Dangers of 3D: Avatar

Officers responded to a call at 8:32 p.m. this evening at the Century 16 Theater.  A man attending the 7:00 p.m. showing of the 3-D film "Avatar" was struck in the chest by a wooden arrow that left the screen during one of the movie's action sequences.  The theater staff had roped off the seating section, declaring it an unsafe zone.  The man willfully stepped over the ropes to obtain his seat, which he told friends provided him a better viewing angle.  The man was alive and conscious when officers and paramedics arrived on scene.  The arrow had pierced one lung but had caused no damage to the heart.  Paramedics initially declared the man in stable condition, before learning that the film's alien Na'vi race apply a potent neurotoxin to the tips of their arrows.  The man's death was declared while en route to the hospital.  Initial speculation about the man's survival prospects had he reached the hospital sooner was dismissed after the hospital issued a statement claiming that even if the man had still been alive when he reached the hospital, the hospital is not stocked with anything to counteract fictional poisons.