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On October 4, 1987, the North Park Cinemas experienced a massive incident involving an angry truck driver from Kansas City, Missouri, and the North Park Cinemas staff. Shortly after 8:00 PM that evening, a dispute over a movie ticket ended in an attempt to “turn the theater into a drive-in theater” (as what the Courier-Journal said) after the angry truck driver crashed his truck into a big chunk of the theater lobby. At the time of the incident, none of the 200 people from inside the theater were hurt nor injured.

Police replied that 46-year-old Kansas City resident Clarence M. Dees bought a ticket to see one of the movies, “Fatal Attraction”, but he snuck into two other auditoriums in the middle of the movie to watch parts of “The Curse” and “Like Father Like Son”. Managers refused to refund Dees' money after he saw parts of those three movies. About 15 minutes later, Clarence got outside, got into his trailer-truck, and crashed his truck into the lobby. Audiences who were watching either “Fatal Attraction” or “Dirty Dancing” in the theater heard the big boom from the lobby. The truck that was used in the crash is a Freightliner Conventional WFC-120 owned by Bestline Incorporated of Hopkins, Minnesota. Police confirmed that he maneuvers his Freightliner through a narrow walkway and drove over curbs and signs before crashing into the theater. Lexington Police arrested Dees while standing in the lobby next to his truck and was charged with six counts of first-degree wanton endangerment and two counts of criminal mischief.