Or pull the batteries, and drop them in the trash can. Usually I just announce to the room I requires the remote, turn it to something else, usually Fox and then retain the remote. In several years of doing this, I’ve only had one person, a liberal in California challenge my actions. When I told them it wasn’t up for discussion while I was eating, as anything else on the TV would make me violently sick they left. Being assertive even brash seems to work. The staff has never gotten involved even when they have been present.
I wish I had been there to support you.
“Being assertive even brash seems to work. ”
That’s the only thing that shuts up a proggie, it’s what they do and understand. Equal+ and opposite reaction, with ‘that look’ in your eye, and they stomp away like an adolescent refused a new video game.