More security for broadway audiences?- Page 7
More security for broadway audiences?
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
security for audiences?#150
Posted: 12/4/15 at 5:08am
Dave13 said: "haterobics said: "There is nothing safer than crossfire.
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Maybe. Maybe not but it beats sitting in a fetal position waiting to die. At least you have a fighting chance to save people and get out alive.
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Or...you become a bigger target, and the risk that you hit more innocent victims.
Or that you have an unstable person pull out their gun during Miss Saigon and shoot: talkers, cell phone testers, wrapper sprinklers or even the actors - because they never should have been allowed to have a gun in the first place.
I'm pretty certain of which is likely more certain to happen...repeatedly.
Broadway Star Joined: 10/29/14
security for audiences?#151
Posted: 12/8/15 at 4:46pm
Great article in todays LA Times about security in Broadway theaters.
Broadway Star Joined: 10/29/14
security for audiences?#153
Posted: 12/8/15 at 11:19pm
SmokeyLady said: "Great article in todays LA Times about security in Broadway theaters. "
What's great about it? It has no meaningful info in it-just the sort of piece Charles has to write to justify his expense account.
security for audiences?#154
Posted: 12/8/15 at 11:23pm
they should put bulletproof glass between the audience and the performers. Actors are irreplacable unlike audience members.
Just kidding.
security for audiences?#155
Posted: 12/9/15 at 2:48am
Great angle for an article. I don't know what security measures Broadway theaters take now, so let's assume they're bad... and that no one will tell me what they do, because then they're just instructing people how to get around them, and then a few tourists I asked about terrorists told me their thoughts, oh and I was in midtown NYC and saw a police van, so something must be up...
Alert the Pulitzer committee!
Stand-by Joined: 4/20/06
security for audiences?#156
Posted: 3/30/16 at 2:14pm
Borstalboy said: "Good Lord, were all of you raised by helicopter parents?? What you seem to be asking for is self-induced, police state-like tactics at the theater, am I getting this right?
The terrorists have truly won.
Completely agree with you on this. A friend from Europe recently joked that because of US citizens' knee-jerk fear over everything many overseas were nicknaming us the United States of Pants-wetters. I seriously blame the cable TV 24-hour news cycle that postulates assorted mayhem and makes sure to squeeze the fear factor out of everything and anything, making the credulous believe that an assassin is hovering over them as they sleep or a terrorist is hiding under their bed in order to boost their ratings. Our country made it through two World Wars and assorted other violent obstacles without comprising our freedoms for safety and now too many are wandering around in a chronic google-eyed palsy of fearful prostration willing to give up anything and everything in order to be offered some imaginary guarantee that nothing bad will ever happen to them.
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