Assclowns in the news: Cell phone in theatre leads to pepper spray!

[FatSlob]

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/07/27/Southpinellas/Movie_drama_starts_wi.shtml

[MrBenchley]

1. If only they'd had guns!

[izzie]

2. I hate movies anymore. Every one acts like they are in their own homes.

You can not hear. Phone now?

[noahmijo]

3. Oh that is such bullshit

I just read the first part where the woman claims that it was "a family emergency" so she had to take the call but she tried to lower her voice.

Here's something, if this was a family emergency why didn't she haul her ass the hell out of the theater???? I guess it wasn't so important since she refused to miss precious seconds out of her precious movie.

I'm sorry but I firmly believe that if your cell phone rings during the movie you deserve whatever ugly stares and mean comments you get.

If you actually take the call and attempt to be unheard while the movie is on while you chat you deserve to get smacked.

[smelcher]

5. And that means

that physical violence is OK if your entertainment is interrupted in a public forum. But killing a stranger in your living room at 2 in the morning while the occupants are asleep is somehow an overreaction

[noahmijo]

6. What the hell are you talking about?

when did I mention that that particular scenario was okay??

I spoke about the sort of respect people should show in movie theatres (using a slightly exaggerated tone, but nonetheless I think you'd find most people would agree with me on it) and you all of a sudden claim that I'm okay with murdering strangers.

do you take lessons from Hannity when it comes to responding?

[smelcher]

7. your words not mine

'If you actually take the call and attempt to be unheard while the movie is on while you chat you deserve to get smacked.'


You advocate smacking someone for taking a call in a theater. That would be physical violence against a stranger.

I have seen an argument that killing a person in your home in the middle of the night is aan overreaction. Maybe I overracted in my post

[noahmijo]

8. THESE were my words

If you actually take the call and attempt to be unheard while the movie is on while you chat you deserve to get smacked.

Translation: You remain seated and chat instead of getting up and taking the call outside the theater like a normal human being.

This is NOT the same as simply taking a call in a theater. This is NOT saying I advocate smacking someone in the theater for simply taking a call.

It is clear that I am saying that I feel that people who remain seated and actually chat instead of getting up and chatting outside the theater or away from the people trying to watch and listen to the movie are those worthy of feeling the palm of a disgruntled movie goer who didn't pay to listen to your obnoxious ass rant on the phone.


attempt to be unheard while the movie is on while you chat you deserve to get smacked.

This clearly describes someone who is not simply taking a call, but someone who takes the call and refuses to get up have his/her conversation elsewhere.

I don't care what I get labled for saying this but remaining in your seat and chatting IN THE MOVIE THEATER is fucking rude and you do deserve to be either yelled at or smacked. (Smacking by the way could consist of being pelted with candy or popcorn, or a 3 stooges style smacking


You didn't just overreact, You twisted what I said. I don't care if you're a liberal or conservative I cannot stand ANYONE who twists around what people say.

[smelcher]

9. I am sorry

your own clarification states that a physical contact is warranted. I feel the same way when a small child in line lips off to me. We agree

[noahmijo]

10. Good now we can be friends again

And just for the record in real life I would not simply reach over and hit someone if they were talking on the phone. I really have no desire to get into stupid unecessary fights or spend the night in jail because I provoked a fight in public.

However that's not to say that I don't think people who do the things that I just described are undeserving of a smacking.

Real life unfortunately does not allow us to deliver this action without massive consequences. :)

[Romulus]

4. salient point (to me, at least)

"It is unclear whether race was a factor in the arrests. Harris and Tolson are black, Douglas is white."







*snip*

Tolson said that as the couple was leaving, he asked why Douglas was removing them.

"The next thing I know," Tolson said, "he pepper-sprayed me. I didn't raise my hand and wasn't rude. Warronnica asked him why he did that, and he pepper-sprayed her."

*snip*

Marcia Gray, an accountant who lives in Tampa, had come to the theater with two of her sons to see The Bourne Supremacy. She had never been to BayWalk before. She was in the hallway, outside the restroom area when, she said, she saw Harris and Tolson approach, with Douglas behind them.

"The man turned and asked the officer why he was making them leave," Gray said, "and the cop just maced him in the face. They weren't yelling or touching him. The man bent over and the girl asked why he maced her boyfriend. Then the cop maced her, and she dropped her soda."

*snip/more*