/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9909819
>>I'm surprised that there hasn't been a mass shooting at one of these things.
>dont jinx it, especially when there are already shooting threats towards some guests and gas attacks

I witnessed an explosive item be used at a con. It's not fun and the response from the surrounding con goers was sad. But I can't blame them, I reacted the same way.

Okay, I've posted this story a few times, but it's still one of my favorites to tell. There was a guy who smuggled a confetti canon into the New York comic con. I don't know what his exact goal was with it, but I can tell you what he did with this cannon and what he may have been trying to accomplish.

I was with my friend in the autograph area, downstairs at the Jacob Javitz center. We're standing by a trash can and admiring the large barrier that Sigourney Weaver and Sylvester Stallone received for their own autograph area.

A tall skinny dude with greasy hair in a ponytail and vampire fangs in his mouth stops by the trash can. He's holding a long cardboard tube, no labeling on it, so my friend and I thought it was holding a poster container.

Turned out to be an explosively loud confetti cannon. He literally just holds it out, aimed at the Stallone/Weaver barrier and pulls the cord.

This thing was loud, and the confetti only went 20-30 feat. Didn't get close to the barrier, let alone, over it. Greasy dude just stares at the empty tube with a tooth vampire grin and turns around, walking to the escalators that would lead him outside.

Everyone in that area was literally frozen in place, staring at him. They would've been sheep if he actually was packing to do harm. I'm not one to talk, my friend and I were frozen in place too.

As he's walking out, a zerg of legit muscle toned guards with ear pieces came out of a side entrance and swarm him. The guy almost touched the first step on the escalator, but once the guards reached him, his body flew with them off to the side behind closed doors.
Crazy.