"creepy" is a good fit too.

Nah, insane would say that he had no control over his actions. I'm sure he sat there and said to someone "Hey, watch this." and laughed when people freaked out. That was equal to yelling "FIRE!" he needs his butt beaten for that crap.

He looks like he could put a light bulb in his mouth and it would light up.

Was this the "look" he was going for? kinda "bain" like --if so, you can not blame the audience for thinking he might be a copycat" --and with everyone already on edge -- you goota expect the reaction. As far as someone calling the police that there were "shots fired' --either they got carried a way --or it was a said deliberatly --knowing it would get a faster response.

My favorite is the first post from Death Rider..... Uncle Fester! and yep.... a good azz whoop would be the thing for this freak!

What the hell? What is up with this movie that nutjobs crashing it make the news lately? Is it because 'The Dark Knight Rises' has a blatant anti-populist, pro-super rich message? Is that it? Doesn't this crap happen at movie theaters anyway? Why is it that lately all these "wacko at a movie theater" stories are about wackos crashing 'The Dark Knight Rises'? Aren't there other movies out there that are getting crashed by wackos, or is it that this movie just draws crazy people to it?

Seriously, what the hell is going on?

So you can tell by looking at them, can you? The FBI can't. Funny all the worse serial killers of the last century looked like normal people, no one suspected them of anything until they were caught. Then, it was all about how there were "signs", you can see the insanity in their eye's, yada, yada, yada. Please. If that were true, would their be serial killers, if they were recognizable on sight? And if someone knows about them but says nothing or does not try to get them help, who's fault is it then?

As is the case with the Colorado movie shooter. It seems his problems were known for a long time before this happened. Even to authorities, so now who do we blame? Are not these people with advanced knowledge at least equally liable?

If you cant tell someone is crazy by looking at them, then you just aint looking hard enough.

Dandy416, that's a damn good description

I actually thought this nut job looked like George "The Animal" Steele, sans shoulder hair. I wonder if he chewed the stuffing out of any seats?

i just want to know what kind of sound system that theater has that made it so the gunshots could be heard at the police dispatcher's office but not at the scene!! and the 3D has to be pretty good too if it put a gun he didn't even have in the guy's hand

This guy is the victim. The 3 douche bags who restrained him should be charged with false imprisonment.

No way Big Trouble. He knew exactly what he was doing when he yelled that out. And you can definitely be arrested for causing a panic in a public place.

I agree with Big Trouble, You can't just assault some guy because you think he's dangerous...

Ok, this is it!

"You can't just assault some guy because you think he's dangerous..."

Sure you can, it's called "Stand your ground" right? ah hell it's FL.

Is Big Trouble being sarcastic???

Everyone is totally on edge after the horrific incident in CO. This idiot blurted out what most perceived to be a threat. AND...it was at a theater. I would do what the rest of the audience did....run, hide and thank the people that assaulted this complete and utterly insensitive moron.

I don't know if "Big Trouble" is joking or not -- but in a situation like this you are better "safe than sorry" -- the fact that this fool was not a "copycat' and did not have a gun -- and no "shots were fired" is just a happy ending to the story -- He very well could have done something --and he does have a record -- plus he was in fact drunk and disorderly and he did in fact "incite panic" these are all crimes -- and as other have said here (jokingly or not) --This happened in Florida --where 'stand your ground' and "deady force" is allowed when you "suspect' someone of wrong-doing or could inflcit bodily harm on yourselves or others -- there fore these three gentlemen were within their legal rights to stop him. if they gave him a few well-placed "hits' to restrain him would only be a bonus -- and one drunken guy's word against three citizens who would be backed up for their actions by the other people there @ the time.

Big Trouble is just a troll, the guy acted out knowing full well what he was doing, regardless his drinking. He put at risk everyone's health and welfare by his actions considering what happened in Colo., and he should be barred for life.

The guy was a moron, after what happened in CO you can't expect people will just calmly sit there and continue watching a movie while this idiot is screaming. I'm glad those guys held him so he can be charged, I sincerely hope they make him pay the cost of all those movie tickets as well as the cost of getting the police department out there for the actions of this fool. Then maybe some good ol' fashioned jail time, this guy wasn't thinking and he's going to have to reap the punishment for that.

He'll get jail time for the old assault warrant, not the screaming in the theater. Thing is, you can make a citizens arrest, it's all gravy until the lawyer get involved, they may well be paying off the judgement for many years to come. No weapon, no intent, just a drunken episode. I don't know, Lawyers live for things like this. You said it yourself, "This guy wasn't thinking". Intent goes right out the window, no intent no cause. You can't jail someone for not thinking, if you could, 90% of the D.C. hacks would be in jail.

