Movie Goer Searched For Camming Kit, Threatened Over Candy
Written by enigmax on March 17, 2009A woman who went to the cinema to watch a movie says she was “treated like a criminal.” First of all cinema staff searched her looking for camming equipment, but found candy instead which they demanded she turn over. She refused and wouldn’t leave the building when told to either, despite the security guards.
Is it any wonder that the movie and music industries are earning themselves more and more enemies and losing loyal customers every day? Not content with sueing the life out of anyone they feel is a threat to their business, they also have almost unparalleled skill in alienating paying customers too.
According to a report, a woman from the north of England went to the cinema along with her sister to watch the Ben Affleck and Jennifer Anniston movie “He’s Just Not That Into You”.
Upon arriving at Cineworld in Stockport, Greater Manchester, ‘Sue’ and her sister were subjected to a search of their belongings by staff who were looking for ‘camming’ equipment. However, although they failed to find any such hardware, the staff did come across something of serious concern – a bag of milk chocolate Revels.
“I had a packet of Revels and this is where the whole situation started,” Sue told BBC Radio Manchester. Going on, she explained that staff ordered her to hand over the chocolates and said she could collect them after the show, but “out of principle” she refused. And quite rightly so – who do these people think they are?
Followed by the duty manager and two security guards, Sue was told to leave the premises, despite being a paying customer. When she refused the manager said, “Well, I’m going to have to call the police – is that what you want me to do?” Sue replied “Yes, please do. That’s a good idea.”
The manager failed to reappear with the police but won’t have any trouble with Sue in future as she says she will not return to the cinema.
For their part, cinema staff said that selling food and drinks to customers is a part of the profit-making in the business, hence the action against Sue and her sister. Clearly ‘discretion’ and ‘customer service’ are alien concepts to these people.
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166 Responses
oh my god what is the world coming to!!?!
Wooot!
This is just crazy.. if it were possible, i’d definitely sue those people damn.. no way to treat your (ex) customers..
lolol
Don’t let them take you alive Sue!
What happened to the good ol days when as long as it was hidden partially no one actually cared what you brought into the theater. Hell i even worked at one and didn’t care.
… are movie theatres like airports now?
I think she should sue them for harassment
Lol… to be fair my local cineworld are fairly good they allow me and my friends in films with higher age rating with identification. Yeh the piracy warnings are very annoying (especially for QOS which was terrible) but cinema experience is still enjoyable. I see most new films at cinema (probs about 3 per month), and i still pirate every film that comes out (uploader on several forums). I endorse piracy as much as anyone and am sorry Sue had such a bad experience. Cinema is still a sociable outing which is why its more preferable to piracy.
When it costs $25 USD for 2 people to see a movie and get a medium popcorn, it’s a wonder anyone can even afford to go.
Sue should sue (no pun intended)
Noted: Avoid Cineworld in Stockport. I usually go to the Odeon at the Trafford Centre (if I can afford the extravagant cost of watching a film, especially for students).
Reading this made me very angry at the Cinema and the staff there. They have no right to confiscate food off you like that, it’s just like treating a paying customer like a naughty child at school, who had their phone out and it gets confiscated. These people are not children, they are adults. It is the cinema staff who are behaving like children here. These people have PAID money to go and see this movie, they do NOT deserve to be treated like this.
Is it any wonder people bring their own snacks/drinks etc into the cinema, because guess what, cinema food is too damn EXPENSIVE. It can be £6+ for a large popcorn and drink, yet you can go to the shops and get a bag of popcorn for less than £1 and a 2 Litre drink for £1.50.
Stop treating customers like CRIMINALS. They have paid a lot of money for a ticket, especially in rip-off Britain, where everything is just overpriced anyway.
I only go to the Cinema maybe a couple of times a year now, if that, mainly because it’s so damn expensive, but I much prefer watching movies at home, on a big screen, 5.1 audio, can pause the movie when I like and go to the toilet, can eat and drink what I want, actually have foot room and don’t have people talking over the damn movie.
/end rant.
That’s just stupid, even though they say don’t bring candy, who wants to pay five bucks for the same bag of candy that you can get in the store for two?
This is stupid. I can bet that her chance of pirating movies just went up 100%.
Yes r3loaded, except the M60 can often be a hellish experiance. For that reason alone, I’ve not been to the Trafford Centre for years.
My personal favourite was screen 1 at the Odeon, on London road, Liverpool (right around the corner from Lime Street Station, and St Georges Hall) but that’s now been closed. That was a world class screen, easily seat a thousand or two (by comparison, screen5 had a 8ft wide screen, and 12 rows of 12 seats) so it’s all swings and roundabouts.
don’t go any more myself though, not for 6-7 years anyway. Costs are too high for the benefits, especially with kids. Oh, tell a lie, I went to one in the US (run by a British couple) – an old fashioned 30s cinema, about 2 years ago, when visiting TorrentFreak’s US office.
I definetly would hand over a big bag of chocolates to ThePirateBay and Demonoid for that matter – if I only would know where to send it to ….
lol, i live round the corner from here and they always search our bags, but they aren’t allowed (legally) to search our person, so hiding sweets, 2ltr bottles of coke etc in pockets/beltline always gives us a good challenge.
And the Sweet Shop across the road from the cinema makes a killing from us.
MY PRECIOUS
and they wonder why people download movies….
is it possible to find out what movie theater this is maybe it would be a good idea to boycott this cinema would be a nice blow to these greedy asshats
Small specific Private Torrent sites (eg specific TV shows with closed private trackers) I would say are the closest thing we have to alienation
thank god for those people who join those private sites IN ORDER to release it to the open trackers they way bittorrent was meant to be baby!
Also, some of these small time private sites can be really anal about things..sorry, not very scientific, but i think many people will understand what I mean if they’ve ever tried to join and STAY joined to some of these
@20
“Upon arriving at Cineworld in Stockport, Greater Manchester”
lrn2read
There was something on Watchdog about this, it isn’t legal for them to search you. However different cinemas in the same chain will or won’t allow you to bring your own supplies in.
I asked to see the manager when one of the staff told me I wasn’t to bring in my sweets. Manager let me in.
However I haven’t paid to see a film since last July.
Since they’re treating us like pirates anyway why not just do it and get all the perks that go with it?
That`s what she gets for not downloading the movie and watching it from the comfort and privacy of home…
Theater Employee: I need to search your bag.
Me: Kiss my ass.
Cinemas have low ticket prices and high snack prices. This is how they make their profits. If you bring your own snacks, the cinemas lose a lot of money. They can refuse you if they want and you can’t just demand entrance. If you don’t like this business model, don’t go to the cinema.
That’s ridiculous, who the hell would even *want* to cam that movie? :)
my only experience with this is…
I’d just been to a pizza restaurant, and then we were gonna watch a movie. but I hadn’t finished the whole pizza, so brought it along (to heat up/eat after the movie) … the staff noticed it in my bag and asked me to hand it over/throw it away… for fear of me eating it during the movie and making a mess of .. whatever.
a fair reaction on their part I feel… but this?
I’m in agreement with #13. I’ll buy candy from them when they take as much as the store next door.
heck, a large cup of tap-water costs as much as a large cup of coca cola. :P
If it was not for my boyfriend wanting to go to the movies I would not even bother it’s too expensive. For the two of us between the cost to get in then food it usually runs $50. Up until I meet him 2 years ago I had not been to the theater since Star Wars 1 back in 1999. I’m sorry but I’m sick of paying $8 for popcorn $5 for a pop and $4 for a chocolate bar.
Get a decent number of people, all going in singly\pairs, with food, make sure you get searched\stopped (hell, carry it in your hands) and then all demand a refund of ticket price – manager is not going to bounce 10 folk just because of some sweeties, and lose out on 10 x £6 worth of entrance fees.
And then complain to head office and receive free passes while the manager gets told to back off a bit cos 10 folk have all just complained.
TorrentFreak has been unsuccessful in finding any torrent sites that treat their users like this, but we’ll keep looking.
LoL LoL LoL LoL
Ohhh maan. But, was there any suspicion that she had any equipment anyway? Like WTF? No offense, but anyone going to the movies with there lady friend and seeing a chick flick, probably isn’t going to have any camming equipment…
http://torrentino.info
This is so fun. We keep pulling the carpet from under MPAA’s feets and when they try to strike us back they trip to that carpet xD
I can’t wait to watch MPAA bankrupt like MD. Then i could go to movies again knowing my money is not going to suing other innocent people.
@27
Whatever else cinema ticket prices may be, they are not low.
Stupid theater: now they’re responsible for creating at least one, and possibly more than one, pirate.
“TorrentFreak has been unsuccessful in finding any torrent sites that treat their users like this, but we’ll keep looking.”
LOL
it was obviously copyrighted terrorist candy.
The movie suits are just not that into PR…
That’s really funny. In Ottawa Canada, at the local AMC 24 the junk food is really expensive, so we just bring our own. The staff has no problem with it, which is awesome seeing as there is a walmart near by.
PUT THE CHOCOLATE ON THE GROUND! NOW!
“she explained that staff ordered her to hand over the chocolates and said she could collect them after the show, but “out of principle” she refused. And quite rightly so – who do these people think they are?”
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LOL!
this is the EXACT SAME RESPONSE she would have gotten at any sporting event, concert, fair, restaurant, bar, or theme park. but go ahead ernesto, keep trying to fan the flames of your fifteen year old constituency making it sound like this kind of thing is endemic to cinemas; it’s not like you have any journalistic integrity to uphold…
This is old news I’ve been to cineworld twice in Newport on the isle of wight, uk and they get you to open your bag and take off any baggy coats or jumpers they then proceed to check you for “camming” equipment” at which point I’m told that they wont allow me to take a happy meal in (for my 9yr old brother) and two milkshakes apparently because of “unpleasant odours” yet everyone loves there smell of there food??? I even offered to buy some popcorn and stuff from the food counter but was told that it still wasn’t acceptable!
I’m surprised security didn’t forcibly strip-search her right there in the lobby.
You never know what sort of contraband (or dangerous weapons) people might be hiding in their “body cavities”
Better safe than sorry
They should publish the theater’s name and address and have an online petition to boycott the place until it closes down.
Many theatres (including the one I used to work at) have a ridiculous policy that prohibits any food or drink to be brought in that was not purchased at the concession stand. Calling the police over it is just ludicrous though. There’s NO WAY the authorities are going to answer a 911 call over a bag of sweets. She did absolutely nothing illegal.
Things in my country (Portugal) still haven’t come this far, but if they ever do, then the first thing I’d do would be to ask if they are going to let me watch the movie or give me a refund, second would be to ask the Complaint book and make it oficial (If you complain about something there the government and the Consumer’s Association are legally bound to investigate it).
I agree with most people. That’s just alienating paying customers, as dropping them 5€ or 7€ per ticket isn’t enough. For Crying Out Loud
this is real life DRM! this is what you get for being a paying fucking customer!
Hey freetard…take a flyin leap off of the tallest building you can find…and by the way I am no teen…I am just tired of reading your bullcrap….go spew it somewhere else….like an mpaa site.
“TorrentFreak has been unsuccessful in finding any torrent sites that treat their users like this, but we’ll keep looking.”
The staff of bitmetv would
this means they haven’t seen TPB yet because a cam version has already been released
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4730920/He_s_Just_Not_That_Into_You_CAM_2009_XVID-PrisM(No_Rars)
Good thing this happened, Sue won’t go to the movies anymore and she’ll tell all her friends + more. Stick to watching movies at home, you’ll watch when you want what you want without looking at stupid advertisements and some ego-inflated baldheaded pricks like brandon {theaters}, fuckin’ muppets with phones and staff watching you with NVG. I haven’t been to the cinema for years because of this. Hopefully they all bankrupt soon as they loose more and more customers.
Who downloads CAMs anyway? Watching CAMs, especially one made in “public”, is ruining the whole experience. You are not DL the movie out of interest of actually watching it if you go for CAMs.
this is crazy…she should sue them ..
http://www.desip2p.blogspot.com
“TorrentFreak has been unsuccessful in finding any torrent sites that treat their users like this, but we’ll keep looking.”
LMFAO XD That was phaarrrrrrrnny.
time for our hacker brethren to trash their online ticket sales (say harry potter 6 opening weekend)
boycott cineworld facebook group >>
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12937457089
Nothing really seems wrong here and I’m not sure why article writer making it seem like they did.
She got caught trying to sneak food in, was lucky enough to be offered to still see the movie and get her food afterwards (she coulda been kicked out on the spot), but she refused “out of prinipal.” WTF principle? I’m allowed to break the rules? Lady is crazy, dunno what BS she or the article writer was thinking.
I’m not saying I’ve never snuck food/drink into a movie, but if I got caught I certainly wouldn’t bitch if they still let me watch the movie and let me get it back afterwards…
This is why movie theaters are empty anymore. You’re treated with such respect. Way to go movie theater!
@56
Finally someone with common sense and not just a “LMAO TPB FTW SUE THEM!!!” response.
I agree with most of you in that theaters are alienating their customers with the “bag searches” at the theater, but they have a simple rule that probably everyone who goes at the theater knows: “If You Want to Eat Candy While Watching the Movie, Buy It From Us” – and she broke that rule and makes a scene out of it? She’s no better than the old woman at the grocery store arguing with the cashier that she wants to use an expired coupon.
“Many theatres (including the one I used to work at) have a ridiculous policy that prohibits any food or drink to be brought in that was not purchased at the concession stand.”
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yes. theaters AND concert halls, AND stadiums, AND restaurants, AND bars, AND fairs, AND cafes, AND amusement parks have the EXACT SAME POLICY… ZOMG! OMIGOD! WE NEEDZ A REVOLUTION!
P.S: that “ridiculous policy” is what paid your checks when you worked at the theater.
“Calling the police over it is just ludicrous though. There’s NO WAY the authorities are going to answer a 911 call over a bag of sweets. She did absolutely nothing illegal.”
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no. they threatened to call the police because she refused to leave private property when asked. that’s trespassing and trespassing IS illegal. i suggest you stop commenting on things you know nothing about.
Well, you ALL embrace free market capitalism right?
PRAISE be to the corporation! Dare we ask? Is Walmart a PERSON?
Under the Article 32B Section 7, in the State of Arkansas against Walmart Stores Corporation, YES!
:D keep consuming humans! KEEP IT UP! Remember, Earth can ALWAYS take another for the team.
wtf are they doing
Maybe they should do a body cavity search to make sure no one is taking food in to their stupid theaters.
How f*cking retarded. I’ve never heard anything more ridiculous in my entire life.
Absolutely Mad! And for that reason im going to download this film and share it till i die. F*CK YOU CINEWORLD
Go Sue! Nice bit of negative press for Cineworld.
When I was a kid I got stopped at Odeon. I tried to bring in a bag of Macdonalds. Instead of giving it up I walked out of sight, ate the fries and stuffed the cheese burger in my pocket. Overall I would say it was a bad idea. In future I brought a record bag (man bag) to hide my goods.
I’ve also been stopped at Vue for carring a Sainsbury’s bag in.
it was probably communist chocolate
Sue…Come on aboard the “pirate ship” we got plenty of room for ya and you can bring all the friggin candies you want!!!! FTW TPB
Hell, a decent strip club is cheaper than a movie these days…
Same policy on the Camera equipment tho… ;)
Cineworld’s gay.
I guess that’s what you get for seeing shitastic movies like “He’s Just Not That Into You”.
I use to work part-time as an usher while I was in college….while it was a ‘policy’ that outside food could not be brought in, the minimum wage salary wasn’t worth getting into shouting matches about soda and candy. Customer service is non-existent once you leave the concession stand….hell, they already got your money.
I left right before the MPAA got really anal about camcorders. Can’t imagine what extra procedures these peasants have to do now.
BTW…I never saw pair of night vision goggles. I was looking forward to playing Splinter Cell too :(
Heck I walk in with a Grocery Bag and no one Bugs me ever.
lol funny shit
fuck the manager
This article is pointless other than to – as pointed out – fan the flames of the unthinking masses that seem to hang around here who can then reply LOL SUE FTW YAY THATS WHY I DOWNLOAD.
The cinema has every right to search people with their consent. People have every right to refuse the search and cannot be compelled by cinema staff to comply with the directive to be searched. If staff ignore this and continue anyway then they can be held liable for assault. If people don’t comply with searches they have no right to stay in the building if asked to leave.
The cinema has a right to refuse entry to anybody on whatever grounds they choose – entirely at their disgression: it’s private property, like your house. The fact that she is a “paying customer” is entirely irrelevant – although this poor attempt at a news article implies that this is a grevious cause of harm and entirely relevant.
By refusing to leave the cinema when asked “Sue” was trespassing and the manager had every right to call the police regarding this aspect of what happened in order to have her removed.
The cinema also has every right to forbid people to bring in their own food and drinks and insist that they purchase food & beverages inside the cinema only – just like a restaurant, a sporting stadium or any other piece of private property for that matter. Why the hell is TF acting as though because she has “principles” this makes it so that she should be allowed to carry food into the cinema? Ridiculous.
There is absolutely no grounds for anyone to sue here: people saying this are absolutely clueless – there is no grounds to award any compensation. Not seeing a film is not considered as something that causes damages.
If people don’t like this it’s simple: don’t go to the cinema and complain if you wish to let them know and perhaps it will change. Just don’t go to the cinema, it’s simple.
Downloading is better for most people, partly due to this set of circumstances obviously …but don’t go writing such ridiculous tripe articles such as this that are implying that this is “wrong”, “untoward” or in any way unlawful behaviour by the cinema: it is not.
The article is poorly presented and comes across as pure opinion piece and not news once again.
Please, why don’t you next write an article about how a restaurant refused to allow people to bring food in from outside, how a nightclub refused somebody entry becuase they were carrying their own alcohol and/or refused to be searched or how somebody was refused the right to eat food inside a train carriage (because they have “principles”) and lace it with as much innuendo and bile as you have in this article.
lol would they kick you out for wearing a shirt with a picture of a camcorder on it?
“Small specific Private Torrent sites (eg specific TV shows with closed private trackers) I would say are the closest thing we have to alienation”
Your an idiot – if you feel alienated that’s no ones problem but your own dude, your obviously just not willing to go through the motions of getting invites, knowing people and building ratios are you. And yet you feel alienated like a pathetic loser.
Why should anybody that starts any tracker have to let everybody in you dick – if you want to fine, but many other people prefer to keep the noobs and riffraff such as yourselves out and keep a high quality, high speed, fake free, ad-free site where everyone shares as they should. Way more than 50% of public tracker uses don’t share in spite of your whining that everyone should and it’s the “true spirit”, LOL.
