The San Diego Comic-Con (Comic Convention) International has grown into the largest annual pop-culture gathering in the USA. Once a year nerds emerge from their parents basements, feel the sun on their pasty white skin, rely on their mobile internet connections and head to San Diego to be with their own. The four day conference will see over 125,000 people attend, a number which represents the capacity limit of the covention’s venue.
One feature of Con life are panels: people gather in a room to listen to/question the producers of their favourite comic/movie/tv show/book etc.
One bane of Con life are people who attend the panel before the one they really want to go to in order to hold on to their seat for the next panel. This can mean that people who really want to attend a panel are unable to get in because the room is full of people who have no interest in the current panel, but are only waiting for the next one. These squatters will not necessarily just sit quietly and not disrupt the panel they have no interest in either.
You might think that the problem would be solved by emptying each room after each panel. But this is the USA and that would probably deny someone their constitutional right to behave like an inconsiderate jerk.
Anyway, that’s a longish introduction to this news story about an altercation that started after two people had a disagreement about whether someone should leave their seat after a panel was over.
Nerds are not known for their social interaction skills.
And in best 1950s horror comic tradition it involved an injury to someone’s eye.
Police Report On Comic-Con Stabbing
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