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Post by The Matthew on Aug 15, 2016 15:10:10 GMT
They can ask you to leave, which can either politally decline or rudely decline - but they cannot throw you out. They can escort you out, for example, by taking you by the arm and guiding you to the door. If you don't cooperate then they also have the option of calling the police, who must assist in ejecting you if asked to do so. |
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Post by Phantom of London on Aug 15, 2016 15:46:25 GMT
They cannot touch you, even to escort you out - if they do it is common assault.
I work in the transport sector and our revenue inspectors cannot lay a finger on a person, even nudging someone to wake them up is assault.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2016 15:51:36 GMT
This may be true, but at the point when you've been asked repeatedly to leave a theatre, and have refused, and the police have arrived, all bets may be off. I'm sure that the absolute nitpicky technicality that the theatre staff can't forcibly eject you is true, but if you think that means you get to stay in a theatre forever and ever no matter what they may say, you really will be in for a rude awakening when the boys in blue get to you.  |
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Post by DuchessConstance on Aug 15, 2016 16:13:11 GMT
They can certainly throw you out if you're being disruptive or breaking a rule - you don't need to physically touch someone to throw them out (though if someone refuses to leave the theatre can and will call the police). Having said that Soho Theatre staff bodily threw a man (extremely drunk and violent) into the street last week.
Gosh, I would have thought this would be the last place anyone would be advocating illegal activity and being disruptive in a theatre! Don't we have about a hundred pages on bad behaviour in theatres?
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Post by The Matthew on Aug 15, 2016 16:25:38 GMT
They cannot touch you, even to escort you out - if they do it is common assault. I work in the transport sector and our revenue inspectors cannot lay a finger on a person, even nudging someone to wake them up is assault. If you ask them to leave your private property and they refuse it's trespass, and you are permitted to use reasonable force to remove them. Your earlier suggestion that they can just refuse and you're powerless to do anything is just plain wrong. How do you think bouncers manage to keep control of drunks? Just stand back and hope they stagger in the direction of a door and fall into the street? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2016 16:28:45 GMT
I actually think that's outrageous that they wouldn't be able to touch you.
I was almost tempted to cause a ruckus the next time I was at the theatre in order to get manhandled.
At my time of life you take what you can get.
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Post by schuttep on Aug 15, 2016 16:34:31 GMT
The ushers and manager can't throw you out, this is correct. But most theatres have at least one or two security staff who can throw you out if you refuse at the request of the ushers or manager. And then, of course, police can also be used to throw you out at a last resort. That's precisely the result I was meaning. The bottom line is - the show ain't going on if they want you OUT. And, as has been noted, the T&Cs make it clear they can - eventually - get you out. |
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