“thank god for those people who join those private sites IN ORDER to release it to the open trackers they way bittorrent was meant to be baby!”
BT wasn’t meant to be anyway at all you dickhead – some people prefer higher quality sites which entails keeping out users and making people earn their place – people at private sites share, at most if you don’t share you get removed: unlike public sites where most people don’t share. Hell, many privtae site users pay their own money for seedboxes to benefit other members – public users would never do this.
“Also, some of these small time private sites can be really anal about things..sorry, not very scientific, but i think many people will understand what I mean if they’ve ever tried to join and STAY joined to some of these”
So you can’t follow the rules or meet requirements: your problem – guess what: most other members can follow the rules and meet requirements!
In short, stop your whining and use crappy public sites where you obviously belong.
@nubcakes
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but mronic
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dribble
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GET a life fart-tard
your not welcome here you schill
the
fact is that anyone being treated like that ANYWHERE almost would get a damn punch in the nose if there was no law to prevent it.
The fact is you moron that your a troll loving dick licking faggit that prolly bends over to your next director nightly,
and we have pictures
we put them on yoru hard drive check now quick before the gay police come and arrest you for being anal.
everyone get a tshirt with a cam corder on it
and go into the theatre
carry a brown paper bag
and wear sun glasses
when they say anything to you
say
“enter the matrix”
and the grounds to sue are as follows
harrassment , and improper terms of service , negligence, assault ( touching her ) , ( i ferget slander or liabel , which ever is spoken)
theft of the candy
and people dont bring food ot a restaurant they are going to eat at like they wouldnt bring a movie to a movie theatre
how about POORLY thought out nubnubwankes
as to a night club they are n th ebusiness actually of selling beer etc
just like hte movie is about selling you the viewing of a movie
youd not bring a movie to a theatre would ya?
just as you shouldnt bring booze to a night club as it dont make any money
just like you bringing a barbeque and such to a restaurrant
and then cooking your own food
UM ya ok NOOOOOOBCAKES
They wonder why people donwload movies, if you have to put up with this shit. After what driving to the movies paying for parking and then a 12 dollar movie ticket plus snacks. You would have to be stupid to do this if you can download it at home and watch it without wasting your time.
Cineworld uses (0870) prefix numbers, which are the UK equivalent of 900 numbers in the US, and thus are expensive per minute to call.
They use these premium-pay-per-minute phone numbers for their ticket booking, customer support and a help line for a rewards card.
https://www.cineworld.co.uk/contact
http://www.zyra.org.uk/0870.htm
Many civilized restaurants allow you to bring your own bottle of wine to have with your dinner. Oh, and your own cigarettes.
Also some restaurants allow you to bring your own un-cooked meat, especially if it’s something unusual, like game, or exotic fish, and allow their chef to prepare it for you. You still pay for the service, naturally.
When did theatres become food-stands?
The food in a theatre should remain added-value, not core value.
Please re-adjust your expectations.
CHRoNoSS: the truth annoys you obviously. It does that when people know it but are covering to push an agenda rather than reality. Way to accuse me of going on and on and then making 5 posts in a row. :P
Nice how you just made up a whole load of crap that wasn’t mentioned in the article (harrassment , and improper terms of service , negligence, assault ( touching her ) , ( i ferget slander or liabel , which ever is spoken) … theft.
LOL, “I ferget”, you sound like quite the expert on these matters.
Next time you reply you should keep a handle on those anger issues that plague you as you may make more sense instead of making up straws to clutch at in order to push your agenda home.
See you in sin mate :P (most people won’t get this but chronos)
“Many civilized restaurants allow you to bring your own bottle of wine to have with your dinner.”
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this is not the norm and even then, they charge a “corking fee”.
it sounds like you would rather cinemas allow people to bring in whatever noxious, stinky food they like, so long as they pay the appropriate fee.
as an unrelated aside to the mods, how do kids like “chronoss” have free reign to spam a bunch of embarrassing drivel while i have to wait for my messages to be approved? (and sometimes they never are, for no discernible or logical reason)
@79: “Many civilized restaurants allow you to bring your own bottle of wine to have with your dinner. Oh, and your own cigarettes.
Also some restaurants allow you to bring your own un-cooked meat, especially if it’s something unusual, like game, or exotic fish, and allow their chef to prepare it for you. You still pay for the service, naturally.”
Yes, true that – but many don’t and it’s entirely up to the establishment. You said “allow” – that’s precisly my point. If other reataurants don’t allow people to bring their own food – which many don’t – then what precisely does that have to do with justifying why cinemas should allow people to bring their own food & beverages onto their property?
“When did theatres become food-stands?
The food in a theatre should remain added-value, not core value.”
Er, don’t know where you’ve been but they’ve been “food stands” for a long, long time, probably since their inception.
“Please re-adjust your expectations.”
Expectations don’t mean anything – the cinema owners can still enforce not bringing in food and forcing you to buy it inside from the cinema. What “should” happen or how it “should” be, according to you or I, is irrelevant.
People will vote with their feet if they don’t like it and simply not attend the cinema – it still doesn’t change the fact that the cinema owners are doing nothing wrong and can do what they wish, within legal limits, whilst they are on their own property.
In the “everything movie industry is bad & evil” tone pushed in this article people are losing touch with reality – as I said, why not have a rant about people not being allowed food on buses, inside the drivers license renewal office and how you must be searched before entering some nightclubs?
Dumbest TF article ever.
This is why I am not going to the movie theater anymore.
SORRY!
This is shoddy stuff but the people who are claiming that legal action can be taken for harrassment, libel, theft, assault, terms of service etc are plainly completely in the dark about common law and property rights.
Cinema staff don’t actually have any rights to search any part of your property, including handbags etc… Although they can claim it as a policy that they will search some individuals for cameras and the like. But surely they would have to make it clear to you that this would happen BEFORE you buy your ticket?
“Reading this made me very angry at the Cinema and the staff there. They have no right to confiscate food off you like that, it’s just like treating a paying customer like a naughty child at school, who had their phone out and it gets confiscated. These people are not children, they are adults. It is the cinema staff who are behaving like children here. These people have PAID money to go and see this movie, they do NOT deserve to be treated like this.”