"after what happened in CO you can't expect people will just calmly sit there and continue . . . "

Well, if we don't then the fear-mongers have already won.

@Blake-2644321 sooooooo by your logic, if you see someone pointing a gun at you maybe 3-5 ft away you will turn around and run?? Even though you will most likely get shot in the back running?? I would accept that I may get shot either way, but hell I would have at least a FIGHTING chance to save myself/Others if I A. Stall long enough B. actually get lucky enough and disarm him fully knowing it may not be so. That sir is called brass nuts. You know what engineers did during the Japan incident?? They walked into the leaking powerplant fully knwoing the suits will not protect them to further save others from disaster and mitigate the leak. This is how people should act. This everyone for themselves mentality is disturbing.

Hats off to you! Yours is one of the best posts on there that I have read.

In the video the Police Officer said somebody could have shot this guy for doing what he did and it would have been justifiable homicide because of what happened in Colorado. The man is an idiot and is lucky he didn't end up with a Darwin award. He did nothing wrong? He threatened a theater full of people. What if somebody had been trampled in the mass exodus from the theater this guy caused? He may not have had a gun but he still endangered people. Folks are a little freaked out and paranoid after Aurora and I bet this guy was using that. He's lucky there wasn't somebody with a CCL who was packing and willing to shoot. Justifiable or not, he'd be just as dead.

Michelle;

A conceal carry license is no substitute for common sense. A crowded theater, especially in a panic situation, makes dealing with a moron using a gun a risky proposition. It would be far too easy from a panicked person to step into the line of fire just as the trigger is pulled. Ending in a bystander getting killed. If you wait until the crowd thins out, then you face possible manslaughter charges, as the threat had pretty much ended.

I carry a gun daily. I have a CCW and I know you must weigh the need to deal with a threat along with the possible legal consequences. Criminals seem endowed with far more right than the law abiding. Being "willing to shoot" can put you on the wrong side of the law very quickly. Killing someone unintentionally carries prison time, killing someone a DA later decides wasn't a threat to your life and well being does too. There's much more to it than playing John Wayne and blasting the perceived bad guy. The laws apply and they are many and convoluted.

That said, suffer no illusions, if there is an armed idiot shooting around me, I would have no problem dropping them like a bad habit. This guy was not armed, so my guess is a DA would have a problem with you blowing him away.

You're correct. I was repeating what the Police Officer said in the video understanding he is not judge or jury. And I agree that a CCL is no sub for common sense. In fact more common sense is required of folks with CCLs because of situations like you discribe. My point was the guy was lucky there wasn't a dumba** with a gun in there who was willling to use it. In fact the people in the theater lucked out in that regard. The guy is still an idiot because somebody could have killed him or somebody else. Like I said, his actions endangered the people in that theater.

When I heard the Police Officer "spokesman" say that if someone with a gun "did what they needed to do" and shot him; with it being a "Justifiable Homicide", I couldn't believe he said that. Imagine the lawyers going after a case like that. I'm amazed that the spokesman even made it through the academy! I have a CCW and if I shot him, the responding police officers coming onto a "shots fired" scene would have killed me dead, thinking "I" was the perp. I guarentee they wouldn't stand behind a CCW shooting like this and the judge would put the "shooter" away for a LONNNNNNNG time (if he survived the officers bullets). What a goofball.

This mans actions absolutely could have resulted in one to dozens of people suffering minor to major injuries and perhaps even death. Don't care how drunk he was he is an adult and responsible for his own actions. Whatever he can be charged with needs to be pressed to the fullest extent of the law. Doubt if he has a pot to piss in but he could be civilly liable for the emotional harm done to his VICTIMS and yes, he made victims of the theater goers and should have to pay!!!

If idiots could fly this city would be an airport!

ram fla

the best coment i ever read, thanks for the laugh it was great

BTW: This happened in Florida. Does anyone else see a trend here?

Good point "The Painful Truth-2712888"

The next news story about the batman movie will happen in New Hamshire, right?

Did I get the pattern?

Florida, may well become the next California. California has long been known as the "Granola State", What ain't nuts and fruits, is flakes. Florida seems to be closing the gap pretty quickly. Cali, Colorado, Florida,,,,,, something about those blue states. Oh yes, I did. LOL!!!

California, is to Colorado as Florida is to ??? I still don't get it? Missouri?

Not Missouri Perhaps, as Florida is to NY?

I think you folks missed the point here -- it is NOT a math question -- The point is that events like this one (or worst) seem to be happening Florida again and again...

