Heroic moviegoer smashes cellphone and gets tossed

[ViRGE]

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The mans a hero...

To many cell phone users that think that society has an obligation to be courteous to them. But they have no obligation to be courteous to anyone ...

Uno

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I can't even begin to imagine what kind of an oaf would be using a cell phone at the theater. It's bad enough at a movie theater, but at a theater proper it shows a massive level of disrespect towards the cast and crew.

 

[Thebobo]

/bow

 

[DrPizza]

Back in the day, theatres used to have ushers who would kick out unruly patrons. I don't know why they did away with that, because they're needed more than ever. Boggles my mind that someone would pay $10-$15 to see a movie then spend the whole night on the phone.

Also a good reason to revive drive ins. If you want to be a asshole, go nuts. They're confined to their own car/minivan so they can't bother other patrons.

I've considered that when I go to popular movies and the place is packed, that I need to bring along some water-washable form of black paint for some headlights.

 

[Childs]

From the article...

the woman sitting to Williamson's right on his bench would not, he says, stop using her cell phone. "It looked like she was Googling or something," Williamson tells us. "So I leaned over and told her it was distracting and told her to put it away. She responded, 'So don't look.' "

If she wasnt making noise and simply browsing, this dude was out of line. And he did it to a woman, not a guy who would have lit him up. Its one thing if he tried this in a ghetto movie theater, but it takes no "heroism" to do it to woman in the patchouli smelling theater crowd. Depending on the phone, this could be a felony. Usually there is some law like Malicious Destruction of Property that turns into a felony in the $200-500 range.

 

[gorcorps]

I dont think any part of your thread title is accurate...

play, not movie.
threw phone at a curtain, not smashed.
left on his own accord despite them trying to detain him, not tossed out.

all of this

BUT, the "smashed" and "gets tossed" part are both pulled from the article title. I'm not sure why the OP changed theatergoer to moviegoer, unless he didn't think the title was misleading enough. :hmm: