Man Stabs Himself So He Doesn't Have To Work At Blockbuster

Mr. Hole the Magnificent · External Since: Aug 19, 2009 Posts: 20

An Edgewater man has admitted to stabbing himself in the leg Monday
night because he didn't want to go to work.

Aaron Seibers, 29, reported that he was stabbed on his way to work, a
Blockbuster Video Store on Sheridan Boulevard.

He claimed that three skinheads or Hispanic males dressed in black
tried to rob him and stabbed him in the lower left leg.

After reporting the stabbing at his job, he was taken to Saint
Anthony's Hospital.

The Denver Channel reports:

Investigators reviewed surveillance video taken at a nearby business
that failed to show an attack where Siebers claimed it had happened.

The Denver Post reports that after the man was released from the
hospital, detectives confronted him with evidence that conflicted with
his changing stories about the attack.

At that point, Siebers confessed and told them he stabbed himself
because he didn't want to go to work, said the police spokesman.

Siebers had taken a bus from Denver to the Blockbuster store in
Edgewater. The surveillance video from the Target store showed him
walking from the bus stop to the store without any indication he was
suffering from a deep stab wound.

Seibers was arrested and charged with false reporting and obstructing
a police officer.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/03/aaron-seibers-stabs-himse_n_344142.html

moviePig · External Since: Aug 08, 2005 Posts: 1701

On Nov 3, 7:51 pm, "Mr. Hole the Magnificent"
<classic.mr.h... DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:
> An Edgewater man has admitted to stabbing himself in the leg Monday
> night because he didn't want to go to work.
>
> Aaron Seibers, 29, reported that he was stabbed on his way to work, a
> Blockbuster Video Store on Sheridan Boulevard.
>
> He claimed that three skinheads or Hispanic males dressed in black
> tried to rob him and stabbed him in the lower left leg.
>
> After reporting the stabbing at his job, he was taken to Saint
> Anthony's Hospital.
>
> The Denver Channel reports:
>
> Investigators reviewed surveillance video taken at a nearby business
> that failed to show an attack where Siebers claimed it had happened.
>
> The Denver Post reports that after the man was released from the
> hospital, detectives confronted him with evidence that conflicted with
> his changing stories about the attack.
>
> At that point, Siebers confessed and told them he stabbed himself
> because he didn't want to go to work, said the police spokesman.
>
> Siebers had taken a bus from Denver to the Blockbuster store in
> Edgewater. The surveillance video from the Target store showed him
> walking from the bus stop to the store without any indication he was
> suffering from a deep stab wound.
>
> Seibers was arrested and charged with false reporting and obstructing
> a police officer.
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/03/aaron-seibers-stabs-himse_n_...

"Yes ma'am, TITANIC sure was the *best* movie ever."

"No sir. I agree that the guns in E.T. were way over the line."

(I'm surprised he didn't cut his foot clean off...)

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calvin · External Since: Feb 07, 2009 Posts: 91

On Nov 3, 11:30 pm, moviePig <pwall....TakeThisOut@moviepig.com> wrote:
> On Nov 3, 7:51 pm, "Mr. Hole the Magnificent"
> <classic.mr.h....TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
> > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/03/aaron-seibers-stabs-himse_n_....
>
> "Yes ma'am, TITANIC sure was the *best* movie ever."
>
> "No sir. I agree that the guns in E.T. were way over the line."
>
> (I'm surprised he didn't cut his foot clean off...)

The guy wanted to get out of work, period. Blockbuster
had nothing to do with it. My local Blockbuster has
always looked like a fine place to work, because it has
a good manager. And no one is expected to agree with
customers about movies there.

