Jared Leto
saves fans from alleged bomber
According to internet reports, 30 Seconds To Mars frotnman
Jared Leto saved fans from an alleged suicide bomber last night in Los Angeles.
Fans were gathered at The Hive in West Hollywood for a
special screening of a new 30 Seconds To Mars documentary when, at
approximately 8:30PM, a young man in a black hooded top stormed into the venue.
He pushed his way to the front of the room and dropped a large box covered in
gold wrapping paper at Leto’s feet.
When the singer asked him to leave the stage, the
unidentified male said “It’s time for a little self-help” and is then said to
have allegedly muttered something about having explosives. Upon hearing this,
Leto wrestled with the man and dragged him out of the room.
“[It was] weird,” said one eyewitness. “Everyone in the room
watched him walk toward Jared. Jared said ‘Someone stop him’ three or four
times, but no one did. The guy got to Jared, dropped the box on the floor and
started to give a speech. Jared grabbed him by the shoulders and basically [dragged]
him out the back door."
The alleged bomber was restrained by the band’s security
guards until the police and bomb disposal experts arrived.
“I just finished with the police,” Leto wrote on his Twitter
at 11PM last night. “They cleared five blocks and brought in the bomb squad and
[sniffer] dogs.”
As can be seen, this article is rather short and direct but
also seems in many ways to use words that exaggerate the situation or else
create a powerful impact, such as claiming that the man “stormed” into the
stage and how Jared Leto “wrestled” the man away despite the fan footage of the
incident making it seem far less dramatic than one would possibly suspect from
the language used in the article. Including the quote from Leto’s blog is also
an example of this, as it does not seem needed, it is merely there for either
shock value or to enhance the viewers excitement.
