No can do without Cagey.
Posted on 03/29/2014 10:26:17 PM PDT by kingattax
That’s bananas!
A Brooklyn movie house in health-food-centric Park Slope called the cops on a diabetic customer — just because he was munching strawberries that were sold outside the cinema.
“It was embarrassing. I didn’t expect it. Two police officers came and told me to leave with a full theater of people watching. I said ‘Is this for real?’ and they said, ‘Yes, you have to leave,’ ” said Michael Kass, a 41-year-old financial analyst.
Kass, who has Type 2 diabetes, couldn’t eat the junk food for sale at the Park Slope Pavilion, so he brought a carton of prewashed strawberries to keep his insulin level in check during a showing of “Divergent” on Sunday, he said.
But before he could watch the action flick, a worker cut him off near the theater entrance and checked his bag — demanding he toss the forbidden fruit and explaining no outside food is allowed, Kass claims.
The strawberry-stashing father of three tried to explain his disease, but “they didn’t seem to care,” he said, so he asked a manager to refund his $12 ticket.
When the manager refused, he stuffed his snack back in the bag and took a seat in the theater, he said.
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Junior Mints can be very refreshing. :)
Why didn’t he simply avail himself of a $20.00 box of delicious Juji-Fruits?
At least he didn’t try to sneak in an outside Cappuccino. That would have been the Death Blow causing him to Cry, Cry Again.
Any more Seinfeld references?
It might be part of the deal with the concessionaires. They get exclusive eats rights in the place.
Might want to review your math. :)
In this man's case, they should have explained their policy didn't make allowances for his condition and refunded his money (and sent him on his way).
It wasn't until after they refused to refund his admission that he went in and took a seat anyway.
I’m surprised they didn’t find grounds to pummel him.
“Stop resisting! Stop resisting!” *whack whack whack*
Had he been discreet, like buying a little bag of popcorn then after eating it putting the strawberries in the empty bag, he also might not have been interfered with.
First off, the only way I would be in NYC would be bound and gagged in the trunk of a car.
Haven't been in a movie theater in at least a quarter century.
The movie looks like it sucks and the chick isn't hot
The theater is private property and they have rules. No outside food!
A grown man can't go 90 mins without eating; type /2 or not?
Married man with 3 kids alone in a theater? What's up with that?0
Well, he wasn’t very sneaky, but buttered, salted strawberries just doesn’t whet my appetite..
I’ll have to try buttered salted strawberries sometimes. Not a half bad idea if the butter is good quality.
looks like you were the only one that really got the ironic connection in this story.
“The Caine Mutiny”.....movie.....strawberries....bad outcome
nice work
No can do without Cagey.
It does seem that people seem to be going increasingly out of their way to demand special accommodation from society for whatever malady or grieviance they might have.
For instance, one of out 1,000 kids might be allergic to peanut butter and suddenly we have to ban it in all the schools. One out of 10,000 men want to dress like a girl in public and now we have to build them "special" bathrooms. Bleachers are torn down for a boy's ballfield because they are "superior" to the bleachers in the girl's ballfield.
Everybody seems to be demanding to be treated special.
And the fact that the NY Post needed THREE reporters to cover this story ...
And, they didn’t shoot a dog.
I carry both Tums, three types of blood pressure pills, cough drops, and even mints with me all the time. Acid reflux, scar tissue in the throat that can become irritated and cause me to have coughing fits or close up the Eustachean tube, tremendous sinus pains due to clogged sinus sacks, and even weakness if i don’t have enough to eat while taking my pills (blood thinners).
After a heart attack and cardiac arrest, I don’t give a damn what other people think if they don’t know my health condition. I also have a defibrilator/pacemaker, a Disabled Persons Id, a medical alert bracelet, and a letter from my mother saying that I can carry all these things.
Oh, forgot the inhaler. That is a real lifesaver in an emergency.
Looks are deceiving so have a little compassion would you?
We were talking about somebody bringing strawberries into a movie theatre and here you are talking about...well I don't know exactly what.
Straw man argument?
Something is wrong I tell you!
How long until the officers get disciplined because they neglected to show the peasant who was boss?
Not “straw man argument”. “Strawberry man argument”.
I need a permission slip to carry my inhaler in the National Archives, as well as my seat cushion for psyatic nerve damage to my legs and lower back.
You’d be amazed at the amount of regulations that exist today just to screw up peoples lives. I see this in my work everyday, and those are just US government regulations that nobody gets to vote on.
The same for state and local regulations.
I was trying to make a point. You don’t know about people’s health conditions if they are not visible. The man should have told the theater manager that he had a diabetic condition (real or not). They could have worked something out.
If the theater owner was smart, he’s sell them to the movie viewers and everyone would be happy.
Life is too complicated and too many bureaucrats and “bosses” like to screw around with other peoples lives.
Some where, some time, it has got to stop and common sense take over again.
Just look at what they are doing to kids in elementary schools who have cookies they eat into the the shape of a gun.
You need more strawberries. Easier to digest than peanuts.
Are you an md?
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