I was just perusing this (extract) about an Aussie woman in the US....
AN Australian woman charged with assault after trying to shush an American movie goer who was on a mobile phone has been fined $176.
Pauline Clayton was in Texas on holidays when she decided to catch Australian actor Heath Ledger's movie Brokeback Mountain last week.
Halfway through the picture, a woman film patron took a mobile phone call, and began talking.
Annoyed by the disruption, Ms Clayton, a former Sunshine Coast councillor, put her finger to her mouth, signalling to the woman to shush, then touched her on the shoulder twice.
The other woman then stood up and started shouting expletives at Ms Clayton before storming out of the cinema.
Police arrived and escorted Ms Clayton out of the theatre.
The maligned woman told officers Ms Clayton had been "invading her private space" and accused the Australian of assault.
Police subsequently arrested Ms Clayton and charged her with assault.
Ms Clayton was fined $176, the Seven Network reported today.
Considering that I've been known to walk up to 2, 3, and 4 blokes in a movie theatre and told them to shut up (as well as children who've been allowed to roam free) - I hate to think what the result would have been had I been the Aussie.
I think a mobile phone doing a pegged arc across a theatre and smashing into a wall would be extremely funny - almost to the point that I'd be happy to pay the fine :)
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Creepy fuckers in the US, all too aware of how they can get a scumsucking lawyer to extract $$$$.
Fuckem, don't go there, especially California or Massachusets.
This is just too stupid for me to get my head around.
The woman distrupting the entire audience with yelling & abuse is NOT arrested and is NOT fined, but a woman discretely and politely trying to hush that same woman on mobile, disrupting eveyones quiet enjoyment of a film viewing is both arrested AND found "guilty" of something!
Un-fucking-believable.
I'd say only in America, but some of the lawsuits that turn up in the courts here make me wonder.
we didn't get a chance to tell you Jai, but Nick knows this Pauline Clayton - she used to be a journalist.
-- Nora
I remember some statistics back around 2000 or so that said that if you took California out of the equation, Australia had more payouts per courtcase than the USA. Apparently we have more civil action going on per capita than they do.
People trying to get money from anybody and everybody by any means >:(
Nora,
So... using a comment that Nick used once - if Pauline Clayton *used* to be a journalist, does that now make her a *good* journalist?
I remember this comment because he first used it one day during UTP when he said: "There goes a good politician!". I turned around and was looking for the hearse.
His comment was actually directed towards Pat Comben - he was a "good politician" because he got sick of the corruption of the Queensland system and quit.
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