(As for 'Titanic', it had some bad flaws, but still was a
great movie, loved by billions around the world, not just
by American teeny-DiCaprio-boppers, as the myth has it.)

moviePig · External Since: Aug 08, 2005 Posts: 1701

On Nov 4, 1:26 pm, calvin <cri....RemoveThis@windstream.net> wrote:
> On Nov 3, 11:30 pm, moviePig <pwall....RemoveThis@moviepig.com> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 3, 7:51 pm, "Mr. Hole the Magnificent"
> > <classic.mr.h....RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/03/aaron-seibers-stabs-himse_n_....
>
> > "Yes ma'am, TITANIC sure was the *best* movie ever."
>
> > "No sir. I agree that the guns in E.T. were way over the line."
>
> > (I'm surprised he didn't cut his foot clean off...)
>
> The guy wanted to get out of work, period. Blockbuster
> had nothing to do with it. My local Blockbuster has
> always looked like a fine place to work, because it has
> a good manager. And no one is expected to agree with
> customers about movies there.
>
> (As for 'Titanic', it had some bad flaws, but still was a
> great movie, loved by billions around the world, not just
> by American teeny-DiCaprio-boppers, as the myth has it.)

My dislike of Blockbuster is residue from the days when they dominated
the rental market, yet refused to carry 'NC-17' titles.

(TITANIC can be entered only in the 'Great Movie' contests that
include, say, GONE WITH THE WIND or THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH...
i.e., contests that, say, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA could also enter, but
wouldn't...)

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TBerk · External Since: May 08, 2007 Posts: 67

On Nov 4, 10:54 am, moviePig <pwall....DeleteThis@moviepig.com> wrote:
> On Nov 4, 1:26 pm, calvin <cri....DeleteThis@windstream.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Nov 3, 11:30 pm, moviePig <pwall....DeleteThis@moviepig.com> wrote:
>
> > > On Nov 3, 7:51 pm, "Mr. Hole the Magnificent"
> > > <classic.mr.h....DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/03/aaron-seibers-stabs-himse_n_...
>
> > > "Yes ma'am, TITANIC sure was the *best* movie ever."
>
> > > "No sir. I agree that the guns in E.T. were way over the line."
>
> > > (I'm surprised he didn't cut his foot clean off...)
>
> > The guy wanted to get out of work, period. Blockbuster
> > had nothing to do with it. My local Blockbuster has
> > always looked like a fine place to work, because it has
> > a good manager. And no one is expected to agree with
> > customers about movies there.
>
> > (As for 'Titanic', it had some bad flaws, but still was a
> > great movie, loved by billions around the world, not just
> > by American teeny-DiCaprio-boppers, as the myth has it.)
>
> My dislike of Blockbuster is residue from the days when they dominated
> the rental market, yet refused to carry 'NC-17' titles.
>
> (TITANIC can be entered only in the 'Great Movie' contests that
> include, say, GONE WITH THE WIND or THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH...
> i.e., contests that, say, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA could also enter, but
> wouldn't...)
>
> --

Worse even still was when the began to carry reedited films or not at
all; even more so when film makers began to get gun-shy from fear
they'll not make the cut with the folks at BB.

berk

calvin · External Since: Feb 07, 2009 Posts: 91

On Nov 4, 1:54 pm, moviePig <pwall... RemoveThis @moviepig.com> wrote:
> On Nov 4, 1:26 pm, calvin <cri... RemoveThis @windstream.net> wrote:
> > On Nov 3, 11:30 pm, moviePig <pwall... RemoveThis @moviepig.com> wrote:
>
> > > On Nov 3, 7:51 pm, "Mr. Hole the Magnificent"
> > > <classic.mr.h... RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/03/aaron-seibers-stabs-himse_n_...
>
> > > "Yes ma'am, TITANIC sure was the *best* movie ever."
>
> > > "No sir. I agree that the guns in E.T. were way over the line."
>
> > > (I'm surprised he didn't cut his foot clean off...)
>
> > The guy wanted to get out of work, period. Blockbuster
> > had nothing to do with it. My local Blockbuster has
> > always looked like a fine place to work, because it has
> > a good manager. And no one is expected to agree with
> > customers about movies there.
>
> > (As for 'Titanic', it had some bad flaws, but still was a
> > great movie, loved by billions around the world, not just
> > by American teeny-DiCaprio-boppers, as the myth has it.)
>
> My dislike of Blockbuster is residue from the days when they dominated
> the rental market, yet refused to carry 'NC-17' titles.

