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Topic: What would you ban in your movie theatre?
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Bernard Tonks
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From: Cranleigh, Surrey, England
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 11-06-2001 07:28 AM
Well I was the first in the area to have a no smoking cinema. I also tried to stop selling popcorn but that proved to be unpopular.A projectionist friend touring Australia sent me this postcard saying, ‘You’ll be glad that your patrons only throw popcorn on the floor. Here they blow up the cinema if they don’t like the film!’ DRIVE-IN WARNING SIGN- COOBER PEDY, South Australia.
This was once shown on the screen twice each night at the Coober Pedy drive-in. Local miners who drove their work vehicles to the movies needed the reminder. 
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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99
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posted 11-06-2001 12:09 PM
I don't know about North Carolina, but in Texas the rules are very clear and NO you could NOT evict someone with a permit to carry a gun with the signs that UA is using just because he has it. The customer would have to start waving the gun around or fire a couple of rounds before he could be considered a threat for you to have legal grounds to remove him. This I am absolutely 100% positive on.The signs must be at every entrance and exit into and out of the theater and they are MASSIVELY HUGE. They must carry the entire section of the law code on concealed firearms and the lettering must be a minimum of 1 inch tall letters on 100% contrasting background (white letters on black, or black letters on white). This makes for a ludicrously huge sign, almost the size of a movie poster. I've yet to see a place of business actually post the real signs. Schools, bars, government buildings and such are automatically excluded from having to post the notation, but anyone else (including any theater) must post the real thing or it's not valid. Also if even just one single entrance into the building (rooftops excluded) does not have the sign prominently displayed (even if it is an employee entrance in the back or an "exit only" door), then the theater does not have the right to evict someone for carrying a gun. Since UA is still using these signs and no manager for UA I've met realizes the actual law on this, I think it's safe to assume there has not been an instance of where a manger tried to evict a patron who was packing. Of course the first time someone gets evicted for carrying a gun (assuming the guy has a license), there is bound to be an interesting lawsuit. It's kind of along the same lines as a manager firing an employee the day after the employee refuses to have sex with the manager. Can't do it.
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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99
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posted 11-07-2001 03:18 AM
In general I would agree with your statement Jim, but in this case there can be legal reprocussions in Texas for kicking someone out for carrying a concealed gun with a permit. People also have rights, including not being discriminated against. Sure you can probably kick someone out for no reason whatsoever, but once you find out that someone has a gun in your theater, if you kick him out you are just setting yourself up for a problem. Do you really want some guy with a loaded weapon, that he had every right to bring into that theater (assuming he has a license), angry at you? That's pretty damned stupid to me and is putting not only yourself at risk, but your employees and the safety of the other customers. Besides, people with concealed carry licenses are not the problem, it's the thugs that are carrying without a permit that are going to cause trouble. If some thug went crazy in your theater lobby and started shooting people's heads off and there was another person witnessing this with a concealed gun and carry license, I believe that person is actually obligated to protect the people around him. (Not 100% sure on that, but pretty sure.) While of course that would now mean that there are two guns firing, at least one of them would be trying to stop the first guy before he hurt or killed any more people.Crazy isn't it? By the way Jim, you have erased all of your info from your profile. Who are you hiding from?
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