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post Feb 16 2006, 04:45 PM
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AN Australian tourist has been charged with assault after telling a Texas woman to stop talking on her mobile phone at the movies.

Pauline Clayton was enjoying a matinee screening of Brokeback Mountain in a Texas cinema when her day suddenly turned ugly.

The former Sunshine Coast councillor said about halfway through the movie, a mobile phone started ringing nearby, a woman answered it and started talking.
"I put one finger up to my mouth to shoosh her," Ms Clayton said.

"She ignored me - I then leaned across and touched her with three or four fingers on the top of her arm."

When the "very large" woman failed to end her call, Ms Clayton again touched her on the shoulder and that was when the woman exploded.

Ms Clayton said the woman stood up over her, started shouting expletives at her and then stormed out of the cinema, in the town of Webster, just outside Houston.

A short time later two Texas police officers walked into the cinema and escorted Ms Clayton out.

She said the police took her to the food bar and explained that the woman had accused Ms Clayton of "invading her private space". The woman had made a complaint of assault because Ms Clayton had touched her.

"They were very apologetic," Ms Clayton said.
"They were very uncomfortable."

Ms Clayton said the officers had tried to dissuade the woman from making a complaint and had even told the woman that if she did make the complaint, police would charge the woman with disorderly conduct and using a profanity for her outburst in the cinema.

The woman refused to back down and not only was Ms Clayton charged, but the woman is now also due in court after being charged over her behaviour.
Ms Clayton was issued a citation and will appear in a Texas court next week to answer the charge.

With the help of an off-duty police officer who saw the fracas, she is hoping to escape with only a fine.

In the meantime Ms Clayton said she was hoping to get back to see the second half of Brokeback Mountain.

If convicted, Ms Clayton who grew up in Victoria and once worked as a journalist for The Sun newspaper in Brisbane, faces a fine of up to $675.

She said she had been told a conviction would not affect her chances of re-entering the US. Police said it was a "little matter" and they would not be notifying US immigration authorities about any conviction.

That's that bullshit. stubborn.gif
 
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thats pretty stupid...
 
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post Feb 16 2006, 06:41 PM
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Wow. Something like that happened to me kind of. Me and my friends went to go see a movie, adn we were the only ones in the theater. We were laughing and having a good time. We were loud, but were the only ones. About 5 minutes into the preveiws one of the people that worked there came in and told us that if we would not stop yelling then we wopuld be kicked out. It was retarted, but made me laugh.
 
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post Feb 16 2006, 06:46 PM
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Dear Lord, right outside of Houston? I believe there is only one movie theater playing Brokeback right outside of houston... and it was the one I saw it in.... *shakes head* People here are are imbeciles.
 
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lol. Texas broads. don't they know that big texan women are loud. Thats so funny. Instead of trying to talk to the woman, I would have spoken to an usher. You can be kicked out of a theatre for that stuff. I don't think she should be charged for assult tho. Thats a bit much. If I had known you could do that, I would have charged this guy who kept kicking my chair really really hard in the theatre--on purpose. So I would turn around and ask for him to stop (grown man mindyou) and he wouldn't. So I would rock my chair back really hard and hit his foot, and then he would like, literally kick the crap out of my chair. He even kicked me in the back of the head. What a jerk. Oh well.
 
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thanks mister reporter. :]
 
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post Feb 16 2006, 07:37 PM
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She was probably shaken up after seeing Heath Ledger on screen.
hehe, but naw that is messed up.
I swear, people press charges for everything nowadays.
 
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post Feb 16 2006, 07:48 PM
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errr blink.gif
 
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post Feb 16 2006, 09:01 PM
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QUOTE(KissMe2408 @ Feb 16 2006, 5:37 PM)
I swear, people press charges for everything nowadays.
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I agree. People keep sueing othes for the most pointless things ever. _dry.gif
 
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post Feb 16 2006, 10:44 PM
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QUOTE(xscore @ Feb 16 2006, 6:08 PM)
thanks mister reporter. :]
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Extra, muthafuckin' extra; read all about it!

I'm sure that was sarcasm, but I'm in a good mood so I really don't care. biggrin.gif
 
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post Feb 16 2006, 10:50 PM
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"bitch ! i know you did not just touch me"

i can see this being very comical.
 
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post Feb 17 2006, 10:57 AM
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that is just stupid period
 
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post Feb 17 2006, 11:59 AM
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Stupid people...
 
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post Feb 17 2006, 12:10 PM
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Where do you find this shit? It's great.
 
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Oh wow, that is dumb
 
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post Feb 17 2006, 05:47 PM
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Wow, that's pathetic and hilarious considering this is happening close to where I live. 'Very large', lol.
 
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post Feb 17 2006, 07:10 PM
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Oh gah, that's dumb. >_>
People use your common sense - you're in the movie theaters to watch a movie, not to talk on your cell. People who do that really irritate me (esp. when they hold up a long conversation).
 
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post Feb 17 2006, 07:27 PM
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AHAHAHAS. goodness. i hate people who completely overblow everything.
 
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post Feb 17 2006, 07:41 PM
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thats dumb.
 
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mellow.gif well. that sucks for her.

ridiculous.
 
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post Feb 18 2006, 01:32 AM
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lmfao, WTF
 
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post Feb 18 2006, 01:41 AM
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damn that shit is mad brokeback. ha ha ha
 
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post Feb 18 2006, 07:44 AM
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post Feb 18 2006, 07:51 AM
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Gosh I hate it when people make excessive noise in the cinema. Not to mention when someone's mobile phone rings.


That women totally deserves it.
 
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post Feb 18 2006, 08:26 AM
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i hate it when people talk to others or on the phone in cinemas.


i remember a few weeks ago when i was in HK, i was watching narnia in the theatres, and there was this guy sitting right behind me and talked ALL the way through the movie, basically talking about everything that was happening to the person behind him. it was really dumb too,because he kept saying things like "OMG, don't go into the wardrobe! Are you stupid?" or "She killed the lion, are they all going to die now?"

psht _dry.gif
 
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post Feb 18 2006, 02:12 PM
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And the moral is: Don't mess with large ladies or you'll end up as a lump of pulp.
 
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