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What Did Freud, Billy, and Socrates Do?

posted 10 years ago by Rockhound6165
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At the mall when all of the historical figures are being arrested, some of them do do something to get bounced. Those are:

Beethoven-Commandeered the keyboard system at the music store and did not leave when the salesman asked him.

Genghis Khan-Destroys a mannequin at the sporting goods store.

Joan of Arc-Shoved the aerobics instructor out of the way and commandeered the aerobics class.

Abe Lincoln-In a misunderstanding, the kid at the photo booth thought he was stealing the beard and hat.

Billy, Freud, and Socrates were just milling about and did nothing to get locked up except to further the plot.

[–] WandererFromYs 10 years ago

Billy did fire his gun in the air, which is worse than anything anyone else did.

[–] pantherfan99 9 years ago

Billy did fire his gun in the air, which is worse than anything anyone else did.

Yet they let him keep his gun and holster in jail

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[–] dmahnarch 8 years ago

San Dimas was a very conservative town, before the hippies came...

He was arrested for disturbing the peace, not firing his gun...

Yeah.

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[–] kswiss89 10 years ago

I came here to ask why Beethoven was arrested, did the manager ask him to leave? Hell I'd be thanking him for bringing such a croud into the store

[–] louisa1990 10 years ago

I don't think he did ask him to leave, like you said he attracted quite an audience so I think the manager did want him there.

Maybe it was seen as a public disturbance or something like that? Complaints from other stores about the noise maybe?

As for Freud, I think it was just because he was running away with Abraham Lincoln who was already in trouble.

And same with Socrates, he was running away with Billy the Kid after he fired his gun in the air.

[–] king_of_bob 10 years ago

You can see the manager get frustrated and call in security to have him removed. Realistically though, that wouldn't happen. Since his playing was drawing a huge crowd and would only have helped improve business.

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[–] squeemu 10 years ago

Yeah, you can clearly see the manager talking to the cops giving them the go-ahead to arrest Beethoven. I always thought that made absolutely no sense. The manager should have be ecstatic about how many potential customers he was attracting. He probably would have tried to hire him!

[–] Stevicus-2 9 years ago

Yeah, you can clearly see the manager talking to the cops giving them the go-ahead to arrest Beethoven. I always thought that made absolutely no sense. The manager should have be ecstatic about how many potential customers he was attracting. He probably would have tried to hire him!

I often thought the same thing. It seemed a good way to attract customers. I wonder if any real music stores ever hired anyone to dress like Beethoven to play in front of their store after this movie came out.

[–] dmahnarch 8 years ago

I would do that... if I knew how to play piano.

OOO! Bagpipes always draw a crowd!

*looks up bagpipes*

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[–] MystMoonstruck 9 years ago

You can see the manager get frustrated and call in security to have him removed. Realistically though, that wouldn't happen. Since his playing was drawing a huge crowd and would only have helped improve business.

Not true! Once upon a time, I was excellent on the double-keyboard organ. There was a store in the mall near my home, and I sat down to show my friend what I was capable of. Very soon, a crowd was gathering, and people made requests.

Then, the manager walked up to me and said I had to stop playing and leave the store! It was the only time in my life that I was asked to leave a store, and everyone was so shocked because people had been enjoying the performance and actually wanted to know about taking lessons! They even asked the manager WHY I had to stop! He claimed it was a disturbance.

By the way: The store was an open-front one, so I had quite an audience.

I wasn't anywhere near as good as Beethoven definitely, but I was considered the best player in the area with many years of lessons and performances "under my belt", as they say.

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[–] MadSimian 10 years ago

Probably a case of "guilt by association". Or, in other words, the cops picked up the entire group along with the troublemakers until they could work out the exact details of who did what.

Also, it has always been my humorous assumption that those two girls whom Billy, So-crates(lol) and "Siggy" were hitting on probably reported Freud for being a perv. Which is kind of appropriate considering his style of psychology is very sexualized. lol

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[–] king_of_bob 10 years ago

At the very least they stole a water gun for Socrates to fire and Billy actually fires his real revolver at the mall. As for Freud, who knows.

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[–] hskerfanlife 9 years ago

I always wondered if some of the arrests were "guilty by association" Gengis Khan was trashing a dummy in the sporting goods store, Abraham Lincoln wouldn't give up the "Hat and Stupid beard", etc. Then mall security/cops crashed down on all the historical figures.

[–] hurricanehorton 9 years ago

Disturbing the peace?

Causing a disturbance, whilst dressed a historical figures?

[–] McFly_2015 9 years ago

could have been suspicion of mischief; 3 or 4 of the group were causing trouble and they were all dressed oddly so the police likely felt they were in cahoots.