Incident only started with man urinating on 14-year-old while watching a movie
Posted without (much) comment: This gem of a paragraph from a news story from KATU-TV out of Tigard, Ore. It has nothing to do with Cambridge, but it’s just such an amazing, imagination-sparking bit of prose.
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.
Favorite part, aside from “all of it,” would have to be the deadpan line about the urination sparking a confrontation. It would, right?
The full story, which clarifies a tiny bit about why the woman yelled “gun” but surprisingly little about why a man would urinate on a boy during a movie, is here.
The last line also bears repeating: “’This was a good dry run for a real theater shooting,’ Wolf said.” Assuming this wasn’t taken out of context, it encapsulates so much of what is wrong with our country right now.