# Man opens fire in Colorado movie theater **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/man-opens-fire-in-colorado-movie-theater/264451 **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic **Created:** [July 20, 2012, 11:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/man-opens-fire-in-colorado-movie-theater/264451 "2012-07-20T11:54:20Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 169
### Author: ![Vovchandr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vovchandr/32/6275_2.png) [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr) #### Post date: [July 25, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/man-opens-fire-in-colorado-movie-theater/264451/169 "2012-07-25T14:26:03Z")
> [@Water Powered Cars... why not?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/water-powered-cars-why-not/55290/13): > > ATF and FBI have announced firearms sales have spiked since this event occurred. Yep especially in Colorado. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/colorado-gun-sales-up-after-movie-massacre/2012/07/25/gJQApYaI8W\_video.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/colorado-gun-sales-up-after-movie-massacre/2012/07/25/gJQApYaI8W_video.html) 3 spin off arrests too… > There have been three spin-off crimes following the dark night at the Colorado shooting; as anxieties escalate, authorities are hypervigiliant, and provoking mass hysteria is not at all a laughing matter, as the three arrests make clear. > The most disturbing of the arrests regards Timothy Courtois of Biddeford, Maine, who claims he was carrying a weapon while watching the Batman movie on Saturday. Whether or not his report is accurate, when he was pulled over for speeding — he was pushing past 100 with his emergency lights on — what the police found in his car was enough to place an arrest. **He had an AK-47 assault weapon, four handguns, ammunition, and clippings about Holmes’ mass shooting from Friday.** His purported goal was not theater related, however; he claims he was on a mission to kill his ex-employer. > > The other two incidents might normally be taken as relatively unimportant, if it were not for the charged atmosphere: When the 52-year-old California Clark Tabor grew impatient with the delay of his movie, and he called out “I should go off like in Colorado,” and asked the crowd “Does anybody have a gun?” it seems his fellow movie-goers didn’t appreciate his humor. Its not a matter of such a joke being “too soon,” but being in the category of “never at any time.” At least police thought so. After they searched him, finding no gun in his backpack, nor any at his home, they charged him for making terrorist threats. > **[3 Spin-Off Arrests After Colorado Shooting | JDJournal](https://www.jdjournal.com/2012/07/24/3-spin-off-arrests-after-colorado-shooting/)** > > There have been three spin-off crimes following the dark night at the Colorado shooting; as anxieties escalate, authorities are hypervigiliant, and provoking mass hysteria is not at all a laughing matter, as the three arrests make clear. The most... --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/man-opens-fire-in-colorado-movie-theater/264451)._