Golditch was hit in the head by a bullet or shrapnel, if I recall. Here is an experiment. Tap on your head. Now tap on your knee. The tap on the head sounds remarkably louder doesn't it? If that was a bullet strike, imagine how much louder. Also, the ringing could be due to injury rather than noise. I do not know the exact injuries, so that is a possibility I cannot rule out. Every single part of his testimony is perfectly consistent with being hit by a bullet/fragment.
Clean through and through flesh wound, they called it. Tapping skull resonates. Built your own straw-man with that. This is more like slashing quickly with a razor through flesh. You are better off claiming the ringing was a spike in blood pressure. There you go. Just forget the sound of firecracker going off behind his head, that he described as "loud", and a "black cat" firecracker. (nevermind the ringing in his ear afterwards).
Walton says her leg got hot. This could mean just about anything. If your leg falls asleep, it can feel hot as feeling comes back.
She actually said it got "really hot". So, her leg was asleep, and it caused her leg to "get really hot"?
If she hit or scraped her leg it could feel hot.
This is an equally insufficient explanation for "got really hot".
Or heat could be from a vent.
She is five seats in the middle section of the theater. Where is the vent? Why did it "get her leg really hot"?
The subjective sense of heat alone could be anything.
OK, but we're bypassing the argument of mass delusion and lying, and entertaining explanations for these testimonies.
If it was from an explosion and she was close enough to feel the heat, there should be other signs of this, injuries, and she should have bloody well heard the explosion.
Well, first, let's not forget this is a group of people with speech impediments. Many things could have been said which weren't, and were simply not reported. Many of these people did not realize how valuable their insight was that night before the gag order was put in place. Gage and Ostergaard both reported hearing it. Just because she didn't specifically say it in a rushed commentary doesn't mean she didn't. Personally, I find it bewildering that she couldn't add it up from the heat it caused her leg, but it would be rude for me to comment on people's capacity for independent thinking, especially with this crowd.
Also, the shrapnel was was apparently received by the person sitting next to her: Gage Hankins. Your argument is horribly horribly weak as far as explaining the source of this report of "my leg got really hot".
I mean, honestly, what is your sincerest opinion of that? It quickly becomes suspect that you are simply being difficult in the promotion of an agenda of protecting your predisposition.
Do you have more information? Do these other signs exist? If not, other explanations are more likely.
Hahahaha. Yes, let's hear those other explanations, because they are so much more likely than the explosives reported by these people...
Fedelli heard pops, not booms or explosions, and saw gas and/or smoke.
I believe she was sitting near the top, and what was pops to her, was described as a boom by ostergaard, and a "loud bang" by Hankins.
The pops fit gunfire next door, which we already know happened.
Can you elaborate. Be generous with your explanation to my argument. Because I would love to hear where you think these 3 specifically mentioned pops came from. "2 pops and a big cloud of smoke, then another pop, and more smoke"
So we only have to explain his smoke testimony.
It's a female, ftr, but yes, the smoke has already been attempted within the cover up with two separate explanations: Through the bullet holes: yes, a "witness" actually said smoke was coming through the bullet holes. This same witness uploaded the first cell phone video, and was said to have blocked people from going into the lobby. Once the smoke through bullet holes was seen as ridiculous given the amount of smoke, and the location of the smoke, the explanation was then pitched as it was coming through the vents.
So, to put it simply, the problem we have is:
If it came through the bullet holes, why does Fedelli say no one knew there was a shooting?
If it came through the vents, why does Fedelli (and others) associate the smoke with the sounds of explosives?
"2 pops and a
big cloud of smoke, then another pop,
and more smoke... people were saying it could have been fireworks... no one knew there was a shooting going on in theater 9" - Is theater 9 pressurized to be shooting smoke out in "big clouds" through bullet holes?
"Glasses girl" said gas bomb, which I assume means she saw smoke? Again this could be from vents.
Let's not build straw men here... Let's not suffer from having an
agenda. She said "they set gas bombs as they were leaving".
That leaves Ostergaard, who says he saw an explosion, though describes the sound as like firecrackers.
Let's actually take the time to listen to those interviews, ok? This is more exemplary of an earlier problem you tried to bring up. He said he heard a "boom". And yes, he later described thinking it was a firecracker.
The sound again is likely gunfire next door.
Well that would be 100 times the magnitude of reporting one distinct boom, wouldn't it, given the amount of rounds fired? Again, why is Fedelli saying everyone in 8 didn't know there was a shooting. Why is she only reporting 3 pops? I mean, I'm making a Robert DeNiro face right now.
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Then a flash and smoke in the stairwell. Smoke could be from vents. Flash could be a lot of things, from the movie, spark from bullet strike, breaking light bulb.
So the flash is from bullet ricochet? "All 11 of us saw a "boom and a flash"". Bouncing bullets... That's one of those things, I will let you settle on, because it makes your argument look silly. Valid, but horribly weak. Breaking light bulb would have been noticed, don't you think? Kinda stretching it there... Maybe you should start doing some soul searching.
Notice, I have assumed that the witness are accurately reporting what they witnessed, that their memory is not faulty, and that the quotes are not out of context. Almost all of it can be easily and better explained without explosives of any kind in theater 8.
You're simply being insincere. I commend you for being the first in 11 pages to step up to the plate, that's why I suspect you're legit, but if you took a few hours to stop and process, you would know that. I don't expect you to do so in front of me, but I know, one day, this will have affected you.
You have at best one witness from the entire theater who saw something explosive-like, but describes a decidedly unexplosive sound.
I assume you mean Ostergaard, and a "boom" is not an unexplosive sound. Go ahead, actually try watching the interviews I linked. We also don't have anything, because, well, the inconvenience of a gag order. Go firgure right?
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If almost everyone in the theater saw or heard an explosion, then you would have something. Without the testimony of the rest of the people in that theater, I provisionally assume that these isolated statements are either misinterpreted or are outliers specifically selected because they are the absolute best for making the case for conspiracy, which turns out to be not very good.
Well there are actually others who reported the explosives, and in fact, if you would watch the interviews, you'd see the news reporter actually say the following: "I spoke with another man who said some kind of firecrackers went off, and that was the source of the smoke" Milano replies, "We had
plenty of people telling us someone was throwing pepper bombs"
I will end by pointing out I am not an expert in any of this, and have researched this "theory" only a little. I welcome any corrections.
And, you gave it a nice shot. There is a very predictable stretched rebuttal you can make to all this, or you can simply concede and not waste any of my time having to re-rebut you, since you could simply draw from the vast resources of a cover-up that has had a year to process and eventually "feel" correct. However, I am now going to minimize my participation. The thread is what it is, at this point, I leave it to others.