Sensors on rear doors of theaters? This seems the cheapest way (along wilth not letting people

[skip fox]

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in with possibly harmful items).

I know it's just another finger-in-the-dike, but it's a relatively cheap one and would prevent copy-cat methodology for the present.

Edited for clarity.

[wandy]

1. I don't know why they don't allready do this.....

Listen.
Kid one pays to get into the Movie.
Kid one holds the exit open.
Kid 2 through 'n' get in free.

Ah, the wonders of age and experience. I would never have thought of that when I was a kid.

[backscatter712]

2. Let's hope this is the solution they settle on.

Movie theaters won't mind doing this just to keep people from going in without buying tickets.

But we've already got authoritarian dopes saying "LET'S BAN COSTUMES!"

Yep, let's make Americans' lives even more shitty and oppressed because a few stupid people are afraid and blame the wrong thing.

[cthulu2016]

3. No, no, no, no, no

Exit doors in theaters are not emergency exits, they are exits. Theaters are a space where hundreds of people want to leave at the same time, while hundreds more people want to enter.

That is why there are always lots of exits to the parking lot or mall.

There is a cost associated with putting sensors on how-many-million theater exit doors, and having someone monitor them.

A much better approach is to not impose costly new ad hoc security measures that make everyone's life more inconvenient every time something aberrant happens.

The problem is not theater exits.

[ellenfl]

4. those doors are locked to keep people out. not much else you can do, imo. eom

[skip fox]

5. I'm sure they'll do something like this. Probably sensors with surveillance cameras.

The second the sensor goes off, the camera is activated. One screen-screens to be monitored. (Maybe to be watched by security guard--that's where the expense will be.


I'm sure some chain multiplexes are discussing this right now. I'm guessing cameras and sensors will be part of the solution.

I don't know how they'd stop two shooters (one letting the other--armed with two rifles--in quickly and firing, but two shooters is relatively rare: Columbine, the two in Washington DC area).

And then someone will simply come in through the ticket area, shooting up the lobby briefly on his way to the given theater numbers. (Alarms will have to be installed for this so people in them can escape? and maybe automatic bolts on the other doors immediately tripped when the alarms go off.)

Geez. I agree, this is getting terrible, but I predict such things may soon come to pass.

[Egalitarian Thug]

6. Well let's see, do you think you are really safer flying because everyone removed their shoes

and threw away all their shampoo before they were allowed to board?

[skip fox]

7. I'm not making such a judgment, just trying to brainstorm the response.

I think it's a terrible state we've come to. I grew up in a small town (Bowling Green, Ohio) the 50's and 60's. We didn't even know about molestation. We were never barred from interacting with a wide variety of adults and were better for it. Roamed the town on bikes. Felt safe constantly.

Ah, the world of my youth is long gone.

But compensations are real as well: African American and women's rights, etc.

[Egalitarian Thug]

9. A bit younger and from a larger city, but seemingly similar environments. The problem is that

while we didn't know about molestation or a dictionary full of other things, they were with us, we just didn't know about it because that's not the kind of thing discussed in polite company. As we learned about these horrors, instead of dealing with them, we freaked out and have become obsessed with fear.

We were free to roam sans helmets & pads and were gone for 12 - 14 hours every day in the summer & felt safe, but it was the feeling that matters. Didn't you know a kid or two that was getting beat up by dad? I did. Looking back, my sister and I have concluded that just in our Ozzie & Harriet neighborhood we had child abuse, child molestation, & alcoholism all on our block.

The fact is that we are much safer today, but we are also much more afraid of the dangers that do remain than we ever have been before. The difference is that we know about them.

[Posteritatis]

8. One more for the security-theatre slushpile.. (nt)