I hate popcorn in cinemas too, the noise and the smell of it, but shooting people is wrong. I don’t know about Latvia but in London there are one or two cinemas or picture houses with no popcorn. The Barbican centre in one of them.
This article titled “Man shot dead in Latvian cinema for eating popcorn too loudly” was written by Catherine Shoard and agencies, for guardian.co.uk on Monday 21st February 2011 13.17 UTC A man has been shot dead at a cinema in Latvia after a fellow movie-goer objected to the volume at which he was eating his popcorn. The assailant, 27, reportedly had a brief argument with the man, aged 43, who was sitting next to him during a screening of Black Swan in the Forum cinema, one of the largest in the city of Riga. When the credits rolled, the younger man pulled out a legally registered firearm and shot the other man dead. Other audience members then phoned for the police and an ambulance. The younger man – a graduate of the police academy who holds a doctorate in law from the University of Latvia – waited to be arrested. The most recent incidence of cinema rage in the UK was in 2009, when a teenager threw bleach over a woman who tried to quieten a group of youths during a screening of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in Leeds.
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