25 Replies to “You Can’t Yell “FIRE!” In A Crowded Theater”

  3. I need the 5 W’s here. And the ‘H’ would be appreciated as well, but probably the most desired of the 5 W’s is “Why?”
    Just glad nobody was hurt. At least I’m assuming no one was hurt.
    And who are the morons cheering? Democrat voters?

    1. It happened in India in 2023.

      Also it proves no matter what, a crowd of people will cheer fire works.

    1. I had to read all the way to the end to see the author admitted that it was a JOKE to connect this REAL event to some silly, garbage, Hollywood film. As if “X spreads misinformation”.

      But again … if anyone AGAIN accuses me of jumping to conclusions … let me suggest there is a rather SOLID REASON for that. Because as my other post illustrates … it’s not out of character or unprecedented behavior.

    1. And that is why I follow Voltaire and tend my garden in the BC interior, far from the madding crowd as is possible.
      Oh, and avoid crowds and metropolitan areas as if your life, or what is left and salvageable of it, depended upon it.
      Please excuse my tortuous, periodic sentence.

      1. Follow Voltaire? just curious what you mean by this? And I’d like to see your garden. I’m still eating the spaghetti squash that had a booming crop last summer.

        1. Kenji
          I was alluding to Voltaire’s “Candide” who, after seeing the world, decided to tend his garden.
          Yeah, I can’t wait for gardening season, so I can tend it and mind my own business in peace with my dear wife.
          PS. good anecdote JMM

      2. Agreed, as a retired commercial interior designer, I try to avoid crowds OR if not possible, I always check for where the exits are located and what I would need to do to get out in a safe manner quickly.
        I DID go to concerts in my youth, but always felt uncomfortable and again would check for the exits.

        This is an amusing anecdote. My sister and I took our first cruise in the Baltics (Scandinavian countries and St. Petersburg). We went to see Swan Lake performed at this Russian theater from 1812 – this was during the Summer Solstice and the famous “White Nights”. The whole theater was a tinderbox waiting to go up in flames. Old (200 year old) wooden floors, NO sprinklers, very few exits, super long staircases (the bathrooms were in the basement and NO handicapped washrooms), no elevators and at intermission, it seemed as if all the Russians were smoking their heads off. Nothing happened, so perhaps I have become a mollycoddled Western person!

  6. Apparently this occurred in an Indian theatre a little over a year ago during a showing of Tiger 3.

  7. I recently grabbed dinner at an all you can eat buffet. While chowing down a bus of special needs kids showed up. As they came in the door they all ran (literally ran) over to the dessert bar whereby we were all deluged in proclamations of pure joy. “CHOCOLATE PUDDING. THEY HAVE CHOCOLATE PUDDING.”

    This reminded me of that.

    1. Good God Almighty.
      I remember that Billy Joel video, but it sure has aged in a dystopic manner.
      Almost gave me a Heart attack kak kak kak!

  9. I was at a showing of “Rocky Horror” 40 years ago when something like this happened. We all thought it was cool, at the start. Then it got less cool.

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