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   I probably shouldn't be laughing...

Since the abc has been known to make it difficult to post links by changing them periodically as things fall off the front page, I'm going to copy out the entire article here. It seems fair enough, but if you doubt the accuracy of my copy-pasting abilities (hey, it happens, but james thinks it was a cache thing, having attempted to see if he could do a mock-up of the website I was seeing in the time it took me to make a screenshot, which I think is pretty bastardly cause I believe him when he says stuff that sounds dodgy without trying to prove if he is dodgy but that's not the point) the original article is here.

Swashbuckling Crowe sparks 'terror' alert
The new Russell Crowe film Master and Commander is proving more realistic than audiences expected.
An Adelaide cinema was evacuated last night after four people reported feeling sick, one of whom was taken by ambulance to hospital.
Authorities suspected a gas leak and evacuated the cinema and part of Jetty Road for two hours.
Spokesman Richard Gray believes the film they were watching proved too realistic and the audience became sea sick.
"We have all the gas detection equipment that will allow us to detect almost anything that we can come across but certainly nothing to detect the effect of a film," he said.
"It's just one of those things, one of those funny stories in life that we can tell our grandchildren about."
When Fire Service crews donned breathing apparatus and used gas monitoring devices to investigate the incident they found nothing.
Cinema manager Paul Besanko says it turned out the people became sea sick and nauseous because the effects were so real.
He says it caused a panic among the 150 patrons.
"It was a shock when a couple of people started fainting, it spread through the auditorium, it was a bit of mass hysteria," he said.
"People started pouring out and the ambulance arrived and the word 'terrorism' was mentioned and then all of a sudden the fire brigade and the police [turned up] and on it went."

Okay, the fact that people were fainting was unfunny. My Aunt got seasick in Titanic while pregnant and has never been able to watch that movie again. But the fact that the first thing all those people thought was 'terrorism' says something about the modern world that I find amusing. And sad too.

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