morning.
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

sbr

Quote from: katmai on July 24, 2012, 12:23:02 PM
Quote from: Caliga on July 24, 2012, 12:18:26 PM
Quote from: garbon on July 24, 2012, 12:09:49 PM
I have a job and could attend a midnight screening...
Do you get up at 5:30 am every morning like me? :)

No one in their right mind gets up at 5:30 am every morning.

No kidding, the lazy bums.  I am out of the house by then on a normal day.

CountDeMoney

Quote from: Martinus on July 24, 2012, 11:49:49 AM
If more people were being shot, we would have less problems.

Unfortunately, a bullet hasn't found your cocksmoking ass yet.  Yet.

sbr

I feel like this should be the headline for an Onion article.

http://gma.yahoo.com/james-holmes-goofy-behavior-sign-psychosis-faking-expert-142209134--abc-news-topstories.html

QuoteJames Holmes' Goofy Behavior Sign of Psychosis or Faking It, Expert Says

Accused movie theater gunman James Holmes was not on drugs when he appeared dazed in court, but experts are looking for explanations for his odd behavior that included turning evidence bags on his hands into puppets after his arrest, sources told ABC News.

The loopy, seemingly unconcerned actions by the former Ph.D student accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 is seen by some as signs of psychosis -- or that he's faking it.

Sources tell ABC News that Holmes was not on drugs or medication at the time of the hearing, but Holmes has demonstrated a pattern of bizarre behavior since his arrest outside an Aurora, Colo., movie theater last Friday.

When Holmes was arrested he told police he was the fictitious Batman villain, The Joker. When police put evidence bags over his hands to preserve traces of gunpowder residue, Holmes pretended the bags were puppets, law enforcement sources told ABC News.

Holmes has acted unfazed by his arrest, police say. He has been uncooperative since he was taken into custody, giving investigators little information, and yet disclosing his apartment was booby trapped with dozens of explosives.

His behavior in court Monday was particularly strange. Unshaven, with a shock of died orange hair, Holmes alternated between staring wide-eyed to closing his eyes and appearing to nod off.

His lawyer even had to nudge him to rise when the judge entered the courtroom. He said nothing during the proceedings, in which he was held without bond.

Some observers wondered if Holmes was on drugs or being medicated. Sources told ABC News, he was not on drugs, leading to expert theories that he may have been in the grips of "psychotic episode," exhausted from stress or simply faking it.

"I think there are two possibilities going on here," Marissa Randazzo, former chief research psychologist for the U.S. Secret Service and an expert in mass shootings, told "Good Morning America" today.

"One is that he is in the middle of a psychotic episode which is quite possible. We see him distracted at multiple points, an almost sort of 'coming to' and trying to figure out where he is and process what's going on," she said.

"The other thing that we're seeing -- and we've seen some of this behavior in the past couple months -- might suggest mania. Meaning hyperactivity, hyper energy, been possibly up and not sleeping for days. What we might be seeing here is the post effects."

But Randazzo also said there was a third possibility. He might simply be faking it.

"It's possible," she said when asked if Holmes' behavior could be all an act. "It is possible. We'll leave that open," she said, adding that most people who lie about that sort of behavior are sociopaths and "What we've heard about his history does not suggest sociopath at all."

"Let's keep that in mind that he was studying neuroscience. He was studying exactly the type of brain issues that we're going to be talking about throughout this whole case," she said.

No shit Sherlock.

Caliga

My vote is for faking it.  He's a smart guy, but he's not as smart as he thinks he is.
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Barrister

What a non-article.  Nothing about his behaviour (other than the hand puppets) is remotely unusual for an accused person in court.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

derspiess

Quote from: Caliga on July 24, 2012, 01:00:09 PM
My vote is for faking it.  He's a smart guy, but he's not as smart as he thinks he is.

Obviously.  He seems to be fooling a lot of news reporters, though.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Caliga

Quote from: derspiess on July 24, 2012, 01:03:29 PM
Obviously.  He seems to be fooling a lot of news reporters, though.
Hardly a major achievement though. :D
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