AMC vigilante arrested for pepper-spraying phone-using moviegoer

Witnesses purporting to have been in the theater, such as the author of a now-locked Reddit thread on the subject, claim, “Someone yelled out ‘I just got pepper sprayed,’ and the perpetrator went running out of the theater. Weirdly no one reacted besides the party that was sprayed so I went out to alert the staff because the others went after the sprayer.” But because AMC makes movies better, “they didn’t even stop the movie or anything until 15 minutes later after the whole thing went down despite the whole theater smelling like pepper spray.” It was “definitely the most bizarre experience I’ve had during my time as an A-Lister,” Redditor Dry_Commission2937 wrote. The incident is a stark escalation in the ongoing war between moviegoers and phone addicts. But, if we may, the only thing more combustible than a distracted ticketholder in a Terrifier T-shirt is someone being told to get off the phone. It behooves A-Listers, Stubs members, and regular old ticket buyers to alert ushers to disruptive audience members, even at the Alamo Drafthouse where phone usage is encouraged. It’s certainly preferable to putting bystanders in the hospital.