Comic Con 2010 – “Eye stabbing” incident

Thursday, July 29th, 2010
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Last Saturday at Comic Con, I was waiting in line with Pat the NES Punk. We were hoping to get into the Marvel panel to to learn more about the upcoming Thor and Captain America movies. The line came to a halt due to “health reasons” and then rumor spread through the line that someone had been “stabbed in the eye” over a seating argument. We really didn’t know what happened.

Afterwards, I was able to read on news sources that the victim was “scratched near the eye” and judging from the pictures I’ve seen, the man being arrested was the one wearing a Harry Potter shirt and not the other way around. Whatever the case, it was serious enough to delay the following panels. We didn’t get in. So here’s the fly-on-the moment, hot on the spot reaction from both me and Pat who recorded, edited and posted this video.

Bottom line: Comic Con has a serious crowd issue and needs to solve it for next year. I believe the Comics and Movies should be separated into two conventions for one thing, and that they should sell individual tickets for each panel, so everyone can plan their day without rushing into lines. Also, if you’re a fan coming to Comic Con, and you’re going to hurt somebody, just don’t come!

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What's up with the guy mocking Pat in the background? xD lol

I still want to go to Comic-Con someday, I just hope they solve the crowd and eye-stabbing issues :P

There's a retarded garden gnome mocking Pat.

Dis anyone see the dude in the back?
Mocking pat

"The room has reached full capacity"

AAAASSSSSSSS!!

Fuck Comic-con! Yeah James,Yeah!! Long Live the Nerd..and the Punk!!

comic con just seems like a big fucking rip off. All I can think of is cartman from the season 5 CARTMANLAND episode, "all the lines lines lines!"

This special report it's really great !! Been stab in the eye it most hurt like hell. + It most be something really hard to do >//<

I was in hall H for green lantern and harry potter, but I could not stay till cap america and thor because I would've been waiting in that room for 6 hours. I really just wanted to see Green Lantern, but my friends went to stand in line at 2:30 am and I met up with them at like 6:00 am, it's retarded how much time you have to dedicate to lines at comic con, but some how its still fun to be there

i'd never heard of pat before this video and i haven't since, save for his comment here. but i think people should lay off of him for "not being funny." i'm pretty sure he was trying to use a little humor just to stop himself from screaming in sheer rage and frustration. one of those "if i weren't laughing my ass off, i'd be crying my eyes out" kind of things. you'd all think i was a fucking lunatic if you heard my god-awful jokes that i've made when trying not to bawl, shriek, or throttle someone. and i bet we've all been there, too. stupid humor, or even "humor," helps sometimes. be nice.

well apparently there are more stupid people out there than I thought. I don't think it is very wise to stab someone for an idiotic reason such as a seat. patience is key. The stabber may end up on TheArchfiend's hit list if he's not careful.

The guy behind Pat is a douche lol

I read something once that said the average human being will spend ONE-THIRD of their entire LIFE waiting in line. I get the feeling that James and Pat spent one-third of their lives in lines at Comic Con 2010.

So hilarious, when you think about how fast will people bring up in mind this event, it would be like:
- How was the logo of Comic Con look like in the 2010?
- (wait, wasn't it about stabbing someone in the...) EYE!.
Kids always get too serious things, hah.

Thats just fricking crazy. I would turn green, grow extremely large muscles and go berzerk in my pink shorts if it happened to me. Or at least stab someone in the eye.

xD All the eye jokes. "It's like everyone's Grandma died, at the same time... coincedentally, they were stabbed in the eye."

Love the "take my seat, just don't stab me" signs.

all those super heros were there and no one when to try and stop the guy

Well hey he might at least get thrown in jail so one less body next year!

I see the whole situation very symbolic.

What are the odds that the comi-con logo is an eye and someone got stabbed right in the eye at comi-con?

Something to think about it.

wow dude, you really don't understand how comic con works. if you even intend to get into hall H you have get in that line friggin early, like around 7 or 8am. if you intend to see the later shit, get in the line at 8:30am. there is a system to how to survive comic com and see all the shit you are interested in. by the i was in hall H during the stabbing and here is what i saw: body bag on a gurney, and a burly black guy in cuffs.

