Sunday, July 20, 2008

Forget Cheese, Behold the Power of Batman


Yesterday I went with my roommates to see Dark Knight. We learned just how powerful Batman is.

The movie came to the part where The Joker and Batman are squaring off on the streets of Gotham. Batman has just wiped out his "bat-cycle" into the wreckage of Joker's truck. One of Joker's henchmen rolls Batman over and then tries to take off his mask. The henchmen gets zapped and then the screen goes black.........

After a couple seconds the emergency lights come on over the emergency exits of the theater. Everyone in the theater chuckles at the timing of the moment. While waiting for the movie to start back up I take a quick walk out to the bathrooms and find out the power is out in the theater. After managing to use the bathroom with no lights I come out and run into my roommates. They inform me that the whole block has the power out. Meanwhile The theater staff have started handing out free passes to people in exchange for their tickets.

We waited for a bit to see if the power would comeback on and the movie restart. They started asking people to move outside to wait as it was a fire hazard to wait inside. We decide to go ahead and take the passes instead of waiting since we had a going away party later for a friend. As we left we noticed quite a few business without power.

We went back home to get ready to go to the party. Dorri and Andrea, my roommates went to the store real quick to pick up groceries. Two hours after we left the theater we drove past on our way to the party. Power was still out. As we went along we found the power outage was a bit more extensive than we thought at first. It stretched from Aurora Ave., across I-5 and all around the Northgate Mall. The weird thing was some businesses still had power while those around them didn't.

So don't try to unmask Batman in a movie, you'll get electrocuted and kill the power in many city blocks. :)