Very Un-Christlike Post Jesus Christ Superstar Assault! - Page 2

[allofmylife]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 6:40am

Don't worry. She's not going to be around long with that attitude. Someone else will not be so gentle when she pulls that stuff.

[temms]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 7:12am

AAAAARGHHHH! Cell phone jammers won't fix the problem, people!!!!!!!!

Half the time when a phone makes noise in a theatre, it's an alarm!!! A jammer WILL NOT, CANNOT stop an alarm from going off!!!

I hear this all the time, "Just make signal jammers legal." But when an idiot patron sets the alarm on their phone to go off during a show (as they often do) and then don't turn the phone off (as they often do) no jamming device in the world will stop that alarm from going off at exactly the moment it's been set to go off.

The alarm is what disrupted "Salesman" so much that Gothamist, a non-theatre blog, wrote a long frustrated post. A jammer would not have stopped that.

The alarm is what disrupted the NY Philharmonic Mahler concert that got all the press. A jammer would not have stopped that.

There is no solution. Phones will continue to go off in the theatre unless people can learn to be considerate. Thus, phones will continue to go off in the theatre. There is nothing that can be done technologically to stop it. When someone brings an alarm clock into a theatre and sets it to go off, no technology will stop that alarm clock from going off. I'd think people wouldn't do it in the first place, but I've obviously been proven wrong on multiple occasions.

I just want to scream anytime someone says "Install a jammer", because it will not solve the problem in addition to being an unrealistic regulatory nightmare (you try and get several multi-billion dollar companies to willingly agree to let other businesses block customer access to their service.)


Updated On: 6/6/12 at 07:12 AM

[My Oh My]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 7:55am

You should have just punched her in the mouth. That has stopped many a bitch's paws from infecting my personal space with their a-holism.

Yeah, next time, smash her right smack in the jabber. That'll quit her barking.

[tazber]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 8:13am

What is it about Jesus that brings out the worst in people?

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 8:33am

And that's why I carry a tazer...

[Kelly2]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 10:04am

Thanks for making me laugh, maybe a tazer is exactly what I need...if I didn't think she could possibly have a concealed weapon or a distinct lack of self control I would've started spittin' some Bible verses at her.

Just kidding. I don't know any.

[sally1112]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 10:11am

I just can't believe people act like this. I don't expect someone who is in the wrong to say, "Oh yes, you are right. I have learned my lesson, thank you for your guidance." But they can at least know that they are wrong, stop the inappropriate behavior, and sit there and shut up. Perhaps even being a little embarrassed, or pout a bit!

[Fosse76]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 10:11am

"Finally, a rent-a-cop in a golf cart meanders by, I flag him down, and she takes off running. He went to go find it and came back to get a full description from me and took my number, since apparently that counts as assault! Hooray!"

Was it a rent-a-cop (security guard) or an actual police officer? Because either way, it is not a prosecutable assault unless she actually hit you and left a mark.

"Glad you're okay. Maybe Broadway theatres will install cell phone jammers to avoid this all together."
Those are illegal in this country, so don't expect that to happen. Cell phone jammers could actually cause a delay in emergency services, when every second counts. I'd rather watch someone get yelled at repeatedly for using a cell phone rather than watch someone die because a cell phone jammer caused a one minute delay in getting an ambulance to theater.

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 10:15am

^^^ My question excatly, tazber

I could see things like this happening in PHANTOM or WICKED, but... JCS?

I am so sorry this happened to you

[Kelly2]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 10:32am

Thanks EponineAmneris...you'd think maybe a show that expresses an angrier worldview would attract more angry people but Jesus really can make people f'ing insane sometimes.

"Was it a rent-a-cop (security guard) or an actual police officer? Because either way, it is not a prosecutable assault unless she actually hit you and left a mark."

It was an actual cop, sorry, should've been more clear. He was riding around in a very cute official-looking police golfcart. I wasn't looking to prosecute, I was looking to get her as far away from me as possible and try to end the conflict so I could leave with my mom.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 10:37am

If you know what seat she was siting in, there's a good chance you could get the police to track her down through the box office.

[Playbilly]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 10:42am

These days, all ya have to say is "I'm standing my ground, and about to bust a cap in yer a$$!"

That should do it.

[Rainbowhigh23]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 10:56am

I'm with CarlosAlberto - I would have gone Sonny Corleone on that biotch if she came up to me like that. The ass whoopin' would have been all over Youtube by now.

I'm sorry that you're theater experience had to be affected by a jackass like her.

[Kelly2]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 10:59am

Jordan, do you think that's worth giving them a call? I do in fact know her exact seat location as she was sitting right next to me.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 11:36am

I was unaware of it, but Fosse76 seems to be right: in NY State assault requires an actual injury. The crime here, apparently, is "menacing."

[abitoftap]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 11:42am

copacetic

As a gentle aside, I'd like to thank Kelly2 for allowing me to learn the meaning of a new word.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 11:43am

If you said the police were looking for her and you know her location, if they paid with a credit card then they'll be able to locate her, it seems.

[JamesBroadwayWiner]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 11:49am

Wow. I have never experienced anything like that. The most annoying thing that has ever happened to me at a theatre is either when a little girl insisted on singing along to all the songs in Mamma Mia or when people came back in late after intermission at Wicked.

[Kelly2]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 12:03pm

Thanks Jordan, I never even thought of that as a possible way to locate her. I'm not sure if there is really enough to go off of to make a solid case against her, but the b*tch inside me believes bad behavior should be punished, so I think I'll let them know. :)

[Playbilly]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 12:19pm

Or, Kelly2, you could just chalk it up to a frustrating yet now amusing anecdote and just move on.

[Kelly2]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 12:30pm

Playbilly, I agree it's funnier with distance from it, but we do have to be careful about excusing "assault" as an "amusing story". I have no intention of making it my life's work to track this woman down, I've got more important things to do

[Tom1071]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 12:33pm

Kelly2 that woman had no right to put her hands on you. I am so sorry that happened. Clearly she was nuts and ill-mannered. I must say that you seem to be an embattled theatre goer.

One of your previous adventures lead to one of my favorite discussion threads in BWW history.



RUSH DRAMA Updated On: 6/6/12 at 12:33 PM

[adam.peterson44]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 12:38pm

Have to agree that there is really nothing funny about using violence and threatening more violence to someone who has simply asked you to follow the laws of NYC and not interfere with people's enjoyment of a performance they paid to see. If the police would actually follow up and arrest her for the assault (standing on someone's feet is a physical and not only verbal assault), it might make the community a safer place if violent people feel like there is a threat of being caught. Obviously she knew what she was doing was wrong all along, since she ran away when a police officer approached. If people thought that police could track them down after an assault, it might serve as a deterrent that would make everyone safer. So Kelly, if you have the time for it, you would be doing all law-abiding theatregoers a service, and possibly saving an innocent person from an injury in the future.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 12:38pm

I find this story scary; not at all amusing.

If she went to all the trouble to stalk you outside the theater, stop you, and physically threaten you (aside from the crazy behavior inside the theater), I hate to think what might have happened if there hadn't been a copy nearby.

She sounds dangerous to me.

[Tom1071]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 12:42pm

I am afraid that going to the theatre will eventually become as annoying as going to the movies with all the disruptive crap that goes on from talking to texting to phones ringing...it is clearly on its way there.