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AMC Theaters Allegedly Calls FBI to Interrogate a Google Glass Wearer
An anonymous reader writes "A Google Glass user was interrogated without legal counsel for a couple of hours under suspicion that he may have been recording a film in the AMC movie theater. Although the matter could have been cleared in minutes, federal agents insisted on interrogating the user for hours. So long for our constitutional freedoms."
Hours of being detained that could have been avoided if they had just searched his devices (which he repeatedly suggested they do): "Eventually, after a long time somebody came with a laptop and an USB cable at which point he told me it was my last chance to come clean. I repeated for the hundredth time there is nothing to come clean about and this is a big misunderstanding so the FBI guy finally connected my Glass to the computer, downloaded all my personal photos and started going though them one by one (although they are dated and it was obvious there was nothing on my Glass that was from the time period they accused me of recording). Then they went through my phone, and 5 minutes later they concluded I had done nothing wrong." Update: 01/21 21:41 GMT by U L : The Columbus Dispatch confirmed the story with the Department of Homeland Security. The ICE and not the FBI detained the Glass wearer, and there happened to be an MPAA task force at the theater that night, who then escalated the incident.
No one likes glassholes, FBI or AMC. And to top it, this glasshole goes to watch 'Jack Ryan, Shadow Recruit'!
May be its punishment for choosing to watch that picture.
Tat Tvam Asi
What the fuck were you thinking going into a movie theater wearing your Google Glass in this time and age. I think you desperately hoped this would happen, probably tried a few other theaters that wouldn't bite first. And finally, you found one that did, giving you a nice story to cry about on all the digital forums. Congratulations, dude, you got your 15 minutes.
You're sitting in a theatre with a camera pointed at the screen, glasshole.
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
We have enough problems with alcohol and prescription drugs, without legalising narcotics just so druggie losers like you can burn your braincells out a bit faster without being hassled by
the law. I'd go the other way and follow countries like China and some arab countries - you deal in drugs and you'll be executed. End.
Uh huh...this IS the USA we're talking about here, where politicians trot out bibles and getting a BJ was nearly cause for impeachment.
Sure its a nice thought but as long as organized religion has control of so much of the country? NOT gonna happen. THIS is the real threat folks, just look at how long Hoover was able to keep an iron grip on the country with his "file cabinet". You really only need to keep files on a couple of thousand people to pretty much control the country, dirty laundry on politicians in some key posts along with certain business leaders and you have the country by the short hairs.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
I wouldn't lose any sleep if tobacco and alcohol were banned - especially alcohol - but the genie is out the bottle with those two. Computer games are an activity, not a chemical you're ingesting whose sole purpose is to alter your brain chemistry - entirely different things.
I'm afraid of the present where someone is asked not to do something, and they whine bitterly that its their right, they're doing nothing wrong, that their mates on the internet will back them up, and that everyone else just doesn't get it.
If only they knew that, actually, we do get that they are all self-righteous massive arseholes.
Normal person with google glass, when asked not to record, would take it off, fold it up and put it in pocket possibly adding an apology.
FYI, there was a comedy show on UK Channel 4 a while ago called Nathan Barley highlighting this kind of hipster attitude. Worth a watch if you can get it.
Which suggests to me that the Glass Hole in question was an incredulous jerk when confronted hopping on his high horse refusing to cooperate, leading to the authorities getting involved. Even movie theater employees recognize that bringing law enforcement in to get rid of somebody is not good for business.
You are lamenting a disparity between local law enforcement and the FBI, and apparently equating movie piracy (which can cost the film industry millions of dollars in lost revenue, and potentially millions in lost tax revenues on the lost movie revenues) and a home burglary which can cost an insurance company several thousand dollars in covered losses...
Yeah, it does say a lot about our priorities.
Ken