{"id":701967,"date":"2010-03-26T12:32:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T16:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003782"},"modified":"2010-03-26T12:32:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T16:32:11","slug":"cellphone-user-sues-movie-theater-after-arm-rest-hits-her-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/701967","title":{"rendered":"Cellphone User Sues Movie Theater After Arm Rest Hits Her Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/3-26-2010%2012-24-25%20PM-thumb-300x157-38634.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>A woman who was hunched over chatting on her cellphone &#8220;discreetly&#8221; says the movie theater she was in is negligent because an arm rest fell down and smacked her in the head.<\/p>\n<p>It apparently did give her quite a bump on the head because she was taken by ambulance from the theater to a nearby hospital, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Who knew? You go to the movie theaters and the arm rest is going to knock you out. It&#8217;s an unforeseen incident and you don&#8217;t want anybody to go through the pain and suffering I&#8217;m going through,&#8221; [the woman] told the Sun-Times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> The lawsuit claims the theater was negligent because it did not properly maintain the armrests.<\/p>\n<p>When the Sun-Times asked her if she was rethinking that call (because she was probably annoying other people) she was unrepentant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I bent down so as not to disturb anybody,&#8221; she told the paper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/metro\/2121672,showers-suit-cell-movie-armrest-hit-head-032410.article\">Armrest bonks cellphone user on head during movie: lawsuit<\/a> [Sun-Times]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman who was hunched over chatting on her cellphone &#8220;discreetly&#8221; says the movie theater she was in is negligent because an arm rest fell down and smacked her in the head. It apparently did give her quite a bump on the head because she was taken by ambulance from the theater to a nearby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2WC3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}