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Author Topic: Cell phone user sues after theater armrest hits her on the head Sean McKinnon Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1712 From: Peabody Massachusetts Registered: Sep 2000 posted 03-29-2010 11:02 AM                        quote: But it was as she was leaning forward, her head tilted to the side that an upright armrest fell in to position -- bonking her so hard, she says, that she went to the hospital with a concussion. I've seen some arm rests that when in the down position protude out the back of the chair slightly. I figured that since she was leaning foward she got hit by the back of the arm rest in front of her swinging up and hitting her in the forehead. I don't see how she could be leaning foward and get hit by an arm rest behind her? This whole thing smells like bull shit to me!  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 03-29-2010 11:38 AM                     quote: Sean McKinnon I don't see how she could be leaning foward and get hit by an arm rest behind her? Leaning down and to the side puts you directly in the path of the armrest that would be moving forward. Sure, it wouldn't happen with the super-short armrests, but lots of armrests are pretty long.  |  IP: Logged Sean McKinnon Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1712 From: Peabody Massachusetts Registered: Sep 2000 posted 03-30-2010 10:54 AM                        ok I get it now I guess I skipped over the part where it said down and to the side. Anyways this lady has to be so full of shit you can smell her a mile away!  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 03-30-2010 11:14 AM                     Well all it says is she hunched forward, but she could've easily leaned to the side a bit and describe that as hunching forward or said she did that and had the person writing the article describe it wrong. Still, she'll have a hard time proving her case.  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 03-30-2010 10:07 PM                        quote: Chris Slycord Leaning down and to the side puts you directly in the path of the armrest that would be moving forward. It would put your back or shoulder in the way, but I still am having a very hard time visualizing how she would get her head in position to get hit.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 03-30-2010 10:36 PM                     Try picturing someone a lot shorter than you doing it. And with the armrests being long.  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 03-31-2010 09:48 AM                     I second Connor's idea! Around here, people seem to have gotten the message about not chatting during the show. Almost all of our complaints are caused by people texting. The screens on most phones & PDA's these days are so bright it can light up half the aisle and is very distracting to everyone sitting behind the texting twit. (Or tweeting text-er, or whatever.) While testing our new Techniclor 3D system the other day, I discovered that while wearing the Tech-3D glasses, I could not read the display on my cell phone. Apparantly the polarizaion of the glasses and the filter on the LCD screen of my phone did not match. I don't know if this will happen with all cell phones, but if so, it sure would be one way to cut down on texting during the show!  |  IP: Logged Jim Bedford Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 597 From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer) Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-31-2010 10:53 AM                        Cell phones: ID, block, or destroy them  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 03-31-2010 11:15 AM                     If you click on the first link the picture and description clearly say it is a camera detector despite them titling the object as a cell phone detector.  |  IP: Logged Lyle Romer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1400 From: Davie, FL, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 03-31-2010 12:01 PM                     Unless there was a 10 lb weight in the cupholder there is no way that a falling armrest can generate enough force in that much space. The max the armrest could move before hitting her is maybe 3 feet. The only way to cause a concussion with an armrest is if somebody removed it and wound up and hit her with it really hard. This story is complete BS. The fact that a lawyer even took the case shows what is wrong with that profession.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-31-2010 03:50 PM                        Agreed. This is like somebody jumping up and hitting their head on a low ceiling, and then suing because the ceiling was too low.  |  IP: Logged Galen Murphy-Fahlgren Master Film Handler Posts: 405 From: Canton, MI, USA Registered: Oct 2007 posted 04-01-2010 10:32 AM                     Mike, I did just that the other week in my own house, but instead of the ceiling, I hit my head on a light fixture and broke it. Oops.  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 04-01-2010 03:52 PM                     > I hit my head on a light fixture and broke it. Your head or the fixture?  |  IP: Logged Galen Murphy-Fahlgren Master Film Handler Posts: 405 From: Canton, MI, USA Registered: Oct 2007 posted 04-02-2010 03:30 AM                     The fixture. I have been told that I am hard headed, I guess this is just empirical proof. It did hurt like hell, though.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 04-02-2010 09:51 AM                     Not to diminish you hurting your head, but that's really not any sort of empirical proof at all. More weight and force can be associated with a human body in motion than an armrest on a theater chair pivoting down from an upright position. A person can hurt himself pretty badly by hitting his head on a stationary object. Another problem I have with this arm rest story is I've never encountered theater seats with movable arm rests where the arm rests moved very loose and free. They almost always seem to have quite a bit of resistance or "stick" to the pivot action. With most seats, I could raise the arm rest partially and have it stay put at a 45° angle. Obviously this is another detail to check with the lady's very questionable story.  |  IP: Logged

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