The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun? A weird guy with an accordion.


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Several moviegoers in Chicago’s Logan Theater found themselves living this NRA contradiction after a midnight screening of "Weird Al" Yankovic’s 1989 comedy, UHF nearly ended in a hail of bullets.



The extremely …  weird incident went down on Saturday evening, when a man entered the Northside movie theater roughly 20 minutes into the movie, attempting to strike up a loud conversation with another viewer.  


While a manager was ultimately deployed to the scene, urging the viewer to please shut the hell up — a message allegedly seconded by an audience member who hurled a popcorn bucket in his direction — these interventions backfired, the man whipping a gun from his waistband and pacing throughout the theater.


“He then stormed up the aisles while pulling out and cocking the gun,” Owen, an audience member at that fateful showing, told Chicago Sun-Times, noting that several people dropped to the floor upon seeing the firearm.



Though Owen and other Weird Al fans were able to make a break for it, fleeing the theater after the would-be shooter turned his back, it appears no bullets were actually fired.


Chicago police stated that no one was hurt in the ordeal. Though the near-assailant left behind his cell phone, no one has been arrested in connection to the incident.


We can only hope that authorities will solve this case — even if it takes a “Party in the CIA.”