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Author Topic: Customer on rampage in Oklahoma City Theatre Daniel Wright Expert Film Handler Posts: 163 From: Okmulgee, Ok , USA Registered: Oct 2003 posted 11-19-2003 05:21 PM                     http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/1103/110939.html The article fails to mention which theatre this happened at. At least no one was killed.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 11-19-2003 05:44 PM                     Please include the text of the article when posting a news link, as explained in the forum faq. quote: Man Claiming To Be Jesus Drives Into OKC Movie Theater Oklahoma City (AP) - Movie goers at an Oklahoma City theater were hit and ordered to bow to a man who drove his car into the theater and claimed to be Jesus Christ. Terrence Buford was arrested on complaints of assault and battery at the theater in northeast Oklahoma City. Police say Buford climbed onto his car yesterday, yelled that he's Jesus Christ, then drove into a ticket booth. Police say after ordering people to bow and hitting them, Buford began yelling that he wanted to know where a movie about the late rap singer Tupac Shakur is playing. The only theater operating in northeast OKC is the Cinemark Tinseltown.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 11-19-2003 06:52 PM                     Sounds like the wacko guy that blew thru the main gate at Fairchild AFB in 1989- He said he was Jesus (signed all his paperwork and statement 'Jesus Christ' and everything). When asked why he crashed the gate, he said that he wanted to take a B-52 back to Heaven... -Aaron  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 11-19-2003 06:53 PM                       The first violence related to the Tupac movie. (Shouldn't this be in Film Yak?)  |  IP: Logged Jeff Stuckey Film Handler Posts: 62 From: Oklahoma City, OK, USA Registered: May 2003 posted 11-20-2003 12:50 PM                     That happened at the Cinemark Tinseltown USA on I-44 at Martin Luther King Blvd. The news just loves that theatre to death because there is always something going on either in or around the theater. I was just there last night, and the box office really sustained only minimal outside damage. He didn't drive through it as some might picture. The general manager told me all about the events, and this guy really sounded like he was on PCP or some other wacko drug. He kept grabbing people waiting in line for concessions and telling them to bow before him. Another random event in the lives of crazy people and movie theaters. There's one a minute.  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 11-20-2003 04:28 PM                     Good point Tim, moving to Yak.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-20-2003 05:24 PM                     Cinemark Tinseltown in OKC kind of lives up to that old Chris Rock joke: "if you are driving on Martin Luther King boulevard in any city, you're in the shitty part of town!". The OKC Tinseltown location is pretty much on the north end of "the shit." I think it would have been more spectacular for the "Jesus driver" to plow into the ticket booth of the AMC Quail Springs Mall theater in Oklahoma City. Because then he would have to drive into the mall and go plowing through one of the primary walkways. Then he would have to launch his car off a walkway balcony down into the food court where some booths resemble old retro cars. Jesus driver's vehicle would slide to a stop as it smashed into the AMC ticket counter. Then, in the fashion of any Jerry Bruckheimer or Joel Silver production, the car would explode in a huge fireball that shatters all the atrium windows.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 11-20-2003 05:33 PM                        He must have thought he was Buford Pusser and he was Walking Tall  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 11-20-2003 07:10 PM                        If he is a god, shouldn`t he know which theatre that movie plays in rather than having to ask?  |  IP: Logged Manuel Francisco Valencia Expert Film Handler Posts: 151 From: Oklahoma City, OK, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 11-20-2003 10:10 PM                     Being an employee of this theatre and checking up on felony/misdemeanor reports I can tell you that statistically speaking this is one of the safest theatres in OKC. Fact of the matter is the news, papers, and all other media do not like to put out a lot of publicity about the theatre on the "nice" side of town. I believe this is the only case where we have had someone who was mentally ill do anything like this.  |  IP: Logged Daniel Wright Expert Film Handler Posts: 163 From: Okmulgee, Ok , USA Registered: Oct 2003 posted 11-21-2003 06:31 AM                     Why don't we just chalk this up as annother example of why people should NOT eat theatre nachoes.  |  IP: Logged

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