The Boston Herald reports that some schmoe has finally passed off the invention—which up to this point only existed in my mind—as his or her own. The Regal Entertainment Group has tested the Guest Response System, with mostly favorable responses. My idea: the picture's out of focus? Some asshole won't turn off his cellphone? Don't want to miss five minutes of the movie to tell the theater employee? Now you don't have to. I always pictured the buttons built into the seat, and not limited to one specially selected snitch, but the basic idea is the same:
"Select patrons will get a pagerlike device to notify managers of concerns inside the theater. This new breed of hall monitor can alert theater authorities by pressing either the “picture,” “sound,” “piracy” or “other disturbance” button.
The last button can flag anything from ringing cell phones to loud talkers."
I guess I should have patented it or something…
"Select patrons will get a pagerlike device to notify managers of concerns inside the theater. This new breed of hall monitor can alert theater authorities by pressing either the “picture,” “sound,” “piracy” or “other disturbance” button.
The last button can flag anything from ringing cell phones to loud talkers."
I guess I should have patented it or something…
1 comment:
It's about frickin' time someone came up with a "guest response system." My only concern is if they give the pager thing to one of the loud talkers themselves. How will they select the people to play snitch?
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