Three people were injured Friday night when panicked audience members "self-evacuated" during a performance of the musical "Hamilton" in San Francisco, police said.
A woman in the audience had a medical emergency during the scene in which the title character, Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, is shot on stage, said Joseph Tomlinson, public information officer for the San Francisco police.
Audience members mistakenly thought there was a real-life shooting and rushed the exits, he said.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @07:15AM (16 children)
FUD have a strong grasp on American society. Looks like the Terrorists won!
(Score: 2) by bradley13 on Sunday February 17 2019, @08:41AM (15 children)
I have to agree. If someone claims there's a shooter, a mass panic is the worst possible response. Almost as bad is what happened in the French nightclub, where people packed into the toilets. Either just gives the hypothetical shooter a bunch of easy targets.
The only answer is the flight 93 answer. Yeah, I know, easy to say - still, I hope that's how I would respond in the situation.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 17 2019, @08:52AM (1 child)
Three thumbs up. Lots of people want to be remembered as a hero, for whatever they did or didn't do on 9/11/01. The real heroes took the plunge into a Pennsylvania hillside.
A lot of people can do what those heroes did. The problem is, we have been conditioned to submit. If we ever stop conditioning submission into our children, we won't need to fear anyone, or anything.
(Score: 1) by oakgrove on Tuesday February 19 2019, @12:55AM
>If we ever stop conditioning submission into our children, we won't need to fear anyone, or anything
Ain't that the truth
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday February 17 2019, @08:58AM (11 children)
You don't know until you test it. But I really believe I'd run up there, onto that stage. Even if I didn't have a weapon.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 17 2019, @09:24AM (10 children)
Your lack of military experience is showing. I am the weapon. All of those things that YOU think of as weapons, are merely tools to me. I would prefer to have the proper tool for the job at hand, but I can always find SOME KIND of tool. Using your ball point pen as a weapon seems ludicrous, but the hijackers used tools only slightly more suited to the job than a ballpoint. Boxcutting knives? FFS - the ONLY reason they got away with it, was the conditioning drilled into our population for the prior 30 years.
"Cooperate with your hijackers, and everything will be fine."
I say, kill your hijackers, and everything will be finer.
(Score: 4, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday February 17 2019, @10:18AM (7 children)
Look, I'm not afraid to say Radical Islamic Terrorism. And I'd use my hair as a weapon, if it came to that!!
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Sunday February 17 2019, @08:07PM (6 children)
Scared stupid people build walls. Makes them feel better, even though the data shows walls aren't the best value for the money.
At public gatherings, walls, gates, and other such restrictions on movement get people killed. Business owners have locked employees inside the workplace, thinking that would reduce various forms of theft and malingering. Instead, as was shown at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, that practice condemned a lot of innocent workers to death when a fire broke out. Burglar bars have also caused deaths by preventing people from fleeing from a fire.
Animals have lots of tricks of a similar sort that work against other animals, but which are completely useless against people with technology. A turtle's shell is a sort of personal wall, and is no defense whatsoever against a human with a few simple tools. A big rock is enough to beat a turtle shell. Another method is to cage the turtle and wait it out. Similarly, porcupine quills are no defense against humans with a few simple tools.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @09:19PM (2 children)
This is hilarious to see people trying to say walls don't serve a purpose, you are being trapped in the most idiotic position by a moron like Trump. What is dumber than a moron?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @11:43PM (1 child)
Imbeciles and idiots are dumber than morons, with idiots being the dumbest. http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/03/the-words-moron-imbecile-and-idiot-mean-different-things/ [todayifoundout.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @12:22AM
It all makes sense that they rise to the top over there then.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @12:24AM (1 child)
Watch the movie jungle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_(2017_film) [wikipedia.org]
Even though starving to death he still won't kill a turtle to eat it. I really think I would do the same, I do not want to see what is under that shell...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @02:48AM
Turtles are delicious.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 18 2019, @02:52AM
Yes, maybe. I note that Hillary has a virtual fortress to protect her property. The image of Pelosi's property that circulates via email with HUGE walls is inaccurate, but she DOES have a wall. All of Hollyweird erects walls at their events, to keep the riff-raff out. Walls, walls, walls - everywhere you look, socialists have walls.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by legont on Sunday February 17 2019, @03:38PM (1 child)
The real message they are drilling is "Cooperate period, and everything will be fine."