Haha.

"Don't stabb me Bro! Too soon?"

So fucking funny. :D

lol at the guy behind NES punk

Yeah, they really need to just empty out the rooms before letting people into the next panel. It's pretty lame.

@The Shamster

Cool story bro.

I do hope that guy is ok.

I understand fully what it feels like to have an injury that close to the eye.

I had the top of my eye-lid split open by accident during sparring at kick-boxing (I was kicked in the face and their toe-nail sliced the skin open)...you could see my eyeball through the split....I was lucky it narrowly missed my eye, otherwise I could have lost my eyeball.

I needed that special glue that seals up facial injuries at the doctors.

The one who did it to me was completly appologetic...I told them it doesnt matter and that it would teach me a lesson not to drop my guard.

But in the incident you spoke of...that jerk who tried to stab the other guy deserves everything comming to him.

I don't like the NES Punk. He gives off a jackass vibe.

wow pat you arent punk...or funny.

NES PUNX fer life-

LOL @ the new Comic-Con logo....how ironic. Other than that way to much standing in line.

I was in Hall H when it happened. Just all the people basically gathered around to watch until the moderators told us all to go back to our seats. "Nothing to see here." No pun intended.

Wow. How sad isn't this? Stap someone in the eye? Dude, that is sad, disturbing and stupid at the same time. I hope he's ok. Regardless. Great video as always, James.

This would piss me off to no end enough to stab the managers of Comic-Con in the eye. Here's the thing, if you know the capacity of a room and you know that you cannot exceed that capacity then why in the Blue Fuck of Narnia would you allow an amount of people that would exceed that capacity to wait in line for hours? What in hell were they thinking? Seriously? That's stupid. You HAVE this information. Turn styles today have counters. Actually that's the point of the turn style originally. Okay.. okay (Joe Pesci style) you would still have to find a way to stop line cutters. That could be an issue, but that doesn't stop a person from trying. I would be pissed.

This video as a whole: 6/10

James' comment at the end "fuck Comic-Con": 10/10

I have never been to Comic-Con. After watching these videos I never want to go. One less person to back up the lines.

That doesn't excuse the fact that Pat the NES Punk was annoying as hell.

@marigold23

agree with you. You can tell they were not in character.

i don't think this has anything to do with the guys trying to be funny. i think they were just comrades-in-misery, cutting their troubles in half by bitching about them with a buddy- and with a very sympathetic at-home audience, even if we weren't watching yet. anyway, i bet mike's glad he WASN'T there for all that shit.!

Hahaha look at the fat guy behind Pat

Woohoo you posted it! Crazy stuff, hope everything turned out okay. I like how you guys play off eachother.

Nice work guys!

I personally love James final line in this video.

As for the incident....what a shameful, and stupid act.

Now that is something rather amusing...
The Angry H.P Fan...
Hahahaha... NOw i feel i can continue my life.

Have a fucking limited ticket system for each panel, you dumb fucks!

Didn't cast his patronus fast enough?

It was right after the Resident Evil panel.

I was in there when the dude was stabbed in the eye. It started out with EVERYONE in the seats near the bathrooms were standing up taking pictures, and nobody knew what was going on. Eventually it spread around that someone was attacked. At first we though someone just got decked but there was blood and stuff on the ground, then it was passed around that someone got stabbed. We weren't sure where, but we kind of figured it was in the eye... somehow. Then the moderator for Hall H came out and said something like "We have it under control there's nothing to see, etc etc." And they replayed the 3D Trailer Park. You couldn't leave if you wanted to. It was freaky.

OMG someone got stabbed in th.... wtf, is Pat wearing make up?

I don't think Pat is that funny... Fun video aside from that though james!

Sooo... you and pate ever ganna do a crossover reveiw.

Bwahahaha. The eye stab at the end got me laughing.

Hey, I see someone cosplayed as the Scout from Team Fortress 2!

BONK!

The EYE-rony is that the next 2 Harry Potter movies are being released in 3D. What a tragedy for that fan.

Oh, shit! It's zombie Heath Ledger and this time he's pissed!