The First Rule of Fight Club
This kid wasn’t paying attention:
A Manhattan teenager has been arrested in the May 25 bombing of a Starbucks coffee shop on the Upper East Side, and the explosion appears to have been modeled on a scene from the 1999 film “Fight Club,” the New York Police Department said on Wednesday.
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Mr. Shaw had bragged to friends that he was responsible for the bombing, Mr. Kelly said, and had started an underground fight club modeled on the one in the 1999 film, which was directed by David Fincher and starred Brad Pitt and Edward Norton and was based on a novel by Chuck Palahniuk.
“His statements indicated he was launching his own Project Mayhem,” Mr. Kelly said, referring to a plan in the movie, hatched by the protagonist of the film, to sabotage corporations by destroying property. Mr. Shaw had told a friend to “watch the news on Memorial Day,” May 25, Mr. Kelly said.
