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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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"Hamilton": 3 Injured when Audience Flees During Performance in San Francisco
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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.
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