A woman is CHARGED WITH ASSAULT FOR SHUSHING IN TEXAS!

[berni_mccoy]

But Dead-Eye Dick gets away with no charges for GUNNING DOWN A MAN!

Aussie tourist charged with assault for shushing Texas movie phone-talker
A former Australian city councillor has been charged with assault for shushing a woman who wouldn't stop talking on her phone at a screening of Brokeback Mountain. Pauline Clayton was on holidays in Texas, catching the movie in Texas cinema, when the woman's phone rang. After she ignored a shushing gesture, Clayton touched her lightly on the shoulder. After Clayton touched her a second time, the woman went berserk, screamed obscenities, and got two cops and swore out an assault complaint.

From
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/12/aussie_tourist_charg.html

[babylonsister]

1. I live in TX and this is terribly embarrassing.

Way to go to make a visitor/tourist feel at home. :(

[Lone_Star_Dem]

14. No kidding

Way to promote our tourist industry, too.

Mind if I join you in your embarrassment? :blush:

[Greyhound]

23. Y'all must be getting used to it by now. I live a similarly backward State

and hardly even notice the gaffes, faux pas, and blatant cronyism here anymore. Mine is the State the rejected a Super Bowl so we could avoid giving "that nigger" a holiday.

[foreigncorrespondent]

2. Better amend your title...

...it was a woman who was charged with the shushing.

[berni_mccoy]

6. WOOPS, THANKS!

[shain from kane]

3. Was he permitted to watch "the end" of the movie? n/t

[Somawas]

4. I saw this on another board.

Suggested that the Aussie lady should have just shot the Texass (not a ) lady and then screamed "Hunting accident! I thought she was a quail!"

[Charlie Brown]

5. If she started screaming obcenities

I think she's the one who should be charged. I hate people who talk on cell phones at the movies.

And while I'm on the subject, I think every single patron in that theater (besides the crazy phone woman) deserve their money back.

[FreedomAngel82]

20. Really

I remember one time my mother, brother and I went to see a movie and we got there a little bit early and there was this woman who was there from the previous screening just yacking away on her phone and she had a little kid with her and the kid kept telling the parent everything that was happening in the movie. Good grief. It was just so rude.

[Nikki Stone 1]

7. Even more embarassing that Cheney can SHOOT someone but tapping someone

on the shoulder is assault. Gotta love it.

[berni_mccoy]

8. Good Ol' Texas Justice!

[slor]

9. Hey, you could really hurt somebody...

raising your finger to "hush" someone. Far worse than drunkenly shooting an old man with birdshot.

[kenny blankenship]

10. The Consulate should have warned her: Don't touch Americans

I don't know what went wrong--you're supposed to get the pamphlet about this as soon as you step off the plane.

Do not attempt to separate them from their shiny objects such as cellphones, headmounted game consoles, or hologram projecting porno-watches. Never admit to anything less than abject worship of their democratic system of government and their King. Do not attempt to acquaint them with geography beyond their borders. Do not speak "furrin" around them and never admit to atheism. Never try to disabuse them of notions of racial supremacy or their right to natural resources beneath foreign soil. Never try to correct them on their manners, politely or not, and never let your fingers stray near their mouths.

(Actually it's best if you can avoid speaking to them at all).

[Divernan]

11. Houston local news yesterday a.m. -had three murder stories back-to-back

I was overnighting there at the airport hotel. When the second story started, I commented to my traveling companion on how many local shootings there were, and then the THIRD story was yet another shooting/homicide.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

12. At least she did not shoot them

:shrug:

[Nikki Stone 1]

13. I'd say she showed a lot of restraint, considering the yacking cell phone

caller.

[incapsulated]

18. Amen

The cell phone bitch should have been charged with creating a public nuisance or something.

Or beaten about the head with said cell phone. At least she should have gotten to actually assault her, if she was gonna get charged anyways, heh.

[Nikki Stone 1]

24. Even just taking the cell phone and smashing it to bits would have been

good.

[ImNotBuying]

15. crazy!

This country has truly lost it's mind. Don't know whether to laugh or cry at these things anymore. You couldn't make this stuff up it's so ludicrous.

[berni_mccoy]

16. I'm starting to believe we are all currently in Hell

Another poster PREDICTED that these criminals in office CAN GET AWAY WITH ANYTHING, even shooting someone, and not be punished for it. WELL, it's happened, and Cheney has even admitted being reckless about it. Nothing is happening, no one is making him resign, no one is holding him accountable.

[shadowknows69]

17. I'm inclined to agree Berni

I wonder what I did exactly to deserve this damnation.

[FreedomAngel82]

22. But Bill Clinton had sex with an intern

That's way more important dontcha know! :sarcasm:

[FreedomAngel82]

19. Oh good grief!

What a rude jerk the other woman was. This is outrageous! Why was the woman on the freakin phone in the first place in a movie theatre?

[Swamp Rat]

21. Too bad she wasn't a quail

:D

[WI_DEM]

25. She should have shot the woman-they don't care about that in TX

[ThatsMyBarack]

26. Whatever happened to....?

....that ad at the beginning of the movie in which they ask you to turn off your cell phone?! :wtf: