Man shot dead for eating popcorn too loudly during Black Swan

[Liberal_in_LA]

Man shot dead for eating popcorn too loudly during Black Swan
A man was shot dead at a Latvian cinema after eating his popcorn too loudly during a screen of Black Swan, according to reports.

Police said they had arrested a 27-year-old man suspected of shooting a 42-year-old fellow audience member who later died of his wounds.

The conflict took place as the credits rolled during a screen of the Oscar-nominated film "Black Swan", according to police in the Baltic state.

Witnesses told the Latvian news agency Leta that it arose over how loudly the deceased man was eating his popcorn.

Gun-crime is relatively rare in Latvia, a European Union nation of 2.2 million.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8337522/Man-shot-dead-for-eating-popcorn-too-loudly-during-Black-Swan.html

[Initech]

1. I can see that getting annoying but man talk about overreacting!!

:yoiks:

[Ikonoklast]

3. "Everyone's a critic!"

[virgogal]

2. Do I laugh or feel badly about this? By the way

I hated "Black Swan".

[Bluebear]

5. If you laugh you may be a psychopath :P

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. Not a good movie?

[virgogal]

14. It's one of those movies where you get mixed reactions. Some

loved it,some hated it.

I found it really strange and disturbing.

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. from the commercials, I'd think I'd hate it.

[NuclearDem]

25. You'll either love it or hate it

I loved it...I mean, what gets better than a movie directed by Darren Aronofsky, music by Clint Mansell, and with a scene where Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis make out? :evilgrin:

[MineralMan]

4. What? I thought the death penalty was only for ringing cell phones

during movies. Who knew?

[pipi_k]

6. He should have asked for extra butter...

then the popcorn would have been too soggy to make crunchy sounds...

[undeterred]

7. This is why we need concealed carry laws in every state.

Can you imagine if nobody was armed in that theatre? :sarcasm:

[TheWraith]

10. Uh, 48 states have concealed carry laws.

This sort of thing still almost never happens in the US. Despite what you may think, not all people are deranged, murderous sociopaths just looking for a chance to kill somebody.

[klook]

13. Guns don't kill people.

Popcorn does. :popcorn:

[SoCalDem]

8. Channeling Rodney Dangerfield

Tough crowd!


poor guy:(

[leftstreet]

9. "Honey, this one's eating my popcorn!"

:hide:

[RufusTFirefly]

12. That settles it, Carl!

[TNDemo]

16. I find all the open-mouthed popcorn crunching

so annoying I have pretty much given up going to the theater. I'll just stick with netflix and avoid bedbugs to boot. However, instead of shooting people I just move to a seat as far as possible from the cud chewers.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

17. "...as the credits rolled ..."

Long fuse.

[Kaleva]

18. Wonder what the killer was thinking?

"As soon as the credits start rolling, I'm going to waste that SOB!"

[TheCowsCameHome]

19. Ya mean like this?

:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

[WinkyDink]

20. I'm sorry, but a murder in LATVIA is now considered a big story here?

[Kaleva]

21. It's not everyday one gets shot for eating popcorn too loudly.

[WinkyDink]

28. More's the pity.

JOKING!

[HEyHEY]

23. Yes the integrity of the DU general discussion forum's news judgement has

Certainly let down its own standards for news that affects public policy and is now going for trashy, tabloid style journalism.

[JVS]

31. The lounge used to have all the tabloid news.

But then one day in 2005 a thread about breastfeeding in public got more replies than a thread about a man being killed by having anal sex with a horse, and it was decided that serious issues like that were not to be trusted to the lounge.

That and a lot of the people in GD were too self important to post in the lounge.

[Kaleva]

33. The guy would have lived had he gone to the hospital right away.

By the time he did go, his perforated lower intestine was too far gone to save him.

[JVS]

27. I am a Latvian.

Hath not a Latvian eyes? Hath not a Latvian hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as an American is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?

[WinkyDink]

29. Point extremely well-taken . :-)

[NuclearDem]

30. Prick my Latvian skin...

And I'll probably bleed pure cognac :evilgrin:

[RagAss]

22. Now these are the kinds of issues we need to be talking about.

[HEyHEY]

24. If this were a Woman, we wouldn't be allowed to joke about it. I'm glad you're enjoying laughing at

A disgusting murder of an innocent man.

[NuclearDem]

26. Latvians are weird...

[walldude]

32. Hmmmm

:popcorn:

[apocalypsehow]

34. Hey, shit happens. The focus going forward should be the well-being of the poor, put-upon gun.

:sarcasm:

Another victim dead because an asshole with access to a firearm and an itchy trigger finger got annoyed at some triviality, and started spraying bullets in a movie theater.