Using Your Cellphone During a Movie? Have a Bullet.

It's certainly not worth someone's life, but if you use your cellphone during a movie you deserve something. A kneecapping, perhaps.

Frank? Roxie? Was it you!? :squee:

That's what we call a justifiable homicide right there.

Give the shooter 30 hours community service and call it a day.

The shooter should be sentenced to make a PSA on how rude it is to use cellphones during movies.

Even though it's something petty to get killed over...it's hard to feel bad for self centereed douchebags.

If only they had listened to the Oatmeal.

Dude, I'd get up and shit in the toilet of shame just so I could stink up the whole theater. There would be no poo-puri either.

Meh. Talking on your phone at the movies is a problem, as is not turning off the ringer for the movie. Hang 'em by the neck till dead if they do that. But texting? During the previews? That doesn't even rate a sideways glance.

I hate cell phone use in public places like that as much as anyone.

But I do hate the idea of a guy in the theatre armed with a handgun as well.

He didn't feel any god damned fear for his life. He's just an angry old man who got into an argument and whipped out his gun because he's gun nut shit bag. He committed first degree murder and at the very least he belongs in a tiny cage for the rest of his life.

Can't say if it was justified or not just yet. Seems kinda unlikely given the circumstances.

Florida.

Uh no. We know the murderer initiated the conflict. If you can't control your anger over someone texting during movie previews and you feel the need to confront them then you can't be carrying a gun in public. If you carry it's your responsibility not to gratuitously initiate conflict. You do support responsible gun ownership, don't you? Or is that all a lie and you think people who own guns should get to start fights and then shoot their victims as soon as the fight seems to not be going how they planned?

You are evil for writing this.

And I am evil for laughing long and loud about it...

Can't be shooting at people over a text message. This guy needs to die behind bars.

Still, there does need to be a zero tolerance policy in cinemas. So much as look at your phone, and you get ejected.

To be fair, all we know is that the confrontation started over a text message, and that he ended up shooting. Though my gut feeling is that he was probably 100% in the wrong, and nothing justified the shooting, that is based on a woefully insufficient amount of information concerning what happened along the way, between the initial confrontation over the text message, and the shooting. If it was the guy doing the texting who initiated violence (as opposed to mere name calling, threats, complaints to the management, and popcorn flying in the air), and if that violence went far enough, it is possible the shooting may have been justified self-defense. It is at least worth waiting to have more information before deciding firmly that "he needs to die behind bars." To come to such a verdict on the basis of so little information, without even getting a chance to hear the details, is hardly consistent with the principle of justice that is championed in the West. It is in fact more in line with the lynchings that have too often marked our past.

Whatever happened to good, old fashioned pimp slaps?

Why even start an argument over texting during a movie? Unless each text was greeted with some stupid, loud ringtone, just ignore it. People yapping away on a phone during a movie should get shot on general principle but texting? Overreaction.

But it's not overreacting when you're a gun nut. Everyone carrying is a nut, and could snap at any moment.

This is why I hardly ever go to movies any more. Some of you douchebags are actually saying texting in the theater is no big deal.

At least there are plenty of witnesses this time. We will have more than just the word of the person who fired a bullet in to another body.

I get tired of seeing all those damned little glowing screens all over the darkened theatre.

Besides to me it is rude as hell. If being in a theatre with 100 other people is not "social" enough for you that you feel compelled to send a bunch of tiny, almost always meaningless messages to people then you've got no damn business being out in public. Being glued to a personal electronic device is basically saying to everyone around you "Fuck You! You don't matter to me!!!"

I can't blame people for getting royally pissed off. Still, no way in hell I would draw a loaded gun in a movie threatre. I don't care if the guy throws popcorn or takes a swing at me. You simply cannot justify lethal force much less using lethal force in a crowd of bystanders packed together. And hell, a former cop should know this forwards and backwards.

Yup. The dumbfucks who say texting is no big deal in a movie theatre seem to forget that phones are very glowy and distracting (even on low brightness and vibrate).

Clearly, it was meant to be an over-the-top parody. I don't seriously condone killing someone over cellphone use.

In most cases.

Right off the bat I call bullshit. Unless the 3-year-old is a certified genius, no kid that age can string together a written sentence, let alone read one.

I say it's okay during the previews, not okay during the feature.

My guess is the care giver was operating the phone on the other end. I wouldn't get too caught up in this irrelevant point.

If studios want me to stop pirating movies.

Spend the money they try to use to make me to stop to lower ticket prices and force theatres to enforce "politeness" rules.

Of course in this day and age the theatres would have to hire freaking Blackwater to throw out the entitled douchebags who would try to attack the manager for throwing them out.

And George is still free and you can do nothing about it.

It's not okay, period. Cellphone jammers should be installed in movie theatres. Either that, or cellphones have to be put in secure lockers before you enter the theatre.

Also, children under the age of 12 months should not be allowed in any movie theatre, under any condition.

(I have a whole list of demands that must be met before movie theatres start getting some of my money back.)