Since I never heard of that, I don't know when those days were.

> (TITANIC can be entered only in the 'Great Movie' contests that
> include, say, GONE WITH THE WIND or THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH...
> i.e., contests that, say, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA could also enter, but
> wouldn't...)

'Great' can cover a lot of ground. Of the four named above,
I wouldn't include the DeMille one among the great except
for the documentary scenes of setting up the circus, which
he narrated.

steve · External Since: Dec 09, 2004 Posts: 1267

On 3-Nov-2009, "Mr. Hole the Magnificent" <classic.mr.hole.TakeThisOut@gmail.com>
wrote:

> He claimed that three skinheads or Hispanic males dressed in black
> tried to rob him and stabbed him in the lower left leg.

That was the first clue.

"Officer...he held a knife to my lower leg, and..."

"Uh huh. Slow down. [typing] 'perp held knife to lower leg' ... What?
Wait a minute..."
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nick · External Since: Apr 21, 2007 Posts: 150

On Nov 4, 1:26 pm, calvin <cri....TakeThisOut@windstream.net> wrote:
> On Nov 3, 11:30 pm, moviePig <pwall....TakeThisOut@moviepig.com> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 3, 7:51 pm, "Mr. Hole the Magnificent"
> > <classic.mr.h....TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/03/aaron-seibers-stabs-himse_n_....
>
> > "Yes ma'am, TITANIC sure was the *best* movie ever."
>
> > "No sir. I agree that the guns in E.T. were way over the line."
>
> > (I'm surprised he didn't cut his foot clean off...)
>
> The guy wanted to get out of work, period.

It reminds me of the short story by Bentley Little, where some guy
gets carjacked by a fat redneck psychopath but after awhile he stops
worrying about his situation because being carjacked by a fat redneck
psychopath at least gets him out of work for the day.

nick · External Since: Apr 21, 2007 Posts: 150

On Nov 4, 5:10 pm, "The Giant Brain" <gi....TakeThisOut@brain.invalid> wrote:
> "TBerk" <bayareab....TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> news:0cb1f7cf-6c9f-434c-8ec3-cb4483116844@j9g2000prh.googlegroups.com...>Worse even still was when the began to carry reedited films or not at
>
all; even more so when film makers began to get gun-shy from fear
> they'll not make the cut with the folks at BB.
>
> That was the worst thing they ever did, IMO.
> Their sanitized version of "Deliverance" came close to making no sense at all.
> Prides goes before a fall and all that...

When did Blockbuster release a "sanitized" version of Deliverance?
Blockbuster has a lot of faults--I've stopped going--but the whole
censorship of movies thing is some leftover complaint from the
1990s.

calvin · External Since: Feb 07, 2009 Posts: 91

On Nov 4, 5:23 pm, nick <nickmacpherso....DeleteThis@AOL.com> wrote:
> On Nov 4, 5:10 pm, "The Giant Brain" <gi....DeleteThis@brain.invalid> wrote:> "TBerk" <bayareab....DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> >news:0cb1f7cf-6c9f-434c-8ec3-cb4483116844@j9g2000prh.googlegroups.com...>Worseeven still was when the began to carry reedited films or not at
>
> all; even more so when film makers began to get gun-shy from fear
>
> > they'll not make the cut with the folks at BB.
>
> > That was the worst thing they ever did, IMO.
> > Their sanitized version of "Deliverance" came close to making no sense at all.
> > Prides goes before a fall and all that...
>
> When did Blockbuster release a "sanitized" version of Deliverance?
> Blockbuster has a lot of faults--I've stopped going--but the whole
> censorship of movies thing is some leftover complaint from the
> 1990s.

Whatever BB did must have been in the 90s. I was renting
VHS tapes from Turtles back then. But the DVDs that I've
been renting from BB all through this decade, before switching to
Netflix, certainly have not been censored.

