Police: Man who saw Batman arrested with guns

[Bennyboy]

Source: WCVB



BOSTON - An arsenal of guns were seized from a Maine man over the weekend shortly after he saw "The Dark KnightRises," Maine State Police said.

A trooper stopped Timothy Courtois, 49, for doing 112 mph on the Maine Turnpike Sunday morning, police said. Motorists had reported seeing a speeding Mustang with its flashers on.

Upon pulling him over, police found an assault rifle, four handguns and several boxes of ammunition, they said. Also found inside his car were recent news clippings of the mass shooting at the Colorado movie theater, police said.

Police said Courtois then admitted to police he had attended the Batman movie at the Cinemagic Theater in Saco Saturday night with a loaded gun in his backpack. He also told authorities that he was on his way to Derry, N.H. to shoot a former employer.



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[NickB79]

1. Time to ban Batman movies?

[Larkspur]

3. That makes more sense than banning assault rifles

and gun control.

[NickB79]

16. They're both about as likely to be banned at this point. nt

[Igel]

42. They're banned. n/t

[wordpix]

54. not in some states, they're not

[4th law of robotics]

68. What state are you in that allows "assault rifles"?

[PavePusher]

86. Many states allow them...

as long as you go through the correct Federal process to obtain them.

[4th law of robotics]

88. It's pretty difficult

and crazy expensive.

[PavePusher]

89. Well, not particularly difficult...

just a lot of waiting.

The forms to fill out aren't even that very long. But the waiting time is 6-8 months, IIRC, once submitted. Getting the local Sheriff to sign off prior varies highly.

If you can afford a legal full-auto weapon (prices start at around $5K, again IIRC), you can afford the $200 tax stamp.

But I consider it to be a poll tax.... one all too many "progressives" are just sanguine about. Hypocrites.

Or you can go the way of a Trust, but that will get more expensive with the required legal paperwork. Easier in the long run if you intend to buy more than one though.

[elleng]

6. Ban former employers!

[justabob]

38. haha

good one.

[abolugi]

23. NRA is on it...

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2012/07/nra-proposes-sweeping-ban-on-movies.html

[frogmarch]

60. Poe's law at work there. It's hard to

tell if it's true or if it's satire!

[Kablooie]

79. But Batman refuses to use guns since his parents were shot when he was a kid.

Part of the Batman story.

Ironic that Batman is the movie that's become a gun magnet.

[Scootaloo]

2. No doubt he was just planning to defend the other moviegoers

You know, like we keep getting told should happen, by all our Responsible Gun Owners™

He also told authorities that he was on his way to Derry, N.H. to shoot a former employer.

...Oh. well. Uh...

[nichomachus]

15. But I'm sure that shooting his former employer

was going to be in self defense.

[Scootaloo]

25. Yeah, that guy's a thug, no doubt

[jeff47]

28. Sure! He was going to shout "I'm standing my ground!" as he pulled the trigger. (nt)

[hlthe2b]

29. Thank gawd for those "shot in the dark" heroes. .....

[snappyturtle]

4. I'm beginning to think there are people who never learn to discern

between reality and fantasy. imho

[elleng]

7. No doubt about it.

[maddezmom]

5. wth?

[dipsydoodle]

8. On his way to Derry, N.H. to shoot a former employer ?

No further comment.

[Mopar151]

64. I've worked in the area

There's some bosses around there who have it comin'!

[WilliamPitt]

9. Methinks a copycat was just thwarted

Unreal.

[Eric J in MN]

12. Shooting a former employer wouldn't make him a copycat.

If he had wanted to shoot people during a movie, he could have done it the night before.

[Javaman]

67. okay, then he was an "imitator".

does it really matter what label we give him?

[snooper2]

73. yes, labels do matter

At this point we should just call him a loser-

That may be upgraded pending more information about the case

[Javaman]

74. Loser works! nt

[Eric J in MN]

77. The crimes are different except for both being murder with guns.

One shot people he didn't know in a theater, the other planned to shoot his former employer.

Second guy wasn't a copycat or an imitatator.

[Blue_Tires]

70. He could have been planning to shoot up the whole workplace and not just the boss

[obxhead]

34. I think a copycat chickened out.

Thankfully!

He saw the movie with a loaded weapon. Who knows if he was planning something and changed his mind or was just a gun nut always carrying his gun.

[xtraxritical]

55. From now on metel detectors at all movie theaters and movie goers pay for it.

Get ready for it.

