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Author Topic: Regal Theatre Bag Check Buck Wilson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 894 From: St. Joseph MO, USA Registered: Sep 2010 posted 11-25-2015 05:16 PM                     Jesse- Tell me about it. Regal literally requires each presentation to be ruined not once, but TWICE with the flashlights! What a ridiculous policy. Martin- Exactly. Which is why I don't search ANY bags. Unless of course the paranoid old lady practically begs me to. "What, you aren't searching bags anymore?! What a shame! *Shoves purse into my face*"  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-25-2015 11:18 PM                        What is the point of walking around with a flashlight that's TURNED ON? That's gotta be the dumbest movie theater policy ever. Ushers should be as invisible as possible. Aside from not being a distraction, it's also easier to spot misbehavior if you're not calling attention to yourself with a lighted flashlight. Who are the executives who think up this nonsense? Grade school dropouts?!  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 11-25-2015 11:44 PM                     Maybe it is "for your safety". That line seems to work for the TSA.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-26-2015 08:30 AM                        quote: Mike Blakesley What is the point of walking around with a flashlight that's TURNED ON? Show of force?  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 11-26-2015 11:50 AM                     The purpose of ushers walking around creating a distraction is so that the secret shoppers will see them and note in their reports that the auditorium was checked by staff as required.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-26-2015 12:38 PM                     Theater staff are NOT security guards! If a business (theater or otherwise) wants security, they should hire properly trained security staff. I would never trust any company to institute searches of customers' property unless they use trained, full-time security officers, hired for the purpose. Even then, I don't fully trust them, either. I would NEVER trust minimum-wage, teenaged theater staff to do it. Not EVER! Regal (and others) are opening themselves up to some hairy civil liability issues by instituting policies like this and, in my opinion, it is only a matter of time before they get their asses sued off. If somebody looks in one wrong bag, says one wrong thing or unwittingly incriminates one innocent person the theater could be in for one heck of a lawsuit. I can't imagine an intelligent executive of any company who serves the public like Regal would make such a stupid decision.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 11-26-2015 05:17 PM                     quote: Randy Stankey Theater staff are NOT security guards It's amazing that some locations who does not have a form of standardization of operation, are unaware that their staff members do as such to the point they yell at the customers. Seen that one here and there. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Buck Wilson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 894 From: St. Joseph MO, USA Registered: Sep 2010 posted 11-26-2015 06:33 PM                     Adam is correct. It's all about the secret shopper points. Who cares about presentation?  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 11-26-2015 06:55 PM                     The secret shoppers are usually the only people there. All the regular customers stopped coming!  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 11-29-2015 06:43 PM                     quote: Randy Stankey I can't imagine an intelligent executive of any company who serves the public like Regal would make such a stupid decision. I've thought that way about most of Regal's decisions- stupid decisions are what they're all about!  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-29-2015 09:19 PM                     I sat in class where the professor literally pounded his fist on the table and yelled at students, "You can't do things like that!" I remember discussing one case where a security guard in a retail store merely stood in front of a customer, pointed his finger and yelled "Stop!" That was enough for the store to get sued for false arrest and wrongful incrimination. When the guard took the customer to the back office for questioning, a charge of false imprisonment got tacked on. The store had to pay a settlement of several thousand dollars in order to avoid a multi-million dollar lawsuit. I know that this is an egregious example. An extreme case. However, a movie exhibitor invites the public into its theaters in the same way a retailer invites the public into its stores. Once a business, theater, retailer or otherwise, invites the public onto its property, they bear the responsibility if they violate a person's civil rights. This was an undergraduate level course. Basic stuff. I have a hard time understanding how corporate lawyers with advanced, legal degrees could be so stupid. Regal must hire its lawyers out of the "DUI Defense" ads on the back cover of the phone book!  |  IP: Logged Terry Monohan Master Film Handler Posts: 379 From: San Francisco CA USA Registered: May 2014 posted 12-01-2015 07:56 PM                     The Regal flashlight with red wand extension needs to be changed to dark Blue. It's just to much, in Santa Cruz CA they come down the side aisle a few times per movie and pretend to look at the A/C temp panel on the side wall. It is very distracting when watching a film. I guess this gives the candy people something to do before the next movie starts before they have to clean the auditorium. I want a Blue flashlight wand so I can walk around my home theatre and look like we have extra security. Who sells these clip color rod flashlights, very 1950's?  |  IP: Logged Rusty Gordon Film Handler Posts: 33 From: Fairview, Tennessee USA Registered: Feb 2004 posted 12-09-2015 01:35 PM                        Been to two Regal sites in Nashville since they instituted this bag check policy (Green Hills and 100 Oaks). Both times Metropolitan Police Officers in uniform conducted bag checks at the door. Multiple officers were in the area where the customers' tickets are accepted and torn by theater staff.  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 12-09-2015 02:56 PM                        Those flashlights are called Traffic Wands, and can be purchased from the police and security equipment stores or websites.  |  IP: Logged Terry Monohan Master Film Handler Posts: 379 From: San Francisco CA USA Registered: May 2014 posted 12-19-2015 01:06 PM                     Thanks Frank for the ordering information. I'll buy one in red and the other in blue to check patrons bags coming into my home theatre. I'll also bring one hidden in a umbrella bag and bring to a Regal Theatre so I don't fall on sticky floors going to the bathroom.  |  IP: Logged

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