And then there are incidents like these that make me mindful of attending Comic Con down in San Diego.
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I have said it before in years past when I attended Comic Con for myself, but it is beginning to seem that some San Diego residents are starting to get more and more annoyed with the Comic Con crowd with each year. I have heard whispered breaths wishing that the crowds would “leave and never come back” or that we would “let them eat at my favorite restaurant in peace” or even that they would “stop blocking traffic so that us normal people could go on with our lives.”
I am not saying that this is reflective of all people in the San Diego area around Comic Con, but in the last few years that I was there I felt more and more uncomfortable around certain San Diegans who expressed these kinds of feelings. And this incident is just another example of the growing impatience some San Diego residents are beginning to feel towards the Comic Con crowds. Of course, the police investigation into the incident will reveal more details and who was at fault in the future (especially considering the driver was hearing impaired), but as it appears right now, according to several eye witnesses at the event, the man was impatient and simply peeled off into the crowd.
Zombie Walk incident screen cap courtesy of KTLA 5 News Online
Of course, who could forget the woman who was killed at Comic Con when she tried to run across a busy street to get to the San Diego Convention Center and ran into the side of a car. Clearly she was in the wrong in that instance, but still…