TIGARD, Ore. – A woman who thought she heard the word “gun” in a Bridgeport Village theater shouted the word, causing a panic and businesses at the mall to go into lockdown Friday night, police said.
Police responded to the mall, but Tigard Police Department spokesman Jim Wolf said there was never a weapon.
A police officer at the scene said the woman, who has post-traumatic stress disorder, was watching the movie "Prisoners" when the incident happened.
The incident started when a man in his 70s urinated on a 14-year-old boy during the movie, sparking a confrontation between the boy's father and the man, police said. The woman, not aware of what was going on, then shouted "gun," setting off a panic inside the theater and causing moviegoers to flee.
"She was having an episode because of the movie and the emotion in the theater with the lights out," Lt. Erick Boothby said. "She seemed very confused and upset over the whole matter."
Boothby said the teen's father "took the older gentleman to the ground and held him there." That dust-up involved yelling and screaming, the spokesman said.
Most of the 100 patrons in one theater of the multiplex ran into the lobby and out the door after several people repeated the alarm, he said.
Businesses at the mall, including American Apparel, which is right next to the theater, went into lockdown.
Alcohol may have been a contributing factor in the man's decision to urinate on the boy, police said. No arrests were made.
Officers from other agencies were headed to the theater when it was determined to be a false alarm.
“This was a good dry run for a real theater shooting,” Wolf said.
The last line from the cop is the icing on the cake.
Diego certainly looks younger than his age then, and it seems that he's doubled, if not tripled his upper age limit
WacoFan wrote:Flying any airplane that you can hear the radio over the roaring radial engine is just ghey anyway.... Of course, Cirri are the Miata of airplanes..
A liquored up 70 year old whips it out in the theater, wizzes on a teen boy, dad rather rightly issue a whoopin (because I ain't believing the "took him to the ground" thing), psycho drama queen starts yelling fire GUN! in a crowded theater, panic ensues, shnazzy mall starts going into lockdown, and the guy my local PD chose to be their "spokesman" decides to dismiss the whole thing as a good training exercise that he refered to as a "dry run," a claim that's doubtful the aforementioned 14 year old would agree with...
The way the average T1B poster read Dinsadale's post.
Dinsdale wrote:A liquored up 70 year old whips it out in the theater, wizzes on a teen boy, OMG A DIEGO RESET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dad rather rightly issue a whoopin (because I ain't believing the "took him to the ground" thing), psycho drama queen starts yelling fire GUN! in a crowded theater, panic ensues, shnazzy mall starts going into lockdown, and the guy my local PD chose to be their "spokesman" decides to dismiss the whole thing as a good training exercise that he refered to as a "dry run," a claim that's doubtful the aforementioned 14 year old would agree with
"Once upon a time, dinosaurs didn't have families. They lived in the woods and ate their children. It was a golden age."
—Earl Sinclair
"I do have respect for authority even though I throw jelly dicks at them.
Dinsdale wrote:A liquored up 70 year old whips it out in the theater, wizzes on a teen boy, dad rather rightly issue a whoopin (because I ain't believing the "took him to the ground" thing), psycho drama queen starts yelling fire GUN! in a crowded theater, panic ensues, shnazzy mall starts going into lockdown, and the guy my local PD chose to be their "spokesman" decides to dismiss the whole thing as a good training exercise that he refered to as a "dry run," a claim that's doubtful the aforementioned 14 year old would agree with...
and you guys come up with Diego resets.
Fuck.
if we tried to drop Luther resets, nobody would get them. Besides, Luther's retired or playing dead or something
WacoFan wrote:Flying any airplane that you can hear the radio over the roaring radial engine is just ghey anyway.... Of course, Cirri are the Miata of airplanes..
WacoFan wrote:Flying any airplane that you can hear the radio over the roaring radial engine is just ghey anyway.... Of course, Cirri are the Miata of airplanes..
