Product: Cell Phone: Countermeasure
cell phone ejection   (+17, -2)  [vote for, against]
if your cell phone rings in a theater, automatic and immediate ejection from theater

simple enough, if a phone rings a big security guard comes down and throws the person out and the phone in the garbage.
-- raisin, Sep 26 2000

Theater sniper http://www.halfbake...ea/Theater_20sniper
Hit the deck! [thumbwax, Sep 26 2000]

Exploding cell phone http://www.halfbake...ding_20Cell_20Phone
I hate cell phones too. [AfroAssault, Sep 26 2000]

Pocket Cell Phone Jammer -- For Real http://www.starportuk.com/21.htm
"The would be mobile user standing within range of your Wave-Shield is none the wiser. They just think they have a poor or non-existent signal. Both their incoming and outgoing calls are mysteriously terminated and the phone displays 'no service'." [bristolz, Mar 29 2002]

Global Telephone Access Improves As Internet Gap Widens http://www.itu.int/...leases/2002/05.html
"The year 2002 will also be remembered as the one when mobiles surpassed fixed lines. Currently, 97 countries have more mobile users than fixed-lines and almost 1 in 6 people on the planet have mobiles." [bristolz, Apr 04 2002]

For repeat offenders, I can think of other, more mechanically challenging things to do with a person and a cell phone.

(For one, it would finally provide a convincing advantage of small, round Nokias over big, flat, flip-top Motorolas.)
-- ping, Sep 26 2000


This may be more satisfying for the other people if the seats themselves were cellphone-activated ejector seats. ring ring ring WHOOSH!! and the offender disappears through the ceiling. Of course that may be distracting, which would be a problem in theatres and cinemas. In that case the seats could be placed on cellphone-activated trap doors.
-- Skinny Rob, Oct 05 2000


I thought the Motorola V was the smallest phone you could get....
-- imagooAJ, Nov 09 2000


How about tasers in the seat cushions? With the right capacitance, you can short out the phone.
-- nick_n_uit, Nov 10 2000


How about locating the person in the hall and electroshocking (trought the chair), by remote control. (Only the right person, hi, hi, hi).
-- leo14m3, Mar 29 2002


Not just theaters, but restaurants and libraries, too.
-- mrthingy, Mar 29 2002


cellphonus rantus ad nauseum infinitum
-- bristolz, Mar 29 2002


interesting idea, although PeterSealeys idea about the phone jammer could be amusing coz I doubt that anybody would guess to complain, and just think it would be bad reception.
-- kaz, Mar 29 2002


Throwing them out of the theater is one thing. Causing harm and destroying property is another.

Rant - hurt people who do X.
-- bookworm, Jun 24 2002



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