Arrested for asking for quiet in cinema
`An Australian tourist has been charged with assault after telling a Texas woman to stop talking on her mobile phone at the movies.
Pauline Clayton was enjoying a matinee screening of Brokeback Mountain in a Texas cinema when her day suddenly turned ugly. [..]
“I put one finger up to my mouth to shoosh her,” Ms Clayton said.
“She ignored me – I then leaned across and touched her with three or four fingers on the top of her arm.”
When the “very large” woman failed to end her call, Ms Clayton again touched her on the shoulder and that was when the woman exploded.
Ms Clayton said the woman stood up over her, started shouting expletives at her and then stormed out of the cinema, in the town of Webster, just outside Houston.
A short time later two Texas police officers walked into the cinema and escorted Ms Clayton out.’
