The Early Feburary Car Crash

On Friday, Feburary 2, a car ran into the Cinearts building at Santana Row. Well his car didnt actually hit the building but he was drunk and hit a lot of other things. He was in the parking lot between the theatre and Pasta Pomodoro. He ran over a curb and through a hedge and then made a 45 degree turn, ran up on the sidewalk, hit a stop sign and flug it off to the side; hit a garbage can that landed on his hood; made some people dodge out of his path for dear life, and then made his way towards the theatre. He must have breaked right before the theatre because the fame damage is very minor but when he stopped, the garbage can on his hood was thrown into one of the doors. The whole glass pane crumbled into pieces into the lobby. The car then idled for a while on the patio, the passenger ran out of the car and then got back inside. After a few minutes, the drunk driver backed up, and continued to drive out on to Olsen, which was his original attempt. Security was able to stop the guy, get the keys out of the ignition, and held him until the police came. It was an exciting night, my staff were all witnesses to the accident so they were telling security and the cops what happend. I became the crime scene photographer because security didn't have their camera. These pictures are my crime scene photos but only ones to show what damaged happened to the theater.

All the pretty glass we swept up (I made this picture better, and altered the hue a bit...)



Outside the theatre








Inside the theatre






P.S. I found a piece of glass a week later. It was also cool looking at the damage just the glass had done to the theatre. On one the the beams around the doors, there is a cut from flying glass. From that, I know that the glass was flying at a high velocity. Luckly, no one was close to the doors when it happened or that a movie didn't break at that same time.