Lets roll!

I've serviced fire alarms in big cinemas like that. The protocol is pretty complex. Once smoke is detected anywhere in the building *all* of the projectors shut down, the RTU's are shut off, house lights come on full brightness, emergency exit signs flash, elevators recall & lock open, and a coded message - "the siren tone" with voice egress directions are announced on all speakers. We spend a lot of effort to make all that happen.

I want to know why the fire alarm didn't do that.

Of course, the fact that he beat the crap out of several cops had nothing to do with it. The initial broadcast showed him kicking punching and pounding on cops, till backup arrived. MSM edited that part out for the replay a few minutes later.

In the late 70's there was a theater that showed The Rocky Horror Show every weekend and it was a blast to go just to watch the critters. ^_^

TDD

One in Cincinnati did that through most of the '80s.

Given the amount of ballistic protection that the guy had, I doubt that one person with a pistol would have been able to do much.

Thanks for the input on this!

Another very good and cogent question. Let us hope the investigators were able to determine this (or bothered to check) and that the evidence has not been "cleaned up" and/or the security tapes recycled [erased]. Now where are the so-called investigative reporters?

As in so many incidents lately, including random mass shootings, we are left with far more questions than answers

-- far more myths than facts.

Yes there is.

One report said he had a used ticket on him when he was arrested.

Based on that, he probably went in normally, slipped out the exit (why no alarm?), rigged the door, dressed up and came back in.

More will come out in the next few days.

And more will come out of the fantasy-heroes here in the next few days as well.

Are you?

...directly for the nearest police station to report the incident. Leaving the scene and hoping they don't catch up to you isn't a good plan. It *is* a felony.

Head shot. ^_^

TDD

Did he?

There are no alarms on the side/back doors of the theater here. Everyone walks out the doors after the show is over.

You seem to be having fun, too.

If it's like a lot of commercial alarm installations that I've seen it was wired with surface mounted switches & exposed wiring. Then all you need is a jumper with a couple alligator clips to jump the switch on the door. I've seen more than one door where the switch had been bypassed & left that way after it went bad.

In any case, there should be two systems monitoring the exits, with the switches inside the door frames. One for security, and a second as part of the burglar/fire alarms

It's just when they're read that they turn into Technicolor displays.

Gunner Asch on Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:09:06 -0700 typed in alt.survival the following:

"We find the defendant Not Guilty, and he can keep the mule."

I remember reading of a rather bad individual who was shot dead, in the street, middle of the day. Yet nobody recalls seeing anything, or hearing anything. Strange how that sometimes happens.

pyotr

"Michael A. Terrell" on Sun, 22 Jul 2012

Something like 230 plus copies of the film were being viewed regularly at the peak. For something which was not in any rotation, that's a lot of copies for a film which bombed when first released.

'Camp knows no taste' ;-)

The central station will have all those records in chronological order as each detector was tripped.

If smoke was filled so thick as they say, the FA would have detected it and acted accordingly. If not, the FA was malfunctioning or there wasn't as much smoke as we've been told.

If it's installed correctly, the EOLR would prevent the jumper trick. It probably had no EOLR supervision.

Yup, one for the alarm and one for a door position switch for the employees to monitor propped doors. I've installed lots of systems on college campus dorms that's all it did - sound the keypad with a zone indicator saying which door has been open for more than "x" seconds.