I guess don’t take popcorn to the gunfight.
I don't text.
That is over the top. Now, had the movie started, well that is a different story.
Senseless.
In France movie theaters have jammers so that cell phones don’t work. (Or so I’ve been told)
I think that is a good idea in many instances. A theater a Church, a restaurant a school, maybe even a grocery or department store should all be able to block the signals if they want. I can see having to post a notice or something but I just get so tired listening to 1/2 of other people’s conversations.
If they put a GPS in a car then then they could put a jammer there too. If the engine is running the phone won’t work.
Apply the same rules to cell phones as are done with cigarettes.
TAMPA (FOX 13) -
We’re learning more about a retired Tampa police officer accused of shooting and killing a man in Wesley Chapel movie theater, reportedly in a dispute over noisy texting.
Curtis Reeves, 71, left the Tampa Police Department in 1993, where a spokesperson said he helped start the department’s first Tactical Response Team.
“We are not aware of any contact with the department since his departure more than 20 years ago,” spokesperson Laura McElroy said in a media release.
After working at TPD, Reeves went to work doing security at Busch Gardens.
He currently has a son who serves as a Tampa police officer. Mathew Reeves has been with the department since 2003. He has nine letters of appreciation and an excellent duty award in his file, the department said.
Reeves is charged with 2nd degree murder.
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wow..not that surprising
I generally do not go to movies or around people in general as much as possible, because people are ****in’ crazy.
This retired cop has. served the public many years back, but one undisplined moment of anger has destroyed a family and taken away his freedom, possibly for good. Maybe he was in early stages of alzheimers. With all that said, Oualson should not have been texting. People go to the movies to escape the trappings and the tedious gadgetry of modern life, at least many people do. People from all walks of life seem to get very mad very easily. There is no one explanation. Leave that phone alone during movie hour!
I’m sorry to have to say, texting three-year-olds is just plane dumb. Doing it in a theatre is even dumber. Doing it with a movie about to start called “Lone Survivor” is just asking for it.
“He was instrumental in establishing the department’s first Tactical Response Team,”
Oh really?!?
Now, that’s the kind of information I’d probably keep to myself.
The shooter sounds like an ass.
How could texting distract him?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSRI_discontinuation_syndrome
Watch for a history of anti depressant usage.
I’m serious.
Anti depressants are modern quackery.
Three-year olds text? I think most theatres have a screen shot of asking people to turn off their electronic device during the movie. This has happened before it will probably happen again, unfortunately.
If you’re gonna shoot, shoot. Don’t text.
Won’t catch me at a movie theater anymore unless it’s on a military base. To many assholes, prices are ridiculous and the whole cell phone BS. Last one I went to in town was in the early 90’s.
Only been to a few on base since then as well but at least on base, you stand for the national anthem, people are respectful and prices are reasonable otherwise I’ll wait for what I want to see come out on DVD, sit in my chair with a beer and enjoy the movie.
Retired Tampa police officer — one of the “trusted” to have a weapon.
I feel the same about rude morons & their “wireless devices”
after a dispute over texting with a retired police officer.
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Does that mean they were conversating with each other?
Or non-verbally talking?
(The idiots that appear on the ‘judge’ shows are slowly replacing “I borrowed him some money” with “We were having a verbal discussion OR we were conversating”).
Like the woman complains about her husband thinking he is a refrigerator.
After explaining the problem she stated: “Anyway, he sleeps with his mouth open and the light keeps me awake”.
Let’s get something straight. When you go into the movie theater shut your phone off. If someone tells you to shut it off, apologize and shut your phone off. If they pull a gun out don’t be a wise ass and say what are you going to do, shoot me? The answer could be yes, dumbass!