It appears that BB is now suffering from some sort of customer
hangover from the 90s, if what is being said in this thread is
true. But it may not be true; eg: liberals have been unfairly on
Wal-Mart's case for a long time, because Wal-Mart has not
been unionized. One must beware believing liberals' complaints
about businesses.

william · External Since: Apr 16, 2009 Posts: 94

On Nov 4, 5:39 pm, calvin <cri....TakeThisOut@windstream.net> wrote:

One must beware believing liberals' complaints
> about businesses.

But not anyone else's? Only liberals have hidden agendas, I guess.

William
www.williamahearn.com

nick · External Since: Apr 21, 2007 Posts: 150

On Nov 4, 6:07 pm, "steve" <st....DeleteThis@steve.com> wrote:
> On 4-Nov-2009, william <wlahe....DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > One must beware believing liberals' complaints
> > > about businesses.
>
> > But not anyone else's? Only liberals have hidden agendas, I guess.
>
> It's no hidden agenda, William. It's a hostility towards free markets, and
> it's in plain view.
>
Netflix kicked Blockbuster's ass in the marketplace. People who don't
like Blockbuster generally belong to Netflix or maybe now they're
using Redbox or some other kiosk vendor, so where is the hostility
towards free markets? Blockbuster was too expensive and they didn't
adjust to the times. People went elsewhere. Capitalism worked.

calvin · External Since: Feb 07, 2009 Posts: 91

On Nov 4, 7:04 pm, "The Giant Brain" <gi....DeleteThis@brain.invalid> wrote:
> ... Maybe you'd like to explain why you think any business
> complaint by a liberal is somehow invalid?

Not invalid, just suspect. I was at Wal-Mart today, and
as always before, I saw nothing but happy campers
among the (non-unionized) employees.

If they were unionized, then they sure would be worried
about the Obama administration's efforts to make
union ballots non-secret. What a joke; no secret
ballot here in the USA. No secret ballot in institutions
famous for intimidation, even outright thuggery, against
those who don't toe the union line.

moviePig · External Since: Aug 08, 2005 Posts: 1701

On Nov 4, 6:07 pm, "steve" <st....TakeThisOut@steve.com> wrote:
> On 4-Nov-2009, william <wlahe....TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > One must beware believing liberals' complaints
> > > about businesses.
>
> > But not anyone else's? Only liberals have hidden agendas, I guess.
>
> It's no hidden agenda, William. It's a hostility towards free markets, and
> it's in plain view.

Since I raised the issue here of BB's censorship: Yes, it was way
back when (afaik)... but it was sufficiently repugnant that the taint
lingers in memory. Yes, BB had every legal right to do it... as well
as every social responsibility not to. And, yes, if a slightly less
free market means I can drive a stake through the heart of mass
censorship, then pass me the hammer...

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The Giant Brain · External Since: Aug 19, 2009 Posts: 25

"TBerk" <bayareaberk DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:0cb1f7cf-6c9f-434c-8ec3-cb4483116844@j9g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
>Worse even still was when the began to carry reedited films or not at
all; even more so when film makers began to get gun-shy from fear
they'll not make the cut with the folks at BB.

That was the worst thing they ever did, IMO.
Their sanitized version of "Deliverance" came close to making no sense at all.
Prides goes before a fall and all that...

william · External Since: Apr 16, 2009 Posts: 94

On Nov 4, 6:07 pm, "steve" <st....TakeThisOut@steve.com> wrote:
>
> It's no hidden agenda, William. It's a hostility towards free markets, and
> it's in plain view.
>
So according to your yahoo fringe politics anyone who complains about
any store (read participator in the "free" markets) is a latent
Marxist ready to take your guns, burn your Bibles and make the Girl
Scouts handmaidens to the abortionists. Once again you're jimmying a
conversation to spout more of your silly politics. All politics is
silly as far as I'm concerned and nowhere is that more apparent is
when someone tries to turn a complaint against Block Buster into a
soapbox for something entirely different. It's sooooooo transparent as
to be funny. Trust me, Steve. I'm laughing on the inside.

