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AMC movie theater calls “federal agents” to arrest a Google Glass user
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So, this dude was in an AMC theater trying to enjoy a movie (while wearing his PRESCRIPTION Google Glass(es) and the theater calls the FBI on him alleging that he was recording the movie.
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Because I don’t want Glass to distract me during the movie, I turn them off (but since my prescription lenses are on the frame, I still wear them). About an hour into the movie (Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit), a guy comes near my seat, shoves a badge that had some sort of a shield on it, yanks the Google Glass off my face and says “follow me outside immediately”. It was quite embarrassing and outside of the theater there were about 5-10 cops and mall cops. Since I didn’t catch his name in the dark of the theater, I asked to see his badge again and I asked what was the problem and I asked for my Glass back. The response was “you see all these cops you know we are legit, we are with the ‘federal service’ and you have been caught illegally taping the movie”.
After interrogating him for more than 4 hours, they determined that he had done nothing illegal...
Considering it was 11:27pm when this happened, and the movie started at 7.45, I guess 3 and a half hours of my time and the scare my wife went through (who didn’t know what was going on as nobody bothered to tell her) is worth about 30 bucks in the eyes of the Movie Association and the federal militia (sorry, I cannot think of other derogatory words). I think I should sue them for this, but I don’t have the time or the energy to deal with “who is my boss – they don’t want me, they want the big guy” again, so I just spilled the beans on this forum, for other to learn from my experience.
Bottom line... you are GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT in AMERIKA!!! AMC has received my last $$$.
Read the entire article here:
[link to the-gadgeteer.com]
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