Man arrested for allegedly pepper-spraying fellow filmgoer over cellphone
A 34-year-old man was arrested this week after police say he pepper-sprayed one other moviegoer at a Burbank AMC theater for utilizing a cellphone throughout a movie.
On-line jail data present that Matthew Ware of Los Angeles was booked into the Burbank Jail on a misdemeanor battery cost and launched the next morning.
A moviegoer informed KTLA that he known as the police after he heard the hissing sound of an aerosol spray, moments earlier than somebody screamed that that they had been pepper-sprayed. Police discovered Ware within the foyer and arrested him. Photos posted on social media confirmed officers handcuffing a person carrying cargo shorts and a black T-shirt from the “Terrifier” horror franchise.
No less than two different moviegoers have been handled at a hospital for publicity to the spray, KTLA reported.
Predictably, the incident prompted scores of generally snarky feedback on social media.
Some commenters rushed to Ware’s protection, airing their very own frustrations and experiences with individuals who violate an unwritten however sacrosanct rule amongst severe filmgoers: Telephones must be silenced and keep off throughout a film.
Others have been much less sympathetic.
“Individuals on their telephones within the theater are past idiots, however you can’t go pepper spraying them,” one person wrote on X.