Like he article implied - alcohol was probably involved.

1. I hope they soak this idiot for a few thousand dollars. 2. If he was drunk, how did he get to the theater? Bus...OK. Drive...DUI charges. I know there could be other circumstances, but...jeez.

Unfortunately it is not PC to beat the sh*t out of dumba**e*!

"Unfortunately it is not PC to beat the sh*t out of dumba**e*!"

Sure it is, it's better to correct politics than to have politics correct you.

No, actually it is a crime and it's what many don't understand about freedom. Personal freedom extends only as far as one's nose. When one's actions place others in peril, it ceases to be freedom and becomes public endangerment. There is no such thing as absolute, inalienable freedom in a civilized society.

He was charged with disorderly conduct, which in Florida is basically drunk and disorderly; and affray, which is fighting. They are both misdemeanors. He wasn't charged with anything serious, or anything involving terrorism. It's always been illegal to get drunk and get in fights in public.

I was taught in my American Political Science class that freedom of speech is not what people take it to be. If he caused panic like he did, then he can be charged. :)

Its unfortunate that this isn't against the law. He should have to repay every one of those who fled the theater for their tickets and then some.

Or George the Animal Steele.

Bored@Work;

But what actually caused the panic, his words directly or the paranoia and mass hysteria of the people in the theater? Huge difference.

I personally would not feel threatened by the words "this is it". Absent a weapon in his hands, I would regard him as what he was, another pathetic agitated drunk.

The flight response in people seems to be the only one allowed these days. Apparently the fight response has been bred out or indoctrinated out of most. A sad commentary of the most successful predator to ever walk the earth,,,,, Baa-Baa.

Yeah, we should fight.

For one...disorderly conduct and public intoxication. For two I'm sure there is some type of law about inciting panic. Harrassment could be another charge.

The "fight" response can get you thrown in jail if you are the instigator. You have to be very careful in judgement when you choose to fight. Had this guy hit or even swung at anybody then a fight could potentially be justified as self defense. But just swarming him and attacking him is assault.

inciting a panic is hard to prove though. he could simply say that he said "this is it" cause it was at a part of the movie that was really good. the people in the theater were on edge on their own since it was reported that shots were fired when a gun wasn't even present. there are cetain things you can't say as they are purposely attempting to incite panic but "this is it" isn't one of them.

Yep!

You have to be in the union the police don't like scabs.

But Clotho above said this is a misdemeanor? Do we beat him, give him 6 months in prison, but wait we dont like paying for prisoners, arggh. This is so confusing, lets just beat him.

No one likes scabs. That IS why they are called scabs. Unless you're a CEO then they are supplemental workers.

rnelson...hate cops much? Or just pissed because you didn't get accepted in the academy?

It's sorta funny and not funny at the same time. What would be funnier or better, ironic, is if the judge would impose a course of "Anger Management" at sentencing.

lmao. Politically incorrect, stupid, illegal, and f-ing hilarious!

To think this is funny proves your level of intelligence. The people reacted appropriately in that situation. This is why it is against the law to holler 'fire' in a theater. Any idiot can cause a public panic by hollering certain things in certain situations and should be punished for it. I agree with Renee, the less notoriety these morons get the better. 'Patriodaddy', what else can be said other than you are a stupid human being calling these people cowards.

rebeljake

Yeah, real funny. Next time someone shoots at you at a movie theater don't run, cause it's just really funny.

Good point thepunisher-2054749

I am not even going out anymore this is so common

I thought you Texicans were supposed to be tough? Carrying guns, riding horses, bringing in the bad guys and all. What happened? You must be a Texicaness? This is so common? You live in Detroit? Chicago? Last time I looked there was huge difference between the guy in Colorado and this yahoo. Keep living in fear of shadows, rumors, whispers and imaginary boogeymen. I'll keep going on as always.

"thepunisher"??? Next time? Been shot at before, have you? I don't go to theaters, with all the noisy idiots you can't watch a movie anyway. But, I'm not going to stay home because someone might be drunk and stupid or loud or thuggish. However, if someone shoots at me, I'll shoot back. Everyone moves away from the guy with the gun so they are out in the open most of the time and an easy target. So hide in the house and wait for the home invaders if you like, they'll be along eventually. Jeeeeze.

Can we possibly make a bigger mountain out of a mole hill here? It must really suck to be so insecure. There are boogeymen, the deranged, thugs and other assorted criminal elements, the question is, Are you going to let the small chance of encountering one dictate your life? If so, how very pathetic.

punisher, IF he had shot a gun it wouldn't be funny, or IF he even had a weapon period. it is funny though cause he didn't and yet it got called in as shots fired.

