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March 23, 2004

Look, Ma! Barbarians!

Apparently, a movie-goer was beaten pretty severely after shushing another theater patron at a screening of "The Triplets of Belleville" in Ann Arbor, Michigan last Saturday.

I would expect this sort of thing at a loud, violent, typically Hollywood movie, but "The Triplets of Belleville"? People shouldn't be beating each other down at screenings of indie French cartoons, for crying out loud!

It reminds me of the time, back during my undergrad days, when I witnessed a knock-down, drag-out fistfight at Starbucks. It ended with the two combatants running out of the coffee shop, the University Village police hot on their trail. As some unfortunate barrista mopped up the blood, I thought to myself, "Another safe-haven for the books-and-discussion sort, sacrificed to the barbarian hordes."

Posted by patrick at March 23, 2004 08:15 PM

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