Originally Posted by foxpaws
Because even throwing popcorn at someone isn't 'massive'.
Foxy, Baz has been asserting that the texter's part in the incident began with the texting and after being asked to stop... refusing to do so.
Forget the popcorn, please... it looks silly to keep focusing on that. It comes off as failed hyperbole... or at the very least, sidestepping and dissing what Baz has to say about common courtesy.
No one gets shot, dead, for throwing popcorn, no one dies because of being rude. There is no 'responsibility' here - no one gets killed for doing these things, period. Just throwing popcorn isn't a death threat, and we know very, very little of what transpired verbally between these two people, however, it seems that you want to place 'massive' blame on the texter, even if you don't know the facts.
I can 'hear' Baz just fine - it appears he continually states that the texter, because he was impolite, escalated the situation, just as you are, and has the bulk of the responsibility here. First off, we don't know that the shooter wasn't impolite to begin with, that he may have been the 'instigator' of all this. Texting during the previews isn't a criminal offense, nor is it even against the 'rules', and, currently is accepted behavior by most people who go to movies. Add to that we don't know what the ex-cop told the texter initially. Was it 'if you don't put that cell phone away I am going to make you sorry you took it out', did the texter reply with 'Sorry, just finishing up, I'll make sure it doesn't bother you again'. Wow - that would change everything wouldn't it? At that point who has the 'massive' part in the cause of all this? The guy that threatened the other one, the one that left the theater and came back, disgruntled that management was too busy to deal with his all important cell phone matter, and willing to take matters into his own hands?
The whole thing against Baz and now you, is you don't know - you are assuming that the texter was somehow 'first' to the rude starting line. After reading about the 'priors' that this older man has regarding cell phones in theaters, I would certainly say that the older guy has at least a 50/50 chance of being the first to the 'rude' threshold.
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