Moviegoer Stabbed After Complaining About Cell Phone

Suspects sought in meat thermometer attack
By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff
Posted Mar 10, 2010 3:44 AM CST
Moviegoer Stabbed After Complaining About Cell Phone
The Los Angeles County sheriff's office says it knows the weapon was a meat thermometer because the men left it behind.   (Shutter Stock)

A Los Angeles County moviegoer had a meat thermometer plunged into his neck after asking a woman to silence her cell phone. The woman and two men with her walked out of the screening of Shutter Island before the men returned and attacked the victim, according to cops. The victim was hospitalized but is expected to survive, KTLA reports. Two people who came to his aid were also injured by the suspects, who are still at large.
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