Where did the "poster" image come from for this episode? It's great.

People who text/use their phones (especially answering them and carry on conversations) should be sent to Gitmo for "re-education".

Not totally germane, but on the topic of jamming cell phones imagine this scenario: you're a theater and you jam the cell phones - lots of people have weather apps and whatnot - and there is a terrible storm just south of the theater and the national weather service issues a warning. Nobody received these mobile warnings because you jammed them AND you didn't make an announcement over a loudspeaker.

The theater is probably liable for a negligent tort for any weather related accident that a patron suffers. And a big payout.

That kind of scenario is a good reason to not bother jamming. Why even open yourself up to it?

Well, you have a fair point and it is an interesting thought experiment. However, given the contingency plans the company I work for has in place for things that are implausible, I would say that many companies have similar polices.

However, almost everything nowadays is open to suit so it is possible

Okay, this whole issue just leveled up big time. Alex Billington, blogger for firstshowing.net, CALLED 911 on a dude who was on his phone in a TIFF screening today. And he's super-serious about this too. He's on Twitter and Facebook acting like he's some kind of hero for "elevating the issue" of movie texters. He's saying that change wasn't going to come until someone took the issue as seriously as he did. He's acting like a martyr for the cause.

Fuck Alex Billington. He makes all of us look like lunatics with no sense of humor about ourselves. He's not only dragging down public perception of film buffs/critics, he's forever sullied the reputations of every internet journalist looking for a press pass to a film festival, especially TIFF. He's pathetic, and I hope he's banned from future film events for this reckless, inappropriate behavior. Fuck. Alex. Billington.

It's unclear. It would be hilarious if he did, though. He did mention in a tweet that he had to leave the film early, so either he left to make the call or he was forced to leave after making it. He did go to TIFF administrators after he called, and they said that it's in their rules that you have the right to use your phone in a screening.

And in this case, I get that. A major part of any film festival is getting people to buy your movie, so if a buyer wants to be texting his employers about the movie they're planning on getting the rights to, too bad for the blogger who just wanted an early pass to a screening.

I seriously hope he gets a fine for misuse of emergency services or something like that. It is no different than the guy who called 911 because Subway put the wrong condiments on his sandwich, or something like that.

It really is incredibly stupid way to make your point, and like Doc said, it removes the legitimacy of the movement to ban cell phone use in movies.

I wouldn't think it would be that bad, as piracy concerns are still a thing, but apparently it is such that in order to make the point, you have to call 911?

I don't understand...