[independentmind]

There are legitimate public safety reasons why someone should not sit in a theater with his/her face covered.

Look up the Chechen terrorist attack in Moscow at the Dubrovka Theater on 23 October 2002.

[Rebel_Ace]

"Look up the Chechen terrorist attack in Moscow at the Dubrovka Theater on 23 October 2002."

I don't have to "look them up", they were a CUSTOMER of mine. We provided the ticketing system that they used. Grim as it sounds, the system's seat assignment feature was probably used to help identify bodies.

A description of the siege:

"During Act II of a sold-out performance of Nord-Ost a little after 9:00 PM, 40–50 heavily armed and masked men and women drove in a bus to the theater and entered the main hall firing assault rifles in the air."

They did not 'rise up' out of the audience, they drove a bus to the building during the second act, and stormed the doors, guns blazing. I supposed they would have taken their masks off, if only Russia had passed a law making it illegal to cover your face...

[Rebel_Ace]

Here are a couple of screen shots of the system we sent. I have never had the heart to delete them from our archives: