Downtown Theater To Shoot Developer in Other Leg
FairCityNews.com | May 14, 2009 | Comments 0
Springfield—Six months after it opened, a legal storm is brewing over downtown Springfield‘s 14-screen movie theater.
Hollywood Theaters Inc., which operates Hollywood Theaters College Station Stadium 14, is suing its landlord, alleging it’s owed nearly $900,000 by College Station LLC and is being overcharged for monthly rent and currently plans to shoot local developer Scott Tilman, who runs College Station LLC, in the “other” leg.
Ron Bodinson, a Kansas City lawyer representing the Delaware-based Hollywood said his client has no interest in leaving the area, just correcting an error. “The landlord, we feel, has defaulted,” he said. “I guess we could have terminated the lease. We’re choosing instead to reaffirm the lease and adjust the location of one bullet from our pistol into the lower appendage of the developer.”
“We were hopeful that it would be resolved short of shooting anyone in the leg,” Aaron Lyons, College Station’s lawyer said.
Before filing suit, Hollywood sent several letters to College Station, asking for changes to be made, and offering a choice over which appendage be shot if the landlord did not pay up. The limb negotiations have apparently ceased as the “other leg” has been identified as the target.
Tilman, victim of a unsolved gunshot wound to the leg from a mysterious person a few years ago, plans to sell his story to a publisher for a pretty penny, adapt the manuscript into a movie and have it screened at the Hollywood 14 by the time he finishes rehab on the leg. He asks, “Could it be a smaller bullet this time? A .22 or BB gun would be a great statement, and would really, really teach me a lesson.”
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