Life imitates art with gruesome results

Art imitates life, but in Colorado early yesterday morning they had a gruesome example of life imitating art.

It was a midnight showing of the Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, when a gunman went berserk. He detonated a couple of gas canisters and began firing at the audience, killing at least 12 people and injuring over 50 others.

“We were watching a scene of the movie — it was a shootout scene, there were guns firing,” one witness said.