I saw this news story earlier on and wondered which cinema it was in Leeds – there are two VUE cinemas and it so happens it was the one in Kirkstall road, the one that I go to..
Shit.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/8176348.stm
A woman has been attacked with bleach in front of her family by a group of youths she had asked to be quiet during a showing of the new Harry Potter film.
It happened as the woman, her husband and two children ate in a restaurant after leaving the Vue Cinema on Kirkstall Road in Leeds on Sunday.
It is feared that the 46-year-old, who suffered burns, may have permanent damage to her eyes, police said.
She had asked a group of five or six youths to stop talking during the film.
West Yorkshire Police said the same group shouted abuse at the family as they left the cinema.
The family then went to Frankie and Benny’s restaurant, where two of the youths came in and threw the bleach on to the woman’s head and back.
They ran away and got into a waiting car.
This is one of my biggest bugbears when I go to the cinema and the reason I don’t go more often. Respect. Or lack of it. Society is full of these retarded fuckwits who think that doing something like this to another human being is okay. I mean, lets rewind it a little – the fact that they were talking in the cinema in the first place is wrong, this lady did the respectable, decent good citizen thing and asked them to be quiet, I’m presuming that she did so respectfully albeit firmly and she gets followed into a restaurant and bleach thrown at her. The fact that they left the kirkstall road car park hurling abuse then returned with bleach – I mean thats premeditated GBH.
I hope they lock the bastards up.
When I go to the cinema, I hate everyone else in the room – If I could go watch a film in a cinema and right in the centre there was just one chair I’d be set, big screen, great sound, just me. What I can’t do with is people rustling sweet wrappers, talking to each other or people that can’t bear to switch off their phones for 90 minutes.
What we have here is a typical situation – a family go to the cinema together, they are trying to watch a film but are hampered by a group of kids ( I say kids, ages in this story seem to range from 14-19). They ask them to be quiet, they get abuse. They get more abuse later and then the woman is physically assaulted, to the extent of possibly permanent damage to her eyes.
What on earth is this place coming to? Where did the respect go? Who brought these kids up?
If this was one of my kids I’d be ashamed, I’d be mortified. I’d march them up to the police station and I’d ask them to throw away the key. It’s a shame that if they get caught they’ll be let off with a caution more than likely. What’s more of a shame is that the parents probably don’t give a shit.
It reminds me of when we went to see Jack Dee at St. George’s Hall a few years ago. There were a couple of people sat behind us, turned up 20 minutes into the performance and then started to heckle – Jack Dee shut them up but we’d asked them to be quiet – we got abuse hurled at us and filthy looks.
Freedom of speech is one thing, freedom to do as you please without hindrance is another – not having the decency or respect for other people though, there’s no excuse for it. Sometimes, I just despair – I don’t hate these people, I just despair at what sort of a world we live in and every time I read a story like this one, I stop and wonder if this is a world I really want to bring a child into.
Just think, these are the world leaders of tomorrow. Well, that’s unfair – the leaders of tomorrow are in little bubbles inside their own little worlds at Eaton or wherever. But I can guaruntee you these kids will be standing in the dole queue at the benefits office. Scumbags.
Sorry, that was a little stereotypical and probably a little harsh.
I think I believe in Karma, I don’t know how people can sleep at night.
/rant