1. Getting angry abut this is moronic.
2. They have every right to confiscate food – it’s a condition of entry to the building.
3. If she didn’t want to be treated like a naughty child she should have followed the rules or not entered the building.
4. Everyones aware that she was an adult.
5. So what, if you pay money that gives you a right to not follow rules of the establishment.
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Typical mouth-frothing rubbish from some idiot who’se having anger management issues and hears the word “cinema” and gets a rush of blood to the head that prevents sense from prevailing.
Sheesh.
I agree with people that said this article is ridiculous… write about a nightclub not allowing entries to people without searches or not being allowed food in a diner unless you buy it there – oh wait, that would be stupid without the hatred of the industry that stops people thinking about his in the real world.
LOL nubcakes, rob & craig you guys & and me are the only ones still living in reality here :>
What a revelation the revels were
“Movie Goer Searched For Camming Kit, Threatened Over Candy”
…mobile phone with dvd video recording makes it through their professional security checks.
Seriously heres what once happend when I went to the cinema:
I had a pet rat in my pocket and the door people checked my pocket and found the rat, they told me “You’re not allowed to bring your own food to the cinema”.
I told them its not a food item, they replied “It is in this establishment”. I think thats what the special burger for $10 is made from.
Its a true story.
They wouldn’t let me bring my ticket stub in either in case I made a cigarette out of it but thats a whole different story.
you are not allowed to bring food into a movie theater from outside for sanitary/safety reasons, not just monetary…
but the theaters also have the right to search you for the safety of their patrons, AE contraband such as firearms, weapons, drugs.
as the responsible owners of a business its is not just there right as private property owners, but there responsibility.
as ANYONE who has entered a movie theater in a “compromised” part of town in the USA, will abide to having to pass threw a metal detector, or other security measures. though these measures are not directly implemented to prevent piracy, its is a minor befit, to the safety of the consumer.
BEFORE purchasing a ticket!
albeit this particular theater made a few mistakes, one regular, untrained staff should never give searches (or touch any patrons or there personal belongings), as too many personal and finical liabilities issues arise. secondly it should be conducted by a third party hired specifically for this task (and insured LLC) and should be handled outside the building (or equivalent causeway/voyeur) prior to entry, or purchase of tickets (tickets purchased online should inform customers of the chance they will be searched)
to the defense of the reason the cops were never called, to do so would have possibly caused more public uproar and possibly effected other movie patrons experience, or local police did not assign it enough a priority at the time to respond
people often wish to flame such events, as a Pirate for more years than most of you can piss without diapers, I am ashamed, you guys really need to growup and stop making us look bad, we are at pinnacle of rights (involving share@share alike practices) and actions such as I have seen in these post are appalling
its one thing to pirate, its another things to trespass, and as soon as she was asked to leave (paying or not) she was totally in the wrong, if we persist in this sort of thought we will be continue to be classified in the same groups as career criminals/murderers/and terrorist, we need to step our game up, educate our masses and conduct our pirate asses in the finest ways possible
and to every Phail who posted something about “who would download cams anyway” um…Obviously SOMEONE? DUH
yes movie theaters BLOW there prices are too high, I personally haven’t been to one since my children were born.
but do any of you have a screen 25 feet high? and room for several hundred friends,and food for all your friends, plus the kickass sounds??? (if so I am coming over!)
Are cinemas in US and UK so strict that you arent allowed to bring your own sweets and drinks? If so im glad i dont live there. In Norway you can bring whatever you want with you, well exept icecream, pizza, burgers etc
“you guys really need to growup and stop making us look bad, we are at pinnacle of rights (involving share@share alike practices) and actions such as I have seen in these post are appalling”
Couldn’t agree more – unfortunately many people here have a knee-jerk reaction to any mention of the movie or music industry and then anything is justified – it’s ridiculous. People seem to lose the ability to think and go off into la-la land, displaying the same tendencies as one does to hated personal enemies and making asses of themselves in the process. And yet they’ll still accuse the industry of operating a FUD and misinfomation campaign despite the fact that that’s effectively what they’re doing on a personal level.
Possibly it’s due to the ages of many people commenting here – low-middle teens are notorious for uncontrolled bursts of anger where they are “right” regardless of anything including reality in order to protect their own egos, who know?.
According to prizes of food AND especially drinks in multi-cinemas, no wonder half of my friends just smuggle everything inside. I dont say the should have prizes the same as the supermarket next to them, but IF you pay 3 times more for equivalent of 3* less amount of products (popcorn, coke) they can really no wonder about that happening.
They have right for having bigger prizes, well its buisness, okay.. BUT, THIS is not a buisness. This is incredible arrogance.
It is truth that movie industry is a hi-end customer alienating industry.
Love those ads “you wouldnt steal..”.. i BUY DVD and i MUST look to this ad, cant skip it. Oh-my-god, did they ever thouhgt about “THANK YOU FOR BUYING LEGAL PRODUCT, WE REALLY APRICIATE IT” instead of equivalent “if you are gona pirate this copy, we gona kill your family, rape your daughter and get you fired from work”….
.. buhehe. Well, piracy is maybe bad, but .. F***K THEM!
THE REAL STORY HERE IS THAT THEY HAVE REMOVED THE PEANUT REVELS!
BRING BACK THE PEANUT ONES!!!!!!!
Another cinema goer bites the dust, when will they learn
I wasnt aware cinema staff had the legal right to stop and search its customers? What next strip searches at the leisure center?
I just faced similar action 2 years ago by cinema hall staff, when i tried to enter there with a bag of Patato chips..& this is coming from INDIA!…well feels sad i didn’t exercise my rights & sue them there!
” I wasnt aware cinema staff had the legal right to stop and search its customers? What next strip searches at the leisure center?”
They have the legal right to ask for your consent which, if you give consent, entails them with the right to search you. They also have the right to refuse you entry.
things are pretty relaxed here in Ireland. I walked into a cinema in Dublin with a laptop in a laptop bag, you couldn’t mistake it for anything else, and noone said anything. Fortunately (for the cinema), I didn’t have a camera or a microphone on me, so they wouldn’t have had the legal right to confiscate it since I didn’t have recording equipment on me.
“I didn’t have a camera or a microphone on me, so they wouldn’t have had the legal right to confiscate”
They don’t have the right to confiscate anything from you in any case, they only have the right to refuse entry to you if you are carrying such items.
The cinema has no right to search or confiscate, but the conditions of entry state that you will submit to a search and that you will not take in your own food.
If these conditions are not made clear to the customer beforehand, then the cinema has possibly committed a criminal offence (under English law, descriptions of goods and services must be true). In this case she would have a right to compensation and she should bring her case to the small claims court.
