CoasterMatt
04-19-2005, 06:09 AM
"Eleven Mad Max fans were arrested after alarming motorists as they made their way to a movie marathon in a theatrical convoy in which they surrounded a tanker truck armed with fake machine guns. As the group was headed to San Antonio from nearby Boerne Saturday morning, police received several calls from motorists who reported a 'militia' surrounding a tanker truck, a police report states. Police charged nine people with obstruction of a highway and two others with possession of prohibited knives in addition to obstruction of a highway.... [Convoy organizer Chris Fenner] said he didn't know why anyone would have confused the costumed crew recreating a scene from Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior - set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland - with a real threat."
Read the article here (http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3139955).
Read the article here (http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3139955).