Text Messager During Movie gets $400 Fine
By Bernie on 23 Apr 2008
Melissa Nelson, 25, a Racine, Wisconsin woman was fined $400 for sending a text message in a movie theater. She claims she received a text message concerning her 5-year-old daughter and that she quietly sent one text message back. Police say there's a lot more to the story.
As I mentioned in my post Things that tick me off, "People who talk in movies really piss me off. Let's all admit it - it's usually someone with three syllables in her name like Shaniqwa. If you stare in her direction as a polite hint that she is an uncivilized animal she takes great offense.
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I can't wait for theaters to get cell-phone jammers."
The tattoo on Mrs Nelson's arm indicates how classy this woman is.
Unless you are a doctor or similar type professional person and are called for an emergency transplant, it is just barely permissible for you to have your cell on vibrate; but you must not open your phone in the theater proper. Quickly run out into a spot where the light of your cell will not distract viewers.
This means you should come early enough to the theater to grab an aisle seat so as to make for a facile escape and not disturb other theater goers.
All others should simply tell baby-sitters, grandparents or others who are watching your child not to call you unless your baby/infant/child has died or been kidnapped by Hungarian circus midgets.
Mrs. Nelson said she sent a text message in reply regarding her child. Obviously the first message she got couldn't have been important otherwise she would have bolted out of her seat to tend to her child. If it wasn't serious enough to run home for, then it wasn't serious enough to spend some time sending back a text message and annoying others.
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