[OnyxCollie]

61. More likely: DHS/Michael Chertoff's virtual stripsearch machines

and taxpayers pay for it.

[RKP5637]

76. Yep, someone will see huge profits and go for it and put it on

the taxpayers like the rest of the hyped security. We'll probably hear the drums start beating for strip search machines at all movie theaters for big $$$$$$$$$$$ for the profit cartels.

[OnyxCollie]

78. It's already happening.

‘Homeland’ security coming to hotels, malls
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/26/homeland-security-coming-hotels-malls/

WASHINGTON – The United States is stepping up security at “soft targets” like hotels and shopping malls, as well as trains and ports, as it counters the evolving Al-Qaeda threat, a top official said Sunday.

A year after a foiled plot to bomb a US-bound passenger plane, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told CNN’s “State of the Union” program that other places and modes of transportation must now be scrutinized.

“We look at so-called soft targets — the hotels, shopping malls, for example — all of which we have reached out to in the past year and have done a fair amount of training for their own employees,” Napolitano said.

[RKP5637]

80. Yep, this sh** is going overboard, here's an article you might not have seen ...

"A hidden world, growing beyond control" Washington Post article

As usual, follow the money trail, big bucks are being made.

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/a-hidden-world-growing-beyond-control/?du

PS: Thanks for the link you sent!!!

[OnyxCollie]

82. You are most welcome

and thank you for your link.

[Electric Monk]

69. better idea: Gun sales pay for it

[NYC Liberal]

75. How long before the new security they'll claim is needed to prevent these tragedies

is expanded to things like preventing filming in theatres?

A few months ago I went to see a movie and near the concessions were probably 15 cops and another 5-10 theatre security guards standing around. Why? I shit you not, all of it was because someone had brought a camera into the theatre.

[obxhead]

83. That will be the last movie I ever go see in a theater too. nt

[Eric J in MN]

10. What does which movie he saw the night before matter?

If he ate at McDonald's the day before, does that make McDonald's responsible?

[nichomachus]

17. Probably

I haven't eaten in McDonald's in a long time, but the quality of the food did make me want to shoot someone.

[Scootaloo]

26. You eat mcdonalds food?

I just go in, order a plain cheeseburger, and buy extras of the toys. The toys go home with me, the burger goes to the seagulls... because I fucking hate seagulls.

[nichomachus]

36. Not in years

[lunatica]

66. Your post reminded me of this

I haven't had an opportunity to use it in forever.

[PavePusher]

87. McDonalds is food?

[hughee99]

20. I fail to see the relevance either, other than as an attempt to relate this story

to the one in Colorado. Hell, the guy in Colorado hadn't even seen the new batman movie.

[RedStateLiberal]

31. Because of this:

Also found inside his car were recent news clippings of the mass shooting at the Colorado movie theater, police said.

The fact that he had those clippings definitely makes me question why he went to the same movie with a gun.

It's quite possible he went to see the movie with a gun just in case, or he could have planned to be a copycat but chickend out. Regardless, it is relevant.

[xtraxritical]

56. McDonalds kills way more people than guns do. Ban them both!

[slackmaster]

11. Speeding, and creating a nuisance

He'll probably pay a big fine and get all the weapons back.

I don't know how severe of a charge the concealed handgun will be in Maine. In California a first offense is usually a misdemeanor unless there are drugs involved.

[Eric J in MN]

13. They may charge him with attempted murder. NT

NT

[slackmaster]

18. Telling the police that he wanted to shoot his former employer was a bad move

[Blue_Tires]

71. I'm surprised he said that, too

maybe he was on a bad drug trip...

[NJCher]

14. I know it's America

But it feels like the Twilight Zone.

It's bizarre...but then, it's not, really, given our current state of affairs.


Cher

[longship]

19. Several issues with this post

First, there are seven handguns in the picture and four rifles, one of which is clearly an assault type. So either the pic is bullshit, or the reportage is bullshit.

Second, the reportage is bullshit. It fans the flames that Batman movies causes gun violence. There have been movies with gun violence since the beginning of cinema. Nobody was complaining about it in the thirties, forties, fifties, etc. and don't get me started about Loonie Toons or Road Runner cartoons.

The only reason why this Batman movie is associated with gun violence is because of what happened Friday in Aurora.

Bullshit reportage.

[jeff47]

30. The picture includes the guns from his house. (nt)

[magical thyme]

48. newspaper clippings about the Colorado shooting found in is car make it relevant

I thought it was bs at first too, until I read that part.

He had newspaper clippings about the Aurora shooting in his car.

