Friday, December 26, 2008

The Curious Case of Getting Shot when Talking at the Movies


Last Night, my partner and I saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Great film, I highly recommend it. But during our night out at the movies, I sat next to a talkative idiot and his wife. I "shhhed" them and things were good.

Too bad this didn't happened at the Riverview Theatre.

A South Philadelphia man enraged because a father and son were talking during a Christmas showing of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button took care of the situation when he pulled a .380-caliber gun and shot the father, police said.

James Joseph Cialella Jr., 29, of the 1900 block of Hollywood Street is charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, and weapons violations.

"It's truly frightening when you see something like this evolve into such violence," said police spokesman Lt. Frank Vanore.

Police were called to the Riverview Theatre in the 1400 block of Columbus Boulevard about 9:30 p.m. where the gunshot victim, a Philadelphia man who was not identified, told police a man sitting near him told his family to be quiet and threw popcorn at his son.

After exchanging words, Vanore said Cialella allegedly got out of his seat to confront the family when the father got up to protect them. That's when the victim was shot once in the left arm, sending others in the theatre running to safety.

Cialella then sat down to watch the movie. Police arrived a short time later and arrested Cialella and confiscated his weapon, Vanore said.

Scary stuff

4 comments:

Marker said...

Yet another Cro-Magnon not fit to live in civilized society.

Unknown said...

he wanted to watch the movie that much?

YvesPaul said...

Oh my god. I'm lifting this and it happened in my city! Sorry V. and I know it's not a popluar point of view but I think my cinematic experience will be enhanced from now on when I say "You know someone in the city was just shot just for talking at the movies?"

Todd HellsKitchen said...

Wow!

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