The first of many.

The Kübler-Ross model of grief needs to be updated for Americans to include the "How can I make money off this?" stage.

And the victimization of America continues. Yes it sucks some crazy a**hole with no money killed your friends and almost killed you. I'm sure you are traumatized by it. I feel bad for you, I really do, no one should have to deal with that. But aside from the killer, no one owes you sh*t. Is it the theatre's job to provide you with armed guards and metal detectors? No, but that's the next step. And the rest of us will pay for it.

Soldiers in Afghanistan deal with that kind of crap every day for worse pay than you probably make. They struggle with war trauma all the time. Welcome to humanity.

Not everything is the fault of others. Sometimes it's just one bad person who ruins it for everyone else.

I do however agree that there should be limits on assault rifles, particularly in the ammo/magazine department. You wanna go after someone? Go after the NRA. Go testify in Washington DC about how the guy didn't have to reload, about how you had to watch your friend die. Do something positive for the world, don't just get yours.

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I wonder how a Beverly Hills lawyer so quickly found a nobody in Aurora, Colorado.

You guys are really trying to make "Sideshow Bob" happen?

Sybarite: The Kübler-Ross model of grief needs to be updated for Americans to include the "How can I make money off this?" stage.

It's going to be towards the end of the scale. The reason this is the first guy to the lawyer is because he didn't have to stop at the hospital first.

There is a very good reason why emergency exits at movie theaters do not have alarms. It goes back to the old saying, you don't yell "fire" in a crowded theater.

bdub77: I do however agree that there should be limits on assault rifles, particularly in the ammo/magazine department. You wanna go after someone? Go after the NRA.


I was agreeing with you until that point.

Is he really a "shooting victim" if he wasn't shot? He should be too grateful to be alive to immediately start thinking of a payday.

Suing is as American as guns.

Shakespeare was right.

coco ebert: Suing is as American as guns.


Shhhh! You want to get sued?!?!

coco ebert: Suing is as American as guns.



the legal ramifications of a free society, what you don't like it? why don't you go shoot it.

Hoboclown: What possible argument could be made that the studio making the movie is at fault?


Probably some bullshiat that the Batman movies "inspired" him to commit this terrible act. If he was that inspired, then he should have dyed his hair Joker green instead of Ronald McDonald red.

keytronic: After careful consideration, I have to come down against the whole Sideshow Bob thing...

Fark has had some funny and biting nicknames before...but this one seems a little forced.

i agree, i just call him Dipshiat.

the 2 things lawyers don't mind wasting, time & money.

The website said Brown's attorney plans to target three defendants -- the theater, doctors who the attorney says gave the shooting suspect several medications and the movie studio that made "The Dark Knight Rises."


THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS.

Seems to me that between this gold digging asswipe and the guy who ran off and left his girlfriend, her daughter, and his 4 month old to their own devices, James may have been undertaking some noble form of population control, and perhaps he just has really, REALLY bad aim.

I like WWTDD's take on this asshole.

WhoIsWillo: It goes back to the old saying, you don't yell "fire" in a crowded theater.

I thought it went back to the old parable, you don't yell "fire" in a crowded theater?

I'm surprised all gingers weren't named as defendants as it is obvious that "derogatorily-named Simpson's character" was trying to emulate them with that dye job.

Hmmm, I saw a girl jump in front of a train once and it completely fexored with my head for a while. I should have lawyered up during my drinking binge. Ka-ching!