People can't panic like sheep at every little thing. Perceived fear at nothing is not a crime...

Perceived fear at nothing is not a crime

Sorry to climb up on your soapbox while you're preaching but he wasn't charged with causing fear genius. He is charged with disorderly conduct and affray. Both crimes.

A dope yelling the same thing that the Aurora killer yelled before mowing people down at the same movie isn't a "little thing". Making people fearful CAN be a crime.

Then our government could be guilty of that crime.

The real crime was the fact that someone called 911 and reported shots were fired. That person is the one who should be charged. What if the police arrived and thinking someone was armed and end up shooting some innocent person by mistake?

Jails need to be less PC. Jail time s/b w/o TV, computers, exercise rooms, law books, etc. Prisoners should only have putting together puzzles as their "entertainment". Go on the internet and look at the federal prison in Il. It will make you sick...or want to commit a crime in Chicago. WE the people are spending way too much money on the comforts of criminals.

DietrichtheKaiser

Perceived fear at nothing? I fear idiots more than fear itself, that's the real fear, which was obvious. But hey you probably hang out with like people, I guess idiots don't fear each other.

Yes, FDR famously said: "there is nothing to fear, but fear itself" -- But he did not mean you should not be afriad if some nut class wants to shoot up a theatre as a copy-cat thrill after such a crime was recently committed. Seems everyone is a "the big tough guy/hero" --the farther away they are from the actual danger. I don't know, maybe guy's like Patiodaddy and those who agree with him would really be able to single-handed shoot the anti-aircraft weapons and automatic machineguns out of the hands of 1,000 MARINES using only a pea-shooter with one arm tied behind his back and one eye closed -- but if he was really sitting in that theatre --I think it would be more likely he would have ran for the exit door --after wetting his adult "Depends" -- Just a guess!

Sigh....The movie theaters are one of the few "luxuries" still around for the common man. Baseball game? Forget it. Bring the wife and kids and at least $200. A concert or play? If it's a "known" name, forget it. Ticket prices at $100 are the norm.

The movies have always been a magical place my entire life. For a reasonable ticket price and a couple of pre-purchased candy bars, you can lose yourself, forget your troubles and become immersed in something incredible.

Thanks to this dickhead and those like him, movie theaters will soon become like the airport and of course they are going to have to hire people to pat down your nether regions so the ticket price will go up. Maybe they will have to hire movie "marshalls" like they do on planes. We just keep inviting Big Brother into our lives and he will come on in every time.

I hate what we have done to this country.

Maybe he was really excited for a particular scene?

You sir need to stay off the internet until you learn how to read. Otherwise you will continue to look clueless.

Sure, he could have just been really, really excited for a scene in the movie. Or, hell, maybe he just felt like bursting into song and started singing the theme song from the sitcom One Day At A Time.

*facepalm*

In light of the recent events in Colorado and the media coverage the incident has received, a reasonable person would interpret yelling out "This is it!" in a late night viewing of The Dark Knight (especially since this same person had previously been showing agitated and potentially violent tendencies) as a threat of an act of violence. This is a crime and it is called inducing a panic and is a felony in many states. A reasonable person could also interpret his behavior as disorderly conduct and possibly public intoxication. Both crimes.

So, no, they were not charged with assault. They were performing a citizen's arrest, a completely lawful action. They witnessed an individual commit a crime or crimes and they detained him until police authorities could arrive to formalize the arrest.

And your other argument is specious. He was not really excited for a particular scene. Besides this just being false, a reasonable person is not going to make that assumption. And that is the key word in our justice system - reasonable. Reasonable doubt, reasonable suspicion, reasonable person standard. If you robbed a bank and went into court and argued "Your honor, I was stealing that money from the bank. I was just taking it for a walk. I was going to bring it right back." the jury would not be obligated to set you free because it might be true.

In other words:
Your post = fail

Excellent. Well wriitenand correct. By our "friend" logic it perfectly fine to yell out "bomb" or "Hi jack" @ the airport (which of course is not the case) -- and any reaction you might get by doing so would be unaccepting and uncalled for.

Yell bomb on a plane and watch the beating you get. Is that still Free Speech? F*ck no. Your right to free speech ends when it infringes someone else's right to be safe. Creating a panicked mob of theater goers will get people hurt. Thankfully it was just him this time.

What I want to know is if this guy looks like this normally, or did they beat him retarded?

The fact of the matter is that they already have such things @ public schools and local and state offices.

So just no guns period huh?

If guns are criminalized, only criminals will have guns. Wake up and use some (not so) common sense.