By the way, no restaurant ever searches bags and people regularly enter restaurants with their supermarket shopping bags which contain food. Of course they have no intention of eating it in the restaurant. How do we know this woman intended to eat the Revels?
@98
Well, technically, the police would have had the right to confiscate if I did have a cam/mic on me.
Heres an idea, Im going to get my laptop, find a transparent bag, get a web cam, a mic and bring them in. Beforehand, though, I’ll carefully remove the laptop battery and if the staff say something, say I couldn’t possibly be doing anything wrong seeing as how I wouldn’t be able to even turn the laptop on.
Cineworlds website states in their FAQ’s
# Can I bring in my own food and drink?
Cineworld have a strict NO FOOD AND DRINK policy. We reserve the right to refuse customers entry into the screens with food or drink bought outside the premises. All our cinemas display the necessary signage, advising customers of this policy.
As a food operator we offer a wide range of drinks and snacks to satisfy our customers but also protect our cinema furnishings and customers clothing. Not all movie-goers are considerate of others in their snack choices and we have needed to set clearer guidelines on what is appropriate.
Have to laugh their food is selected to protect furnishings and clothing. So hotfudg, or caramel sauce on a Ben & Jerrys doesnt make things sticky.
Sometimes the best thing about this site is the feedback from the visitors… very entertaining (and informative).
Who needs the cinema when you have such great entertainment as TORRENTFREAK?
Rock on!
Well WTF do the MPAA expect? they sue, and lose more than just one customer there, for example, if i got sued by them, i would never buy another dvd or cd, none of my very large family would every buy one again, nor any of my friends, so for every lawsuit, i figure they alienate 100 people. Therefore they are in their DEATH THROES….let em die
Hahaha, poor NubCakes.
You have to write comments agreeing with yourself using the name Amanda just to make it look like anybody supports your mindless cheerleading for an immoral and greedy cinema industry.
What happened at Cineworld was simple. After a bag search for camming equipment(which can only be described as completely senseless as the movie has already been cammed), the manager threatened to call the police on a woman over a small packet of candy.
It doesn’t matter that there are rules against bringing outside food into a movie theater, because that doesn’t stop what happened to ‘Sue’ from being outrageously stupid – infact, the reality is that rules themselves are outrageously stupid.
The harder you try to justify it, the more you look like an out of touch lunatic.
And speaking of out of touch, what’s this “people are covering to push an agenda” stuff you’re babbling about? Who are these mysterious people? And what’s their agenda? Come on, Tinfoil. Let’s hear the conspiracy theory.
It’s not like you have any credibility to lose.
*the rules themselves ….
welcome to BT Sue & enjoy :0)
@110 DJ Sketch@1337x.net
what are you talking about? This article is about a cinema, a completely seperate entity to the MPAA. The MPAA have nothing to do with the cinema.
Maybe they have a right to refuse entry to people bringing in food, but that doesn’t make it a good idea to do so. I think this article is more about how unwise the theater owners are treating their customers at a time when they complain about lack of customers than about the rights for theater owners to be idiots.
I’ve never been searched in a theater and I wouldn’t *ever* enter in a theater if they want to search me.
If I go to a theater, that’s because I want to have fun. If the security guy wants to look in my pockets, the fun is over, so I better spend my time and money elsewhere.
Should we start pirating food and drinks in the theaters? Instead of cam equipment lets bring in food and drinks and sell it ( or share it for free ) to other movie goers.
This is real life DRM.
Next time I go I will sneak in some sweets + coke for others and distribute it for free!
Wanna see your revels in torrent. hungrily expecting :)
@ 41 freetard
“this is the EXACT SAME RESPONSE she would have gotten at any sporting event, concert, fair, restaurant, bar, or theme park. but go ahead ernesto, keep trying to fan the flames of your fifteen year old constituency making it sound like this kind of thing is endemic to cinemas; it’s not like you have any journalistic integrity to uphold…”
You truly are a retard..
Please tell me what restaurant, bar, theme park, fair, concert searches you..
Your obviously wearing your fail shoes, please kill yourself your wasting my oxygen. You have to be the biggest idiot on here.
Ive never been searched at any one of those and I frequent them many times.
Keep up your arguments that make zero sense.. your not making any ground and you just make yourself look like a 15 year f*cking moron, go ask mom to change your diaper loser.
Its hilarious how a small group of people here think they ‘live in reality’.. and see everyone else here as completely crazy.
Let me break it down
1. If you don’t agree, leave.
2. You are in no way smarter or more in tune with reality in any shape or form. Claiming that you are and downing others for having a different opinion only makes you look foolish.
If they tell you whats going to happen ahead of time then its fair game, purchasing a ticket you agree to that. Otherwise everything they did is 100% wrong.
They either need to make it a standard or leave people alone, this little sneaky way of trying to search people and do whatever they want is wrong. If the deal is your going to get searched, that needs to be very clear ahead of time so the consumer doesn’t find himself in a situation like this. If a giant sign that says YOU MAY/WILL BE SEARCHED FOR XXXX then so be it.
But lets be honest, there not going to do that because people would avoid that cinema.
unless they can prove she was gonna eat the candy in duration of the movie confiscating it is unconstitutional
Special costly bags of Revels have tiny cameras in the coffee flavoured revel apparently.
@110 “Well WTF do the MPAA expect?”
What exactly have the MPAA done wrong here?
I’m pretty sure they didn’t set the rules about people bringing food and drink into cinemas…
As far as I can see, the MPAA is not involved in any way with this case, so any outrage/anger/whatever should be directed at the people responsible instead. Like Cineworld :).
Personally, I don’t like how they charge extortionate prices for food and drink, and it doesn’t make me inclined to go to the cinema more often, but if they want to do it then that is their choice. If I don’t like their service, I won’t use it, but I’m not going to try to force them to offer a different service.
They may make more money by stopping people from eating their own food, or they may make less. Regardless, it’s their decision to make.
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@58: Oh and I suppose it’s also OK that they label you as a potential criminal right away and thereby search your belongings without a valid “search warrant” and invade your privacy by staring at you with night vision goggles while you try and enjoy the film. After all, it’s their “rules” which according to you are perfectly acceptable no matter what. Whose to say Sue was even intentionally “sneaking” anything into the theatre. Some people just like to carry sweets or small snacks with them in case they are on the road for a while and get hungry. They should NOT have to remove them every time they enter the mere movie theatre. For all we know, Sue might have bought popcorn and a drink anyway and was not in fact planning on eating the sweets.
