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Our insurance covers any injury sustained in the theatre, regardless of fault. If you run as fast as you can and ram your head into the wall, the insurance company will cover your stitches.

As far as theatre environments go, he explained that the first thing a person notices when entering a theatre from outside is "Damn!! It's dark in here!"

The way it was explained to me was that the customer entered an obvious dark place, noticed that it was dark, and then made the consious decision to press on.

Theatres, by nature, have been dark places throughout history.

According to him, claims are simply what the word implies. Unless there is obvious negligence and disregard for safety involved on the part of the theatre, the the award will be free stitches.

I am only one year into my stadium experience, but as of yet, there have been no injuries.

Lawyers!! There handy dealing with ex-wives, but if ya give 'em too much power, all forms of recreation and entertainment will cease to exist!

We need to re-introduce common sense into the public school system!

As a child, if I went home and told my mother that I was injured falling from a neighbor's tree, her first question would have been "What the Hell were you doing in the neighbor's tree to start with!"

Today, I fear her first question would be "Did you damage the tree?"

Actually the response would be, "was it johnsons tree? Cuz you know he has lots of money, and faulty trees!"

True story, there is this theater here in salt lake that is now closed. reason? A large woman, about 385 pounds according to court records, wedged herself into a theater seat. She then, according to witnesses, began to rock the seat, and these were not recliners. After about an hour of this, the seat broke and she flew backwards into the people behind her. The patrons that had this behemoth crash on them were furious. They understood this was the work of an overly weighty person, and NOT the fault of the theater itself. They testified in court on the theaters behalf. The LARGE WOMAN sued for pain and suffering. SHE WON!! $385 THOUSAND DOLLARS!!! FOR BIENG WAY TOO BIG FOR THE SEATS!!!

Cant we put up signs that politely say that if you must wedge into a seat, it probably is too small for you? MAybe you should rethink the extra butter on that popcorn?

Lawyers and insurance agents... biggest contributors to politicians... next to of course the dangerous chemicals companies...

dave

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I could be wrong on the theater, but i believe that was the one.

What you do is dig a big big pit into the ground and have the stadium seating start at ground level and go down! This way, there's no problems with anyone blocking the screen! It just might work!!!

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Andrew McCrea

Also, if i were to draw my ideal auditorium, could I mail it to anyone to get scanned into the computer?

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Andrew McCrea

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Brad, Jason Burroughs, can you add anything about this one.

I have not been to the the Glen Lakes in a very long time, but from what I recall the "stadium seating" section of their auditoriums are not any more steep than there other current stadium seating. They have this arrangement in only a few of their auditoriums, the back 1/3 is like stadium seating, the front 2/3 is fairly steeply sloped. Then the great big parabolic mic that they use for a screen is mounted pretty high as well.

~GLB

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If you could build an auditorium or more of your own, what would be the best design?

Not that I'm planning on rebuilding any old abandoned auditoriums, no, not me