I was going to say and the police, But your right a large number of police are criminals.

try "you're" (contraction for "you are") instead of "your" (possessive).

Alain Deflandre

Do you argue with yourself a lot? or do you just love contradicting yourself?

Nothing funny about this at all. This jerk yelled the same thing that the mass murderer in Aurora yelled, at the same movie. Would love to see you on a plane where some moron yells, "Allah hu Akbar!" for "fun". You'd pee your pants.

I don't understand the lower charges. He should be charged with INCITING PANIC. He already has a warrant for battery and by looking at his picture, I'm certain he's been a problem all his life. He's a complete loser!!!

I agree, Inciting panic in a crowded theatre is against the law and he should be charged with that. Too those that think this whole thing is funny -- Well, yes, tahnkfully, we and those there in the theatre that night can "laugh" now -- since it did not turn out to be what they feared. Still this is no joke.

yeah, cause being drunk gives everyone an excuse to do stupid sh1t. Next time when you or a love one get struck by a drunk driver and get paralyzed or even dies, just laugh it off, cause they were drunk.

I suppose that's right, stupid people don't die off any longer, the government takes care of them with tax money.

We live in a country where the stupid are paid to breed.

Just to clarify for everyone else....

For the British submarine, see HMS Affray (P421).
A street fight.

In many legal jurisdictions related to English common law, affray is a public order offence consisting of the fighting of two or more persons in a public place to the terror (in French: à l'effroi) of ordinary people (the lieges). Depending on their actions, and the laws of the prevailing jurisdiction, those engaged in an affray may also render themselves liable to prosecution for assault, unlawful assembly, or riot; if so, it is for one of these offences that they are usually charged.

We should be thankful that did not happen.

Stupid comment. Ban the movie because of one idiot in Colorado??? Okay lets stop all trains because of shootings , lets not fly because there have been hijackings. Maybe repost something but use some common sense.

Wow, you're an idiot. But hey, so is everyone else, I guess, with the "Batman Connection." If this guy had yelled "this is it" like that in any other movie, 1) people probably wouldn't have cleared out so frantically, and 2) it probably wouldn't have even made the news. But since it was in Batman, it's a big hoo-haaa.

Sensitive un-american idouts, Stop playing a movie >? Stop allowing people to bare arms ! what is wrong with you people ! Pay more attention, is more like it... Freedom of the free to do noting ! WEAK SAUCE !

Friggin pathetic !

Ban the movie?! -- brilliant, just brilliant .. and why not ban the street if someone speeds?

You can't stereotype you might get sued.

@derphy; You might be right. I just read yor few dozen words above and I am now afriad you are a moron!

im afriad too yor right to be scared

Tweak your meds, bro.

Agreed 100%

Cappy hes 100 % right! Looking at your hall of fame picture i think u need some meds tweaked.

Who is Marshall Law?

He's the soldier who shoots you on sight.

What's wrong with you?

Alain...Your OVERUSE of ALL CAPS really TAKES AWAY from its EFFECTIVENESS. Oh, and also...you're a complete MORON. Ya' see what I did there? That's the RIGHT way to use ALL CAPS.

And Wiley, I believe Marshall Law is the Lawman who punishes badguys by making them sit in between 2 Marshall Stacks and rippin' some badass solos til their eardrums bleed and pop.

Thanks, JCmfD. That is what I was referring to. And JoeyC71, that is not my real picture, it's a mugshot I found online. I'm actually quite fetching.

Alain Deflandre

Dropping out of school is not cool dude.

Cappy-1911 -- that is not your real photo? What is this world coming to? When people on the internet are not as they present themselves? Now you are going to tell me you were not born in 1911.

See, I would not do that, I am from Texas and was born in 19456

Tell us the vehicle deaths vs guns per day ...

Speaking for old folks everywhere, we old folks wait until it comes out in video and watch it in the comfort of our homes. Because if we go to the theater, there are young @!$%#heads shouting, talking, spilling stuff, crying, dry humping in the aisle, texting, snapping their gum, laughing inappropriately and belching for effect.

My popcorn costs about 11cents per bucket, and my butter is real butter and not the lizard sweat they pour on the stale, made last month popcorn they sell in the theater. If I want to go to the can, I push "pause" on the remote, and take my time. and if someone runs into MY theater and interrupts my movie, I can legally shoot them between the eyes, and then back the movie up to where I was before being interrupted and watch some more while I'm waiting for the cops and the meat wagon.

and yeah...we like Batman just fine. Just not orange-haired butt monkeys that hallucinate they are entitled to act out in the theater.

I think I love you Steve.

Come on over and we'll watch a movie.

Steve you are the man..