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Topic: Stolen Standee
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Randy Stankey
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Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 04-28-2012 09:49 PM
I would say that it's not strictly about the value of the item stolen.
Since the stolen item is meant for advertising, the thief has deprived the theater owner of his opportunity to promote that movie.
Theoretically, the thief could be forced to pay back lost revenue because the theater couldn't advertise... assuming the lawyers can come up with a plausible way to calculate that revenue. That would likely be a bone of contention between both sides.
However, a smart attorney might use that to play "carrot and stick." Say he calculates lost revenue at $5,000. (Total guess.) The defendant's lawyer would, no doubt, contest that figure. The plaintiff's lawyer would offer to drop the demand for money in exchange for a guilty plea to theft and vandalism.
Both sides would probably know that the $5,000 will never stick, BUT the defendant's attorney knows it will take time to argue that point in court. Time the defendant will have to pay for.
When faced with the prospect of paying another $1,000 in lawyer fees, which do you think the thief is going to pick? A guilty plea or an empty bank account?
It doesn't matter what the standee actually cost or who paid for it. It all matters how the game is played. ![[evil]](graemlins/evil.gif)
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Christopher Crouch
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 128
From: Holywood, ca, usa
Registered: May 2006
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posted 05-01-2012 05:50 AM
quote: Chris Mosel
The cops are dragging their feet. They acknowledge that the guy has several instances of "pranks"(their word) like this on his record.
Unfortunately, they likely aren't taking the matter all that seriously. Over the years, I've had standees/posters stolen or destroyed (often damaging fixtures in the process), candy cases broken in to, and people prying open back doors to sneak in. Yet, time and time again, I've faced the same "pranks" excuses, followed by next to no follow through. For whatever reason, movie theatres don't seem to garner the same respect, from law enforcement, that retail stores receive. Shoplift a pack of gum and the police will be all over the person; break a poster case open and steal a poster, those same officers tend to write it off as harmless mischief. If you want to see any notable action taken, you will need to press the issue yourself.
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Frank Angel
Film God
Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 05-01-2012 08:25 PM
"Whoooa...Marty said BLOWS!!!....I mean like 400 of them!!! heheheh. So does he like, get then all at once, dude? ROTFLMAO"
THAT's the mentality you will be dealing with on Facebook -- the modern day Tower of Babble....the Land of Imbecillia. You can't embarrass or humiliate an imbecile into doing good. If anything, it will just encourage him, AND might even inspire copy-cat standee thieves or standee mutilators. Ever notice how boys (and some male adults) simply cannot resist the drive to draw genitalia on standee images, ESPECIALLY if they are life-size? It's the Got-Magic-Marker...Hand-Can't-Stop-Drawing-Penises-On-Standee-People syndrome. And there is no cure.
Thing is, in all seriousness, you have to understand what cops deal with day in and day out, murder, rape, all kinds of serious hurt and mayhem, and then here comes a theatre manager demanding they divert limited resources to capture a cardboard cut-out thief.
Sure, the theatre manager is going to be upset, but so is the guy in the jean store where a kid robbed a standee of some hottie model hawking thong swimsuits to do what he will with it in his room (don't even go there).
Does anyone think the brass are going to take police who are investigating SERIOUS crime off their cases to find the thong standee thief? Is it fair that they have to triage serious crime against lesser crimes or even look the other way and the smaller ones? No, but it's the way it is. Some things in business have to be chalked up to the price of doing business, and you make adjustments as best you can to tweak your own security and personnel patrols to discourage such activity....just like department stores and every other business have to do.
Then again, if it were a DISNEY standee, it would be over in a minute -- they'd send a whole team of Rodent Lawyers to descend and probably first off, have the theatre manager arrested because he was the one who allowed their copyright images to be pirated; next they’d arrest the Assistant Mngr because…well….just because. Now as for standee thieving kid, should they ever find him and his pirate harboring family...let's just say he'd better stay deep in hiding. His relatives probably won’t fair too well either. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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