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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I’ve “snuck” quite a bit of snackage with me when I go to my local theater. (Especially because they rarely offer anything on my diet.) I put that in quote marks because I’m sure they can easily tell I’m smuggling my own stuff in.

I’ve always reckoned that they let me by because they’re not paid enough to really care. Thankfully I have yet to run into a theater worker on a power trip.

I guess it also helps that I do buy myself drinks while I’m there.

But man, I’d probably shit my pants if they called the cops on me just because I brought my own zero sugar smoked sausages and some pumpkin seeds…

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Interesting news for a Friday. Gobto theater and be murdered. Guess ticket ticket sales will suck this week.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Look, these were some feral hogs for sure, but nobody got murdered, this was NZ, calm down.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My real question here is, do they really pay the employees enough for them to actually care?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I suspect some employees (like the one of this article) are happy to do it for free… just for the fun

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

I'm honestly baffled by people busting their ass for shitty jobs for shitty corporations. It's like people being exploited by Walmart risking their lives trying to prevent theft... Like why?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Quick! Eat the evidence!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So what next, are they going to start going after people who fill up before they arrive at the theater? Going into the theater on a full stomach is theft, you should thank them for the overpriced food they slave over for you (or at least the hourly workers who are treated like slaves).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

They don't control the rules outside the theater. Suggesting there is some slippery slope from them not allowing outside food in the theater to them controlling your life before going is just absolutely absurd.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Oral surgeons already want you to fast for a time before going in. It’s only a matter of time before movie theaters make you do it too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

them controlling your life before going is just absolutely absurd

This is why I assumed they were joking but everyone responding is being serious.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But they control rules of who comes in theater. At least in beastly capitalism they do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Suggesting theaters are going to check people for a full stomach before entry is absurd stuff that should probably stay in the bounds of black mirror-esque science-fiction works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, nothing is next. You can't bring your own food in some places. It's really not that hard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is not something that should involve the police.

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