Regal Cinemas starts checking bags ...
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888
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What you don't want to take off your shoes, belt, wallet etc and step through a metal detector to go to a movie?
/s obviously.
Megalosaro
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This is the problem with our society. One or two random incidences, and people act like it's a systemic outbreak.
Not sure what to think about that. I assume it's going to be the regular cinema staff doing it, which means it'll probably be half-assed. As was said above, illusion.
Makes me glad I live in a place where I don't have to worry about being shot in the cinema AND I'm allowed to take my own food in.
Makes me glad I live in a place where I don't have to worry about being shot in the cinema AND I'm allowed to take my own food in.
Wouldn't let him in with a bag even though they had used the subway and couldn't store them. Change wasn't announced on the site he bought tickets from.
If movie theaters want to lose me as a customer, so be it.
Shining Sunshine
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I wonder if they will allow sneaking food now that they're doing this.
I love sneaking in food since it's always things they don't have.
I love sneaking in food since it's always things they don't have.
Ricerocket
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Only thing I smuggle in my GF's bag is boba drink or a snack. Fucking robbery for what they charge for anything.
br0ken_shad0w
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Well gun nuts wanted their lenient gun control/rights so they better like more metal detectors and security checks. You know instead of actually fixing the real issue....
I went to a movie recently, in Boston.
Some kid left a backpack on the seat next to me and tried to run off. Before he left, I grabbed him and told him to take his bag with him. He declined, so I pushed him to the ground and he grabbed it and ran out.
That's the shit I deal with seeing fucking Chappie.
BronsonLee
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Regal's done lots of dumb shit that other chains haven't, though. And the rise of places like Movie Tavern/Alamo Drafthouse would be stunted by something like this
Then eat before you go. Do you bring food into a symphony concert?
Also, my issue is not with sneaking things in, I've done it. It's with people getting pissed about it and making a scene. You broke a rule, let it go. I worked at a theatre and it was a pain in the ass.
This makes no sense. If a guy wants to shoot up a theatre, he'll kill the security guards then walk into the theatre and kill people.
If a guy wants to use a plane as a missile, he can't just kill a security guard and step immediately onto a plane. The security gate and boarding are super far apart.
If a guy wants to use a plane as a missile, he can't just kill a security guard and step immediately onto a plane. The security gate and boarding are super far apart.
I read the beginning of this in the voice of the Dos Equis guy, and then half way realized that was not what you were trying to do :/
Cool. Don't bring a bag to a theater then!
A symphony concert is not a movie. There's not a expectation of people eating and drinking stuff like going to a movie. Horrible example.
Yep. Was a single one of these shootings because they brought in a bag with a gun in it? No.
This is entirely a way to make people feel safe, get them to not bring outside food in, and to attempt an increase in sales. Using safety as a way to get people to do something has been working for years.
I'm three times a week at worst. I see a lot of stupid shit.
BOOTY ME$$IAH
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I work at a Regal theater in Texas, basically all they have us do is ask to open bags and take a peek inside, 90% of the time the coworkers don't even really check the bags so. We also installed security locks on the theater exit doors, so after 30 seconds of being open the alarm in the staff room goes off to go check and see what's going on.
CadetMahoney
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school leaver minimum wage clerk be like "extra large snacks in your trousers or are you just glad to see me."
Amentallica
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Food isn't sold to be eaten at a symphony concert. The analogy isn't appropriate. If you can purchase the same items or better for much less elsewhere then why not? And these are snacks we are talking about, not full blown meals.
Just saw your edit. Yes, getting pissy when you're caught is silly.
888
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One of my employees and I were at Mc Donalds one day. Huge group of kinds came in and sat across from us. They all got up but left a random backpack on the floor in the middle of the walk way. The guy I was with spent 6 years in Afghanistan. He said shit like that freaked him out, so we got up and left. Never know anymore.
But I don't get it. If a gunman wanted to shoot up a theatre, he'd do it whether they check his bags or not. It's not like when the movie starts the theatre flies thousands of feet into the air and becomes a place where guns are more dangerous than on the ground.
BronsonLee
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Gentleman Jack
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If it was really about checking for weapons they would have people lift their shirts to show their waistbands as well.
this is really stupid
we are already wasting a shitload of money on the TSA to provide an illusion of safety, and now theyre thinking about doing it at theaters? a bag check doesn't bother me per se, but what does is what it can lead to going forward. plus, to be fair, it wouldn't really do shit to counter people who want to commit violent acts.
we are already wasting a shitload of money on the TSA to provide an illusion of safety, and now theyre thinking about doing it at theaters? a bag check doesn't bother me per se, but what does is what it can lead to going forward. plus, to be fair, it wouldn't really do shit to counter people who want to commit violent acts.
Can you point out where they sneaked guns in with a bag?
All gunmen shoot up the cinemas asap?
It's a security measure. And not a big one considering the venue. Deal with it!
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Probably checking to make sure you don't smuggle in snacks. No, seriously. My friend was telling me about a theater that will ask to check your bag to make sure you don't take in outside snacks. I told her I'd probably just want a refund and walk out at that point. I know theaters make the majority of their money through food, but come on.
If this makes people feel better, more power to Regal. I mean if someone is going to go wild, they could just go in gun blazes and nothing changes. But I think the appearance of safety will put a lot of people at ease, and that's worth something. And these events are fairly rare, I wouldn't say it's an epidemic that requires any extreme changes on the part of the theaters. Since Aurora, they seem to be doing a good job with keeping the fire exits secure.
If this makes people feel better, more power to Regal. I mean if someone is going to go wild, they could just go in gun blazes and nothing changes. But I think the appearance of safety will put a lot of people at ease, and that's worth something. And these events are fairly rare, I wouldn't say it's an epidemic that requires any extreme changes on the part of the theaters. Since Aurora, they seem to be doing a good job with keeping the fire exits secure.
ReturnOfTheRAT
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We've all lost
JimJamJones
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heh
RomanticHeroX
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If this annoys you then start demand the societal changes needed to keep theater shootings from happening. Obviously companies are not gonna be happy having their brands attached to mass killings.
Bobby Roberts
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I guarantee Regal saw that part as the tipping point. They're going to charge you for searching your bag.
The employees who have to search your bag won't get any of that money, of course.
Fuck that. I see something dangerous, I call it out. You could be the most oppressed minority or majority. Don't do stupid shit in public.
Don't have time for idiots. I'm with you.
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