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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 itโ€™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 boyโ€™s father and the man, police said. The woman, not aware of what was going on, then shouted โ€œgun,โ€ setting off a panic inside the theater and causing moviegoers to flee.

Favorite part, aside from โ€œall of it,โ€ 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 โ€œgunโ€ but surprisingly little about why a man would urinate on a boy during a movie, is here.

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  1. The last line also bears repeating: โ€œ’This was a good dry run for a real theater shooting,’ Wolf said.โ€ Assuming this wasn’t taken out of context, it encapsulates so much of what is wrong with our country right now.

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