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Man Claiming To Be Jesus Drives Into OKC Movie Theater

Oklahoma City (AP) - Movie goers at an Oklahoma City theater were hit and ordered to bow to a man who drove his car into the theater and claimed to be Jesus Christ.

Terrence Buford was arrested on complaints of assault and battery at the theater in northeast Oklahoma City.

Police say Buford climbed onto his car yesterday, yelled that he's Jesus Christ, then drove into a ticket booth. Police say after ordering people to bow and hitting them, Buford began yelling that he wanted to know where a movie about the late rap singer Tupac Shakur is playing.

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The only theater operating in northeast OKC is the Cinemark Tinseltown.
 

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Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 11-19-2003, 06:52 PM:
 
Sounds like the wacko guy that blew thru the main gate at Fairchild AFB in 1989- He said he was Jesus (signed all his paperwork and statement 'Jesus Christ' and everything). When asked why he crashed the gate, he said that he wanted to take a B-52 back to Heaven...

-Aaron
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 11-19-2003, 06:53 PM:
 
The first violence related to the Tupac movie.


(Shouldn't this be in Film Yak?)
 

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Posted by Jeff Stuckey (Member # 1718) on 11-20-2003, 12:50 PM:
 
That happened at the Cinemark Tinseltown USA on I-44 at Martin Luther King Blvd. The news just loves that theatre to death because there is always something going on either in or around the theater. I was just there last night, and the box office really sustained only minimal outside damage. He didn't drive through it as some might picture. The general manager told me all about the events, and this guy really sounded like he was on PCP or some other wacko drug. He kept grabbing people waiting in line for concessions and telling them to bow before him.

Another random event in the lives of crazy people and movie theaters. There's one a minute.
 

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Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 11-20-2003, 04:28 PM:
 
Good point Tim, moving to Yak.
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 11-20-2003, 05:24 PM:
 
Cinemark Tinseltown in OKC kind of lives up to that old Chris Rock joke: "if you are driving on Martin Luther King boulevard in any city, you're in the shitty part of town!". The OKC Tinseltown location is pretty much on the north end of "the shit."

I think it would have been more spectacular for the "Jesus driver" to plow into the ticket booth of the AMC Quail Springs Mall theater in Oklahoma City. Because then he would have to drive into the mall and go plowing through one of the primary walkways. Then he would have to launch his car off a walkway balcony down into the food court where some booths resemble old retro cars. Jesus driver's vehicle would slide to a stop as it smashed into the AMC ticket counter. Then, in the fashion of any Jerry Bruckheimer or Joel Silver production, the car would explode in a huge fireball that shatters all the atrium windows.
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 11-20-2003, 05:33 PM:
 
He must have thought he was Buford Pusser and he was Walking Tall
 

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Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 11-20-2003, 07:10 PM:
 
If he is a god, shouldn`t he know which theatre that movie plays in rather than having to ask?
 

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Posted by Manuel Francisco Valencia (Member # 710) on 11-20-2003, 10:10 PM:
 
Being an employee of this theatre and checking up on felony/misdemeanor reports I can tell you that statistically speaking this is one of the safest theatres in OKC. Fact of the matter is the news, papers, and all other media do not like to put out a lot of publicity about the theatre on the "nice" side of town. I believe this is the only case where we have had someone who was mentally ill do anything like this.
 

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Posted by Daniel Wright (Member # 1983) on 11-21-2003, 06:31 AM:
 
Why don't we just chalk this up as annother example of why people should NOT eat theatre nachoes.
 

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