Cinema Owners Seek to Curb Phone Rage

[onehandle]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealand cinema owners may use mobile phone jamming technology to stop mid-movie calls, text messaging — and cell phone rage among patrons, they said Friday.

The national Motion Pictures Exhibitors Association said it's studying the legality of using mobile phone jammers because of the disruption from the phones during movie screenings.

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The worst offenders he saw were middle aged women who answered their phones in cinemas and continued conversations, getting aggravated if asked to turn their cell phones off or leave, he said.

Mackenzie said "cell phone rage" between patrons sometimes turned nasty.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050430/ap_on_hi_te/new_zealand_phone_jammers_1

Oh please, oh please, oh please do this in America. Please!

[Bronco69]

1. Cell phone users should be treated like smokers

If you're going to do it, GO OUTSIDE!

[MetaTrope]

3. Well, both cause cancer too, right?

:thumbsup:

[fasttense]

2. That's a new one "cell phone rage"

I guess middle-aged women don't like it when you tell them to stop talking.

[onehandle]

5. It happened to me.

It was a woman in her twenties. The house was about half full. This lady was about five rows back of me and to the left. Her phone went off and she answered it. She started carrying on a conversation as if she was in her living room. Several people asked her to cut it out but she did not respond. I got up and went over to her and said please shut off the phone or leave. She said, "I'm on the phone" irritably and continued to carry on her conversation ignoring me.

I had to get a manager to make her leave.

[Tuttle]

4. I read an article somewhere about cell phone jammers

They are illegal here in the US (thanks to cozy deals between congress and telecom lobbies) but widely used in spite of it. Manufactured abroad, their biggest customers are from the US (hotels, who want visitors to use expensive in-room phone service, are a huge customer). Easy to use and configure, hard to detect when being used, it is a classic example of nod-and-wink politics that bar law abiding citizens from obtaining and using but allow big-wig corporations (beyond reproach) to use without fear, while lobbyists and congressmen get fatter and fatter.

Tut-tut

[FrankieBud]

6. Are there any portable

cell phone jammers? I would love to wear one and eliminate all the very personal and private conversations that I am now unable to avoid overhearing as I make my way through todays world.

[Bronco69]

7. What a great idea!

I think you're on to something. :-)