The point being made is how certain rules are seriously sacrificing the customer’s experience in the theatre (or just outright overblown) leading to a loss of customers (like Sue). There are probably several other similar cases. Overall, the experience is deteriorating more and more.
Lol smart last sentence. These guys wonder why people would rather download and watch films at home than go to the cinema, i have been searched on many occasions at the cinema, they use “recording devices” as a excuse to search your belongings but its just a ploy to confiscate your food in desperation that you will buy some of their food, and for £8 for a coke and popcorn they have no chance.
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Here in the US of A the price of a ticket and food is INCREDIBLY expensive.. you can go to a theme park for roughly the same price for the whole day.
I cant count all the reasons why I don’t go to cinemas.. its horrible..
Seriously do the math and see how long it takes you to save money by pirating and not going to the movies to save up for a large LCD/projector VS going to the movies.. its really not that hard at ALL.
For two people to go the movies and grab snacks drinks, it costs about $50. So if you go once a week it costs $200 a month. Don’t go to the movies for 3 months and there’s your $600 you can easily buy a 40′+ LCD or projector. Cinema FTL Pirates FTW
@123: Yeah the MPAA has nothing to do with the food. Just the “searching” people’s belongings (which by the way is what led to the candy being discovered in the first place) and using nightvision goggles to detect cammers. Everything else would be the local theatre’s policy. However, I’m pretty sure that the food rule was really geared to those who stop by at a local restaurant, purchase a fairly large meal (and possibly alcohol with it), and then try and bring THAT into the theatre bypassing the high food prices yet still leaving their mess for the theatre staff to clean up. THAT is the true purpose of the policy. There really should be a “limit” in place as to what can be brought in as I see no reason to impose a “zero tolerance” perspective for no good reason.
oh the joys of the cinema
Notice it was 2 girls the asshole security guards picked on, bet the slack f…… target girls as much as they can,easy way out like 98% of all security guards every-where,sucks.
The first time any movie theatre asks to look in my handbag I’ll be asking where their warrant is.
A shopping bag or backpack – sure, have a look. My private handbag? Nope.
Don’t bother asking me to remove a sweater because it’s baggy either, cause I won’t. And don’t touch me either.
I don’t have an issue with the sweets though. I wouldn’t bring them, unless it was hot popcorn with nice warm melted butter on it. Expensive in the theatre? Yes, sure, but that’s what makes “going to the movies” part of what it is. For us, it’s not just watching a movie (we do that at home)…it the experience. Though I’ll admit, todays theatres aren’t much like they used to be…small, cramped, mostly ugly, with uncomfortable seats.
@22 learn to type
Cine World is utter carp
I don’t buy into the rubbish that they make much money through food sales any, who the hell want to buy over priced rubbish anyway.
They can’t be loosing too much money, they let there their staff let in there friend for free. Just go up and if your name is on the list you get in. sometimes I’ve even seen staff pulls their friends out of line and just let them in.
So in reality if their loosing too much money on their food why let people in for free.
Right next to my local cineworld is Tesco so that’s were all their food money goes.
Quick note letting people (friends) in for free is apparently company police, though I do think they have a limit.
Cinema workers:
“Why we don’t have more costumers anymore? I really don’t understand, we increased the tickets price to get more profit, we exagerated with security measures and we have the new 2.05 sound system, and we even ask more money for smaller popcorn bags! I really can’t understand this…”
Another day at the cinema:
“Mam, we have to search you for any type of recording device.”
“Shure, go ahead”
“Ok, terrorist bombs are not part of illegal devices BUT you can record the movie with your mind, we are sorry but we have to confiscate your eyes”
Then they wonder why we dont go to cinema as much as we did before, bunch of tards, thinking that they are king of something inside theyr cinema. They will go down if they dont improve everything that is wrong, they need to do things that people like if they want us to go, not things that THEY like…
“Here in the US of A the price of a ticket and food is INCREDIBLY expensive.. you can go to a theme park for roughly the same price for the whole day.”
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…where you would pay the exact same inflated prices on food.
fail.
This has been around for as long as I can remember. Not being allowed to bring ‘outside’ food or drink into a theater.
However, I think the more pressing matter is that the paying customer was searched for ‘cam’ equipment when the candy was found. To me, being searched at a theater is drawing the line.
On a lighter note, last time I was at the El’Capitan Theater in Hollywood they not only let me bring in my digital ’still’ camera (without searching my bag) but also encouraged it. Their policy was no video cameras but still was allowed.
Yet, bottom line is, if a theater decided to search me after I paid for a ticket, you better bet your ass that I would demand a refund and contact head office. No movie or anything for that matter is worth being demoralized into a criminal.
Said Luke Roberts, a spokesman for Cineworld: “Cineworld terms and conditions outline that all food consumed on the premises must be purchased at one of our concessions, which is in line with most cinema chain policies. We do offer a full refund if a customer chooses to leave.”
Hmmm if they don’t let you in you can’t consume the products in their theatre, if you don’t consume them then you are not in breach of their T&Cs! Just having them on you is not in breach of their T&Cs, ergo they can’t steal them off you!
#9
“When it costs $25 USD for 2 people to see a movie and get a medium popcorn, it’s a wonder anyone can even afford to go.”
Wow, that’s cheap. Here in Denmark that would be just around $40.
“unless they can prove she was gonna eat the candy in duration of the movie confiscating it is unconstitutional”
This is happening in england. Are you high? Noone there cares about the US Constitution.
My only problem with this is that she wasn’t told that the search was for outside food, but rather for camming equipment. It is their theater, their policy, but if their search included looking for food, then she should have been told that ahead of time. Assuming that they were willing to give her a refund, and because they also offered her it’s return after the movie had she choose to go to the movies, I see no (legal) problems with refusing her entry other than the fact that they did not outline that before the search that looking for food was part of the intent of the search.
Unfortunately, the MPAA heard of this and took matters into their own hands… Sue was never heard from again.