One of the favorite subjects of ESL discussion classes is how incredibly obedient Americans are; both, people and dogs.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @10:32PM
I read this as "corporate period". Now the new thing is that since corporations are people, and all people menstruate [telegraph.co.uk], corporations have periods too.
(Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Monday February 18 2019, @02:37AM
I heard decades ago that "You charge an ambush"
Presumably that works better if you have a bunch of buddies with the same training though.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday February 17 2019, @07:49AM (4 children)
Folks, I haven't seen this one. My V.P., sometimes referred to as Mike Pence, saw it. Before he took his seat, a week after that incredible night with the maps turning red, red, red. Let me tell you, he wishes he hadn't. He saw it in New York. And it was nothing but Vice Presidential Harassment. For them, strictly politics. HIGHLY OVERRATED!!!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 17 2019, @08:07AM (3 children)
TFA is some funny shit, IMO. Your post is almost as funny. You people in Washington were sent there to be harassed. The only reason you are there, is so we have someone to take our frustrations out on. The Veep, being the most useless person in Washington, is most accustomed to being the public's whipping boy. Now, stop your whining, you special little snowflake. Stop sniveling, and maybe you can graduate to the big bus.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @09:47AM (1 child)
Coward Runaway! Navy? Only appear to be brave, because they cannot run way fast enought as a ship, and certainly not as individual seamen, though doubtless Runaway would Runaway, since that is what runaways have been doing, since prior to 1956. But that is not important.
Runaway! There are Muslins! and Linsey-woolseys! Not to mention ginghams and calicos, headed directy towards your position! I hear of caravans of Trailblazers, followed by massive optical illusion bug clouds, crossing the boarders and the room and boarders with babies on board. My gawd you are stupid and afraid, Runaway! I will personally direct the waves of ISIS crossing the boarder to you house, just for shits and giggles Let me know when they get there, and post the video on Snapchat, OK, Runaway, you idiot?
(Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Monday February 18 2019, @02:52AM
Yeah, pretty sure runaway is a riff on #walkaway.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 2) by DeVilla on Saturday February 23 2019, @02:47AM
OK. He's funny once in a while. But when ever someone replies to him as though he is who he's mocking it really takes on a Punch and Judy feel. I'm waiting for someone to burn him in effergy.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @02:07PM (5 children)
He is the inventor of the nation’s fractional reserve banking where debt IS money. That dollar bill in your pocket is owed to someone somewhere and drawing interest this very second.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iFDe5kUUyT0 [youtube.com]
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @02:56PM (3 children)
How is it possible for you to literally lower the collective IQ of the entire room when you walk in?
Statements like yours are so far from any grounding in fact or reality that they cannot even be described as wrong anymore.
Dollars don't carry an interest. We don't owe anything "for each one circulating".
If we owed a debt, it would be a debt to ourselves, payable in dollars. So that doesn't work now does it?
There is nothing wrong with fractional reserve banking in and of itself. The problem is when the fractional part gets too small to service the needs of all customers. Such as during a bank run. But with the advent of electronic currency, this is no longer an issue because you aren't carrying paper around.
The paper in your wallet has less and less relevance with each passing day. Paper money is the new gold. People want it because they believe it has some intrinsic value, and just like gold, it doesn't. Money is only worth what you can buy with it and If SHTF, you aren't going to be able to trade paper for food, water, fuel, bullets etc, any easier than trading gold for those things. But at least with paper money you can wipe your ass with it.
In the meantime, please take an economics course and learn something instead of regurgitating conspiracy theories, especially ones so easy to disprove.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @03:10PM
Though the linked video is produced by a “gold bug”, there are economic critiques of fractional reserve banking
https://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Criticism_of_fractional_reserve_banking [mises.org]
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Sunday February 17 2019, @09:22PM (1 child)
Gold has an intrinsic value in electronics
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @10:17PM
Also, gold is what the Annunaki bred humans to collect in one place for when they return. They need it for some sort of space tech.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @06:18PM
Isn't Hamilton just Democrat policy porn? Kind of hilarious, like fainting goats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we9_CdNPuJg [youtube.com]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by CZB on Sunday February 17 2019, @04:48PM (3 children)
I guess when your fiction is taken as reality that's some pretty good stagecraft.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @06:43PM (2 children)
I read that in the early days of cinema, people sometimes fled the room when the film showed a train heading for them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @12:36AM (1 child)
I was playing the VR resident evil and tried to put my drink down on a VR table. So, I can believe it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @06:15PM
Wow, you're pretty chill when surrounded by Zombies.