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Zap2it On the Scene: Comic-Con 2010
Comic-Con 'stabbing' in Hall H shocks fans [UPDATED]
Violence erupted at Comic-Con in San Diego's Convention Center Saturday, July 24.One fan in a Harry Potter shirt allegedly stabbed another guy just under the eye when one of them refused to switch seats in Hall H. [UPDATE: More reports are trickling in saying that the attack was not in fact a stabbing, but a severe scratch.]
Entertainment journalist Jen Yamato tweeted: "Uh, guards just escorted out a guy in handcuffs. Limping, blood on his new Comic-Con exclusive Harry Potter t-shirt. Look for it on YouTube."
Eric Goldman from IGN tweeted out a photo of the man being helped out of the Convention Center. It appears that blood is on his white t-shirt.
The victim was removed on a stretcher.
A friend of Zap2it on the inside tells us that Hall H is on lockdown. Nobody is allowed in or out for the time being. She also informs us that other fans subdued the attacker until authorities arrived.
Fans in the cavernous Hall H -- where Comic-Con previews upcoming movies with trailers and panel sessions -- had just finished with the "Resident Evil: Afterlife" panel and were waiting for the Marvel Comics panel to begin when the fight took place.
Cole Abaius also tweeted out the event: "Cops here in Hall H. Stretchers. Guy bleeding from the eye. Might have been stabbed somewhere./ Guy wearing Harry Potter shirt just got arrested in Hall H. Aggravated Assaultiamous./In all serious, this stabbing took the air out of the room. It's awful. Hope the guy is alright./Thanks, Comic Con. Show the Machete trailer after the stabbing. Very classy."
UPDATE: Around 6 p.m. Hall H resumed their panels, beginning with Harrison Ford's "Cowboys and Aliens." Attendees are now free to leave if they wish.
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Well, ya dun goof'd...
Sure leaves alot to the imagination... It's a disgrace that something like this could happen with all those superheroes around. Must have been Darkseid, or Galactus, or some other cosmic heavy-hitter.
I'm only surprised that this hasn't happened sooner. The creeps who run Comic Con have sold out to Hollywood and treat the fans like cattle . With that many people confined to that relative small size of a space being whipped into a frenzy of "be there RIGHT NOW or you LOSE!", and sooner or later someone is gonna snap.
And the CC sellouts will naturally ignore themselves as the cause and simply make things even more authoritarian and abuse the fans even more, starting at next year's con.
Hey,Zap2it!! You ever going to spruce this article up with some actual text?
You gotta be kidding? A nutcase was a nutcase ***before*** he entered ComicCon, the Con did not make him violent. There's a hundred thousand people who conduct themselves well because they don't find an inconvenience or pressure to get to the next event as a reason to go postal.