Preacher's Mid Credits Sermon Causes Panic During Avengers:Infinity War Screening In California

[Initech]

REDLANDS (CBSLA) — An outing to catch one of the season’s most anticipated films turned into a panic-filled afternoon for some moviegoers Friday.

Armed officers rushed to the Harkins Mountain Grove 16 theaters in Redlands, where people had just finished watching the latest installment of the “Avengers” franchise, fearing there might a gunman inside. Witnesses said when the movie was over, a man stood up and started yelling in what sounded like a preacher’s sermon.

“I think when he said, ‘If you were to die tonight, would your passage to heaven be guaranteed?’ — something along those lines — I think that’s when people started panicking,” Susie Arias told CBS2 News.

Arias said she and her partner were able to walk out, but they said people behind them started running and pushing in an effort to exit quickly.
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/04/27/redlands-preacher-michael-webber-avengers-panic/

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[dixiegrrrrl]

1. He is damn lucky no one shot him.

I can just hear the end to that stupid move if movie goers had guns. Bodies everywhere.

[Initech]

2. Yeah this is California here.

If he had tried this in Nevada or Arizona I can guarantee we would have heard much worse news.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Or alabama....n/t

[RockRaven]

3. Some God-botherers

aren't happy unless they are intruding in everyone else's life all the time. Screw off, public preachers.

Even without a "good guy with a gun" playing hero, or the cops shooting someone holding a cell phone, someone easily could have been trampled. Irresponsible jerk!

[TlalocW]

4. This guy has no common sense

You've got what is likely a bunch of emotional people in a theater.
The lights aren't coming on as fast as you would like so you go ahead and stand up to yell.
As soon as you start yelling, people are going to be reacting to you. The longer you yell, the more difficult you'll be to hear because of increased reaction from the crowd.
That means most people are going to hear the word, "dying," and not the message you want them to hear.

TlalocW

[Initech]

5. This is literally yelling "fire" in a crowded room.

And the people are more likely going to react the same way that people did when George Costanza did it.