William
www.williamahearn.com

The Giant Brain · External Since: Aug 19, 2009 Posts: 25

"calvin" <crice5.DeleteThis@windstream.net> wrote in message
news:494a3800-6fb3-4098-a0f1-7788e0be1ead@g7g2000vbi.googlegroups.com...
On Nov 4, 5:23 pm, nick <nickmacpherso....DeleteThis@AOL.com> wrote:
> On Nov 4, 5:10 pm, "The Giant Brain" <gi....DeleteThis@brain.invalid> wrote:> "TBerk"
> <bayareab....DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> >news:0cb1f7cf-6c9f-434c-8ec3-cb4483116844@j9g2000prh.googlegroups.com...>Worseeven
> >still was when the began to carry reedited films or not at
>
> all; even more so when film makers began to get gun-shy from fear
>
> > they'll not make the cut with the folks at BB.
>
> > That was the worst thing they ever did, IMO.
> > Their sanitized version of "Deliverance" came close to making no sense at
> > all.
> > Prides goes before a fall and all that...
>
> When did Blockbuster release a "sanitized" version of Deliverance?
> Blockbuster has a lot of faults--I've stopped going--but the whole
> censorship of movies thing is some leftover complaint from the
> 1990s.

Whatever BB did must have been in the 90s. I was renting
VHS tapes from Turtles back then. But the DVDs that I've
been renting from BB all through this decade, before switching to
Netflix, certainly have not been censored.

It appears that BB is now suffering from some sort of customer
hangover from the 90s, if what is being said in this thread is
true. But it may not be true; eg: liberals have been unfairly on
Wal-Mart's case for a long time, because Wal-Mart has not
been unionized. One must beware believing liberals' complaints
about businesses.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
The last time I patronized BB WAS back in the 90s when movies still were on VHS.
The VHS version of "Deliverance" I rented from them was sanitized down to a "G"
rating (for all I could tell, Ned Beatty and the hillbilly played spin the
bottle!).
That's when I stopped renting movies from them, so I have no idea what they are
doing now (nor do I care since Netflix gets 100% of my rental business)
Maybe you'd like to explain why you think any business complaint by a liberal is
somehow invalid?

steve · External Since: Dec 09, 2004 Posts: 1267

On 4-Nov-2009, william <wlahearn.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:

> One must beware believing liberals' complaints
> > about businesses.
>
> But not anyone else's? Only liberals have hidden agendas, I guess.

It's no hidden agenda, William. It's a hostility towards free markets, and
it's in plain view.

steve
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David Oberman · External Since: Jan 08, 2009 Posts: 117

nick <nickmacpherson05.TakeThisOut@AOL.com> wrote:

>Speaking of porn . . . the first Blockbuster I ever went into, I was
>walking in circles inside the store trying to find the porn section.

Nick!! Your mind is in the cinema gutter!!

>That was always my main objection to Blockbuster--those hideous
>sterile buildings with an atmosphere that made you want to get in and
>out as quickly as possible.

My favorite video outlet for shopping around -- not a rental outlet,
btw -- was DVD Planet on Beach Boulevard. Man, they had everything,
all perfectly arranged on the shelves, category by category. And every
category under the sun: TV, European, Japanese, Hollywood Golden Age
Studio, Special Interest (you know, the discs most people aren't
interested in), Sports, Teleplays, everything. Oh, & xxxx.

____
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reaffirm my belief that it is perfectly fine as long as it is inaudible.

-- Charles Rosen, "The Classical Style"

calvin · External Since: Feb 07, 2009 Posts: 91

On Nov 5, 7:20 am, "The Giant Brain" <gi... RemoveThis @brain.invalid> wrote:
> "calvin" <cri... RemoveThis @windstream.net> wrote in message
> > If they were unionized, then they sure would be worried
> > about the Obama administration's efforts to make
> > union ballots non-secret. What a joke; no secret
> > ballot here in the USA. No secret ballot in institutions
> > famous for intimidation, even outright thuggery, against
> > those who don't toe the union line.

> There, there Cal.
> Drink your milk, put on your tinfoil hat and don't worry about the big bad
> liberals.

So, you think denial of secret ballots in union elections,
and other things on which they vote, is okay?

You think extreme condescension toward someone who
objects to non-secret ballots is a valid argument?