A another good reason to just stay at home in your underwear and watch a came rip :)
That doesn’t surprise me. Cinemas charge extortionate amounts for food and drink and then refuse to let you take in your own. I do recall, however, smuggling a mcdonalds in under my jumper, and, despite my marvelous lack of subtlety, the staff themselves were cool about it, even though they clearly new that, according to cinema policy, they shouldn’t be.
we look for camming equip and take your candy.
we look for child pornographers and take your broadband.
we look for terrorists and take your router
we look for copyright infringement and take your ipod.
Its just more MPAA/IFPI willy horton WMD bullshit.
Guys, last night I went into a Home Depot with my dog. An employee came up to me and said I had to leave because they had a policy stating no dogs are allowed in the store.
I am outraged and have already started the procedures in order to sue Home Depot. I will let you all know how it goes.
“I don’t buy into the rubbish that they make much money through food sales any, who the hell want to buy over priced rubbish anyway.”
I worked for cineworld when i was a student, the film distributers basically took all the money.
“They can’t be loosing too much money, they let there their staff let in there friend for free. Just go up and if your name is on the list you get in. sometimes I’ve even seen staff pulls their friends out of line and just let them in.”
Staff get a card after 3 months that allows them to get 2 free tickets aday, they need be present with the friend, its easy to abuse thou we just got comps put through for the rest off the ppl we where with, but we would get sacked if caught out, i still get in for free cause one of the guys i used to work with went on to be a manager at the cinema we worked.
“So in reality if their loosing too much money on their food why let people in for free.”
Cause they get money from the food, if u just got in for free then u could be more inclined to purchase more stuff.
Right next to my local cineworld is Tesco so that’s were all their food money goes.
“Quick note letting people (friends) in for free is apparently company police, though I do think they have a limit.”
Company policy was u could bring a friend with u but u had to be there and have u cinepass.
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Btw i don’t like cineworld as a company, it was a cool place to work we ripped the piss out of that place, also there unlimited card sucks balls, well the unlimited customers, there goons – such cunts. they see like 20 movies a month for like £10 (or what ever it is now) and they think they can be cunts too the staff who only want to get beer money while there studying at uni. (maybe a little ranting here but hey who dont like to moan about old jobs they had as students)
“TorrentFreak has been unsuccessful in finding any torrent sites that treat their users like this, but we’ll keep looking.”
Take it you were never a member of OiNK then?
Hm mm, I am 44 years old, been smuggling my own candy plus snacks in theaters since I was 7 or 8 years old. So she got caught. IF they would just lower the price of food this wouldn’t happen as much. Occasionally when I feel rich I will buy the occasional $5.00 soft drink. Interestingly some theaters allow refills, some don’t. The point is their prices on food are not honest. Its sheer thievery what some places charge. $7.50 for a hot dog? Gimme a break! Smuggling in food to combat these thieves should be no sin and no shame.
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One trip to the Odeon with yer pals plus a strip search for good measure – Priceless, literally, because your not going to get return customers that way Mr “I’m being put out of business by these nasty Pirates”
@145: Not all theatre staff take their job so seriously they follow the policies to a dime (but some do). When they don’t though, they will be far more reasonable with you (especially since they aren’t exactly highly paid so why should they go out of their way to ensure maximum profits for the theatre to which they will never see a dime of it?)
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Cams suck goats.
Id rather have the candy.
@11 (or Any Mancs)
if you want cheaper cinema tickets, go to the AMC at deansgate,
hardly any annoying kids around, plus it not at the bloody trafford centre either
The last time I went to a movie theatre was to see “An Inconvenient Truth”. Someone else bought the ticket for me. I wouldn’t have gone otherwise. That was 3 years ago.
The last time before that was in the mid 80’s.
Last night, I watched “Wall-e” on my computer, down-loaded using a torrent, smoked when I wanted to, had a beer or two, paused it to take a leak and still didn’t pay for it or risk being searched.
I needed to see “A. I. T.”, shoulda waited till I found TPB. And I’m an active Democrat!
Of course everyone knows that the L.A. acronymns are republicans.
Wanna know why Democrats get laid more often than Republicans?
Who ever heard of getting a piece of elephant?
Something I think a lot of you are forgetting or maybe don’t realize, is that movie theatres make crap from ticket sales, the only money they make is from refreshments. I am not defending their actions per se, but the MP** is the enemy here
At least in America it’s illegal for them to search your shit. And it’s illegal for a police officer to search your things without a warrant, and I highly doubt a judge will issue a warrant to search someone’s purse in a movie theater for a camcorder.
“Last night, I watched “Wall-e” on my computer, down-loaded using a torrent…And I’m an active Democrat!”
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makes sense. democrats are all about freeloading malcontents getting something for nothing. also, you could have just as easily went and rented “wall-e” from your local video store and still enjoyed all the benefits you cited plus you’d have the satisfaction of not being a cheap POS who thinks the world “owes” him free entertainment that cost millions to make.
“At least in America it’s illegal for them to search your shit. And it’s illegal for a police officer to search your things without a warrant, and I highly doubt a judge will issue a warrant to search someone’s purse in a movie theater for a camcorder.”
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it would be illegal if they forcibly searched you, but that’s completely irrelevant to this discussion. if you agree to be searched, it’s not illegal and if you refuse to be searched, they can legally refund your money and kick you out. you should stop asserting things out of ignorance.
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Look at Cinemageddon, they treat their customers like shit.
This is truly disturbing…
M&Ms are sooo much better than RevFails… <3
I know it’s their stinkin policy but I really think it should be illegal to discriminate a customer for bringing their own food and drinks into theaters.
Hearing this makes me wanna pirate till they lose everything because it creates a monopoly where movie theaters can charge whatever the hell they like because we can’t bring a competitors food/drink.
IT”S DISGUSTING!
I always or almost always sneak drinks and food into movie theaters and my mom is a cheapy and food in theaters is so expensive probably more then Disney because disnye has competition in their theme park, and also I’m clasified by Social Security as being Autistic and a Type 1 diabetic so we carry candy sometimes for low blood sugar.
If they do that to me I might threaten criminal prosecution against their staff for discriminating somebody with a health problem, I may even curse at them if they tell me to hand over my candy or drinks, I would tell them that they are fags.
In fact they get people hungry and thirsty by using subliminal advertising, I outta sue them and curse them to death.
I hope everybody stops buying movie theater food and drinks, until they charge their d*mn policy.
Dang, where’s Michael Moore when you need him? :)
wtf? Camming equipment is illegal? What is this world coming to?! sue them Sue.
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