Woman asks (much larger) man to stop texting in movies; gets fined for assault

[tazber]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 7:37am

Some people......
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[madbrian]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 8:10am

She should have done what I did last Sunday. We were seeing Crazy Stupid Love, and a guy a few rows in front of us was texting. So, I started lobbing Reese's Pieces at him. One miss, one contact got his attention, another miss, then another hit and he stopped texting. I felt a little cheated for the loss of 4 Reese's Pieces, but it was for a good cause.

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 8:18am

This gets the Stupid Award for the week. Everybody involved is stupid.

1) The stupid guy who can't turn his phone off, because he's "important." He also can't leave the theatre if an "important" text come in. He also goes to the movies if he's expecting an "important" text.

2) The stupid woman who "touched" him. She should have just yelled in his ear, "Turn your f*cking phone off ... NOW." Instead she either poked, tapped, pushed, prodded, or injured a big "important" lug.

3) The stupid police for thinking it was perfectly fine to slap her with a misdemeanor ticket of $260 instead of slapping him with a ticket for creating a public disturbance.

4) The stupid behavior of stupid Americans everywhere who can't figure out how do behave in public and can't solve their problems on their own without acting like little children running to tell the Mommy Police that another kid bothered them.

Updated On: 8/4/11 at 08:18 AM

[Craig]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 8:23am

In an article linked:

"The real wimps, Fout said, are the people who believe everything they read and make anonymous statements online without knowing the real story. If anybody wants to come say some of that stuff to his face and threaten him, they’re welcome, “but when you’re sipping through a straw for a month because you’re jaw is broke, don’t blame me,” he said. “I take care of business.”"

Ok - so that wouldn't be assault?

[AC126748]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 8:53am

He "takes care of business" by acting like a pants-wetting baby and preening when a woman he's got a hundred pounds on taps him on the shoulder. Sounds like a typical macho asshole who talks a big game but turns into a pile of pudding the second he's "threatened".

And you're absolutely right, best--it's ridiculous that he wasn't charged with causing a public disturbance. If I were a 130 pound woman and an ex-football player with a hundred pounds on me sneezed in my direction in a situation like this he'd be charged with a lot more than that.

[nygrl232]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 9:02am

The excuses people in that kind of situation are always funny and absurd. Much easier to just turn the phone off, or excuse yourself if it's so important. Wonder what that important deadline was about that warranted a trip to the movies.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 9:22am

I'd have gone to court just for the opportunity to subpoena his phone records to show what his "important" message really was.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 9:34am

I wonder if it was the other way around if the guy would have gotten a ticket? I think not. It's hard teaching children how to behave nowadays being adults don't know how to!

[romantico]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 9:52am

Couldn't the theater management handle this? I would think they would want to avoid this sort of thing. I doubt this is the first theater to ever experience something like this. So, they get the cops involved and and it is now going around the internet.

I was at a movie years ago and the guy behind me was reading the credits to his son and then explaining every part of the film as it happened. He did not even whisper. He was talking and other patrons were distracted as well. I got up,told the manager,they came and quietly and politely asked him to keep it down. He exploded,cursed the usher out and walked out of the theater. The manager gave me two free passes for the inconvenience and I go there to this day because of how they handled the situation.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 9:56am

It's Texas. I am surprised no one pulled a gun out to settle this.

[AC126748]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 9:59am

I can only assume that this is his wife:
Magnited States of America!

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 10:01am

FYI, there's lots of discussion of Dale Fout on twitter, and it ain't good.

I think his blowhard threats to the world at large paint a pretty clear picture of the kind of asswipe he is

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 10:02am

Yet another reason to stick with NetFlix.

A friend of mine and I went to see WITCHES OF EASTWICK when it first came out. Several rows forward of us was this jerk who clearly didnt want to be there, so he took out his keys and was whipping them back and forth to express his disgust at being abducted to this "girlie" movie by his obviously nagging girlfriend.

The guy sitting behind him didnt take too well to his stunt, so, at the right moment, he grabbed said keys and threw them to the side.

The key whipper didnt take too kindly to that... and before long, we had this huge brawl going on competing for our attention to Cher. Police were called, of course, and both guys were escorted out to cheers and applause.

Ah, live entertainment...

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 10:12am

HAHAHAHA!
Mr. Dale Fout of DFW Advertising, are a piece of crap.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 11:07am

Well, I hate him just for this comment about Lieber who wrote the original story:

“Obviously the guy slanted the story because in all likelihood he’s a liberal,” Fout said.

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 11:38am

OMG, I just realized...

DALE FOUT???

LOL -- guys, you have no idea how much of a maroon this guy is. Seriously.

Oh. My. God. This just makes it even funnier.....

[nygrl232]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 11:41am

Oh lordie PLEASE don't let some nut like Michelle Bachmann take him under her wing...

[AC126748]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 11:47am

That would be amazing. They'd turn the woman into a liberal lesbian - much like how Madame Bachmann was "kidnapped" by a lesbian ex-nun.

Bachmann/Fout 2012!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 11:52am

It wasn't that long ago we had no texts, no cell phones, just a home phone, usually without an answering machine. And we somehow survived. No one is that important.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 12:08pm

I still live in that world Joe. My cell phone is left in the car when I go to the movies, or dinner or shopping.

[AC126748]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 12:18pm

Same here. I turn my cell phone off the moment I enter a theatre (movie, Broadway, opera), not seconds before the program is about to start. And I never take my cell phone out to dinner--or, if I have to, it's turned off. Why would I want to sit there texting or fighting off calls when I've set aside time to have a meal with my family/friends? And as a professor, the first thing I tell my students at our initial class meeting is that their cell phones/iPods/whatever electronics must be turned off and unseen for the duration of the class period, and that if I see them they're marked absent for the day.

Everyone nowadays has an overinflated sense of how important they are to the world.

Updated On: 8/4/11 at 12:18 PM

[tazber]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 1:45pm

But AC126748, didn't you read that this particular call was very important?

He had to tell his wife whether he wanted extra crispy or original recipe for dinner.

[AC126748]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 2:02pm

Everyone is always waiting for an important call all the time, always. My favorite comment from students: "I'm expecting a call from my mom!" Tell your mom that you're in a class that's costing her about $3000 and you'll call back later.

[romantico]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 3:47pm

I've asked this question before but I'll ask again.

What did people do before cellular phones? I mean, how did you know what was going on back in the 70's,80's,&90's when you went to a movie? My parents would tell the babysitter what restaurant and movie theater they were going to if there was an emergency. So,when people you the lame excuse that they need their cell phones in the theater in case there is an emergency I remind them how full of sh*# they are. If you are a Doctor or expecting an important phone call then DON'T GO OUT TO THE MOVIES!!!!

We live in a very selfish society today. Everyone else is more important than the next guy and common courtesy is a thing of the past. I'm very prejudice and zero tolerance when it comes to A-holes who do not practice cell phone etiquette. I really wish movie theaters would block signals so patrons simply can not use their phones in the theater. If you want to text or check your email,go outside with the people who are smoking.

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 3:55pm

I was asked to design a play for a festival in Merida, Spain, a number of years ago, and one of the cool things was going to the various venues to see what people were putting up. But one thing that amazed me was that, even though cel phone use is perhaps even more permeating in Europe than here, you dont get the same "me first attitude". At one performance in particular, I can still vividly remember the wave of cel phones that emerged as the audience was leaving... even though while in the theatre, not a single one beeped. Very classy.