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Crapshoot wrote:

kauboy wrote:I was at the AMC theater in the Parks Mall in Arlington with the little lady. We were going to see "The Ugly Truth" (great man's man movie, wife loved it, don't take the kids )
Anyways, while we were getting our tickets, I looked down at the lower corner of the glass window pane, and there it was.
Worded to a 'T', English and Spanish.
I got squeamish...
I mumbled to my wife that I'd have to go back to the car, but then took another look... Sure enough, there was no possible way it was big enough. Easily smaller than 8x11.
So... I had a decision to make. I could walk all the way out to the parking lot and disarm to adhere to an improperly posted sign, or I could disregard it and take my chances if anything unexpected happened.

I don't like disarming when I don't absolutely have to, and I relish the technicalities that make the law so verbose.
You can probably guess which I chose.

So, I have to ask...
Do y'all think I did the right thing, or no?
Has anyone else been faced with this decision there?

( I did find the Parks thread, and saw that the Parks itself isn't posted. I also found the general AMC thread, but didn't find any answer addressing any size issue. 13 pages, maybe I missed it. Apologies if so.)[/quotef
I say ya did good. If the sign is impoperly posted it isn't valid. It would take a "pertinent" representative of the theater to say something to you for it to be an issue.

kauboy wrote:

austinrealtor wrote:IANAL, but if I saw a sign with 1-inch tall capital letters followed by 1/2 inch tall lower-cased letters I think I would say "close enough" and not enter. Why be the legal test case?

To provide the best security to my wife and child that I can. That's enough "why" for me.
"Close enough" isn't close enough to risk their safety. That's my opinion alone, and anyone else is free to disagree.

austinrealtor wrote:

TrueFlog wrote: This brings up a good question - what exactly does "block lettering" mean? Does it simply mean not-cursive, or does it mean something more, such as all-caps? Also, does the 1" requirement apply to all the letters? If a sign uses upper and lower case, a capital 'A' may be an inch tall whereas a lowercase 'a' may only be a half-inch. Would that make the sign unenforceable? (My employer recently posted 30.06's in the parking lot, but only the first letter of each sentence is capitalized, and only the capital letters are 1" high.)

IANAL, but if I saw a sign with 1-inch tall capital letters followed by 1/2 inch tall lower-cased letters I think I would say "close enough" and not enter. Why be the legal test case?

boomerang wrote:

jimlongley wrote:Jury "Guilty in the first degree, of sheer stupidity."

We have a right to be silent. I would let my lawyer talk to the DA for me instead of being stupid.

boomerang wrote:

ScottDLS wrote:Be careful. They may post a "circle slash water" sign and ... class B misdemeanor trespass under 30.05 according to some arguments I've heard on this site.

Many movie theaters prohibit outside food and drink.

USA1 wrote:if you don't make it a habit of getting "outed" all the time , whats there to worry about .

i would have just walked right in too .

i worry more about them noticing all the candy i'm smuggling in from walgreens .