# My local theater caught a guy with weapons **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 7, 2012, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-theater-caught-a-guy-with-weapons/630724 "2012-08-07T12:31:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-theater-caught-a-guy-with-weapons/630724/41 "2012-08-09T17:08:47Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > America… Someone is caught with a backpack full 'o guns at the cinema, and the response is: It IS weird. You’re weird. :mad: 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-theater-caught-a-guy-with-weapons/630724/42 "2012-08-09T17:53:44Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > I was on good terms with the school counselor though, so she let me and a couple of my friends stash our instrument cases behind her desk during the day. I’m guessing she wasn’t familiar with the practice of stashing [Thompson submachine guns in violin cases](http://home.comcast.net/~gunspotz/us_rifles/Thompson/4830case.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-theater-caught-a-guy-with-weapons/630724/43 "2012-08-09T21:15:01Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > I’m guessing she wasn’t familiar with the practice of stashing [Thompson submachine guns in violin cases](http://home.comcast.net/~gunspotz/us_rifles/Thompson/4830case.jpg). Oh no, I was in Band. You’re thinking of those no-good hooligans in the Orchestra. I hate that people can’t tell the difference between two such different groups based on such superficial similarities. ☹ Something something vague justification for using the pun “Senseless Violins” ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-theater-caught-a-guy-with-weapons/630724/44 "2012-08-09T21:41:54Z")
A couple years ago I openly-carried my (holstered) 9 mm while taking my children to see a movie. No one cared. This is Ohio. Open carry state and all that. I suspect I would receive a different reaction should I do it now. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-theater-caught-a-guy-with-weapons/630724/45 "2012-08-10T04:44:39Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > Oh no, I was in Band. You’re thinking of those no-good hooligans in the Orchestra. I hate that people can’t tell the difference between two such different groups based on such superficial similarities. ☹ > > Something something vague justification for using the pun “Senseless Violins” It all ties together with too much sax and violins. I kept a rocket launcher stashed in my trombone case. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-theater-caught-a-guy-with-weapons/630724/46 "2012-08-10T16:06:30Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > This was one of my first thoughts when I heard “backpack.” Some guys I used to work with would carry backpacks to work to bring their lunches and maybe workout clothing, but I don’t think they used them as I use a purse. Exactly. Which is why I always carry my wallet, cell phone and keys in a rifle bag. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-theater-caught-a-guy-with-weapons/630724/47 "2012-08-10T17:27:27Z")
Great story in today’s Cleveland Plain Dealer about this. ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-theater-caught-a-guy-with-weapons/630724/48 "2012-08-10T17:33:14Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Exactly. Which is why I always carry my wallet, cell phone and keys in a rifle bag. I actually remember people would try to carry some of the equipment from my company in an soft side rifle bag. It never occurred to me to wonder what problems that they would have when they tried to carry it on a plane. Maybe they would have to stencil in big letters on the side “NOT A RIFLE”. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-theater-caught-a-guy-with-weapons/630724/49 "2012-08-10T17:37:50Z")
One should expect when _Fifty Shades of Grey_ shows up in theaters that women will be searched for ropes and other things. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-theater-caught-a-guy-with-weapons/630724.md?page=2)