<p>Even if people were told not to text, they were probably still eating and making noise with silverware and dishes etc.</p>
<p>How can you see the food on your plate in a dark movie theater? You could end up cutting off your thumb while cutting your steak with a knife.</p>
<p>People who plead to lesser offenses aren’t always guilty of the crime or any crime they’ve been accused of. They may plead because of the cost of defending themselves or the risk of being found guilty. I’ve learned this from a surgeon colleague who refused a plea and yet was found guilty of a crime he didn’t commit. $150,000 legal fees. Eventually, he had to sue the “victims” in civil court where he easily won. The lesson from this was he should have plead guilty to the lesser crime he didn’t commit. Many examples can be found through the Innocence Project. 312 innocent individuals who were initially found guilty. So, let the 10 guilty people free instead of imprisoning the one innocent person. That innocent person could be me.</p>
<p>The little girl has not been told that her daddy is dead. (Is the D age 2 or 3?)</p>
<p>*Nicole Oulson told a national television audience today that she wants Curtis Reeves, the man accused of killing her husband in a Wesley Chapel movie theater, to spend the rest of his life in prison.</p>
<p>“He brought an unfair life sentence to me to have to raise my daughter alone, to have to live without the love of my life, for my daughter to grow up without her daddy by her side for graduation and marriage,” Oulson said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “It was so unnecessary, it was for no reason. So I want him behind bars and to be punished for his senseless act.</p>
<p>Oulson’s husband, Chad, was fatally shot Jan. 13 after a confrontation when Reeves asked him to stop texting, deputies said. Friends said Chad Oulson was checking on his 22-month-daughter, who was ill and with a babysitter. Nicole Oulson’s finger was wounded in the shooting…</p>
<p>Oulson said she is trying to stay strong for her daughter, Alexis, who isn’t aware her father is dead but notices he isn’t around at bedtime.*</p>
<p><a href=“http://tbo.com/pasco-county/widow-tells-gma-put-theater-shooter-in-prison-for-life-20140123/[/url]”>http://tbo.com/pasco-county/widow-tells-gma-put-theater-shooter-in-prison-for-life-20140123/</a></p>
<p>If they were in one of those upscale dining theaters, then this cop was really out to lunch. There’s going to be noises/distractions associated with a restaurant going on…texting would be the least distracting. </p>
<p>We have a “lesser one” near us. The food is served outside, but “adult beverages” are drank inside the theater, so everyone has to be over 21 in those theaters. </p>
<p>Now, I really do wonder if this guy was intoxicated.</p>
<p>I agree: a person intent on a distraction-free movie theater experience would not go to a bistro. Based on his previous behavior, it sounds as if he went there looking to pick a fight.</p>
<p>@lizard It’s like any other “dinner and a movie” theatre. It has dim lighting. Generally, there are small, dim lights on the table that allows you to see your food but does not detract from the movie. </p>
<p>Looks like Reeves woke up on the wrong side of the bed.</p>
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This is so heartbreaking.</p>
<p>*Generally, there are small, dim lights on the table that allows you to see your food but does not detract from the movie. *</p>
<p>Right. I can’t imagine that with all of those dim lights dotted around the theater that a cell phone’s light would be that much more distracting.</p>
<p>The glare of smartphone screens are distracting. Enough that someone wrote an article on how to minimize the problem [5</a> Non-Annoying Ways to Check Your Smartphone in the Movie Theater](<a href=“http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-non-annoying-ways-check-smartphone-movie-theater/]5”>5 Non-Annoying Ways to Check Your Smartphone in the Movie Theater)</p>
<p>The problem with saying “let the 10 guilty go free to save 1 innocent” is you never know who the guilty and innocent actually are, even sometimes in hindsight and even sometimes in notorious cases. The system is set up to put leverage on people to plead guilty. They don’t have to. They can have an attorney appointed and not pay for one. </p>
<p>And keep in mind that criminals commit a number of crimes for each one they get caught for. There is not much data about this. I saw a London study that estimated 26 burglaries for every burglar arrested, but that’s an average, meaning they caught some stupid ones fast and others never. TV makes it all look so simple.</p>
<p>That said, when prosecutors turn out to have framed someone, I think the law should punish heavily - with no statute of limitations - because that person has misused the power of the state against an individual. I think that’s terrible.</p>
<p>In a regular, dark movie theater, the light from a smart phone is distracting. In the bistro theaters near me, you wouldn’t notice it. At least I wouldn’t notice it, and I’m pretty easily distracted. There are soft lights at each seat so you can sea your food or even read a menu, and there are servers taking orders and delivering food and drinks. We’ve been to 2 movies in 2 different theaters like this in the last month.</p>
<p>It’s very hard for me to think that the texting or lighting was a problem. I know we’re not supposed to rush to judgement, but it sounds a lot more like someone getting upset that the guy in front of him was BREAKING THE RULES and not respecting authority.</p>
<p>911 tape…really hard listening to this knowing Chad died.</p>
<p>[Listen</a> now: Witnesses describe Pasco movie theater shooting scene to 911 dispatchers | Tampa Bay Times](<a href=“http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/pasco-authorities-release-911-tape-from-theater-shooting/2162552]Listen”>911 recording captures Pasco movie theater chaos)</p>
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<p>And if this is the case…and I agree it’s a strong possibility…then the shooter’s has an overinflated sense of his authority with the unmerited entitlement to go with it. </p>
<p>Not to mention rank hypocrisy considering HE WAS ALSO BREAKING THE RULES by bringing his gun to a theater with a NO WEAPONS policy. And according to Federal CCW laws as applied to retired cops I linked to in post #100, his status as retired cop DOESN’T EXEMPT HIM FROM THAT POLICY.</p>
<p>Moreover, however annoying someone’s texting in theaters may be…and I agree it’s annoying…it doesn’t warrant getting so riled up to order others about or in this case, pulling out a gun and killing the offending party.</p>
<p>What was Reeves doing after he shot the victim?</p>
<p>I think someone heard him say “I’m going to Disneyworld”.</p>
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<p>If he’s convicted, he may have plenty of opportunity to meet and interact with some of Mickey’s and Minnie’s relatives in prison.</p>
<p>Oh, heh heh. Almost forgot to laugh…</p>
<p>Do you understand the reference, especially around superbowl time, Cobrat??</p>
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<p>I did. I just chose to add my little joke into the mix. Any problems???</p>
<p>Oh–that was supposed to be funny.</p>