A man who was attacked at an AMC movie theater over reserved seats in Florida this month has spoken up about the incident. “I couldn’t even get defensive shot in,” said the 63-year-old man, who wished to remain anonymous, to NBC Miami. “It happened so fast, he basically sucker-punched me is what he did.”
He said that he and his wife had purchased VIP tickets online to see Insidious: The Red Door at the AMC Pompano Theater in Florida for July 10. The ticket deal had included pre-show seat selection, which he and his wife did.
However, when the man and his wife got to the theater, someone was sitting in their seats. When he politely asked them to move, the person did not, so he and his wife started looking for other seats.
“As I’m walking away, he said ‘go run to your wife, little boy,” the man said. “I turned around and I said, ‘You know I’m not the one who’s being a little boy, you took my seats and you didn’t apologize or you didn’t say thank you and I let you keep them.’”
The physical fight then started, and afterwards the man had to be taken to the hospital for stitches.
A movie theater dispute also happened last month in New Mexico, where a 19-year-old shot and killed a man in a dispute over reserved seats.
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