He admitted he had a loaded gun in his backpack when he went to the movie the night before.

It definitely suggests he was considering a copycat shooting and chickened out.

"Also found inside his car were recent news clippings of the mass shooting at the Colorado movie theater, police said."

[Enrique]

21. don't bring your guns to Batman

son.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

22. Wait a second

armed man driving 112 mph to shoot his former employer with his flashers on???

Holy batmobile....sounds like a meth head, not a copycat.

[L0oniX]

24. Trying to make a correlation between Batman and gun owners is ridiculous.

[bongbong]

27. Another

Another typical, law-abiding gun-religionist hard at work.

[Enrique]

32. i want to know who his former employer is

if he needs all those guns to kill him. did he work for Mike Ditka? Chuck Norris?

[Mopar151]

65. Family company....

"Family", lackeys and sycophants could be 20 people.

[sasha031]

33. if he wasn't stopped for speeding, there would be one dead employers & probably many others.

I can't keep up with it anymore...

[Tx4obama]

35. ... the judge set bail at $50,000 (WTF?)

So, now he can get out of jail by putting up only $5,000

Is the judge nuts?

[Tx4obama]

51. The new update in the VIDEO says $150,000 bail - $50,000 CASH. n/t

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

37. Something doesn't add up ...

The police found a rifle and four handguns. The photo appears to show five rifles and seven handguns, but my eyes are old so the count may be off.

Is this some kind of stock photo from the archives, maybe from a gun show, having nothing at all to do with Mr Courtois and his fast Mustang?

[Tx4obama]

46. Photo includes the guns etc that they retrieved from his home. n/t

[yankeepants]

39. "An arsenal of guns WAS found . . ."

Grammar Police should pull over that journalist.

[al bupp]

43. No, they should pull over the alleged editor /nt

[yankeepants]

44. For impersonating an editor n/t

[dmallind]

72. ermm... arsenal is singular. The "of guns" part may be a tad redundant but that's all. nt

[yankeepants]

85. It is singular. You would not say "An arsenal were found." n/t

[truthisfreedom]

40. I went to see the batman movie this past weekend. Talk about weird.

All of the ushers were on high alert. They told us a new rule I'd never heard before... "do not use the emergency exits unless it is a real emergency". They were all whispering to each other. I think that theaters showing this movie are all on tenterhooks waiting for a copycat killer. Goddamned fucking fucker.

[Trunk Monkey]

41. Arsenal? Hell, that isn't even a good start. NT

[bucolic_frolic]

45. 112 MPH?

anyone going that speed lacks the intellect to be

below

the

radar!

These crackpots do seem to give off warning signals.

[Tx4obama]

47. The link in the OP was been updated with MORE PHOTOS and a Video. n/t

[Myrina]

49. Copycat

N/t

[Judi Lynn]

50. Since these mad dog killers are all insane, why don't we ever see one of them speeding

to put a brown paper sack with dog doo doo on someone's porch and set it on fire?

Why is that "insanity" thing so unimaginitive?

[Cleita]

52. What the hell is wrong with people!

Batman is a comic book, a cartoon, not to be taken seriously.

[PDJane]

53. Why give these men the fame that they are searching for?

If they dropped off the face of the earth into prison, into court, into prison if found guilty, it would make a dent in the death toll. It would find these things getting rarer, too.

Why pump up the gun culture this way? It's insanity.

[meanit]

57. It's also being reported

that police recovered a machine gun in his house. No word on whether it's illegal or not. If it's a legal class III, makes you wonder who backed him for it
How comforting

[Tx4obama]

58. NBCnews.com/Reuters and CBSnews.com have picked up the story, but that's about it.

Maine man arrested, says attended 'Batman' with gun
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48292930/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/#.UA4MrKAmI1I

"Batman link" in arrest of Maine man with guns?
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57478159-504083/batman-link-in-arrest-of-maine-man-with-guns/?amp&amp

[Tx4obama]

59. I've sent Breaking News TIP emails regarding the story to ...

Think Progress, Talking Point Memo, Politico, Huffington Post, Mediaite, TMZ

So far everyone has ignored me

[krispos42]

62. On his way to Derry, eh?

Sounds like the beginning of a Stephen King novel.

[David__77]

63. Cannibalism and well-planned shooting sprees.

There's something in the water a-la-Manson right now.

[demwing]

81. I once saw Spiderman arrested with drugs

It was sad

[tawadi]

84. 112 mph with flashers on

Yeah, that's smart.