Aurora theater shooting: New lawsuit charges Century 16 owner Cinemark with negligence

It was not the theaters fault! He is only do this for the money. Do there really need to be guards everywhere? Let's not stop crazy people from buying guns, lets just blame the establishments that crazies shoot up instead. 

We had guards around earlier in the day when we transferred out the cash from the boxoffice. This doesn't mean we should have had them around for this kind of event. This was just a midnight show, and was going to be confusing anyways with people showing up in costume. And, c'mon, do you really expect us to watch all the doors to keep people from getting in without a ticket?? Get real! People get in that way ALL THE TIME!!!

So what if he had time to prop open the exit door without being seen? So what if he had time to move his car closer to the door and unload all his stuff? And this whole idea of him having enough time to pull out a full suit of body armor and put it on in the parking lot with a gas mask. Why would you expect US to be watching that?? Heck, he could have been putting on a Batman costume for all we knew.

People are yapping about us not being trained for emergencies. Why is that OUR problem? They say we kept the movie running during the shooting. Well, that's what we DO. We're a movie theater! You can't tell us that whenever somebody makes a loud noise, we have to stop the movie and turn on all the lights. Get real, people!

The fact of life is that if we had to worry about your safety we would go broke. The only way we make money is selling you stuff at the concession stand. And there, we are very safety-conscious. We're clean. We don't use dirty cups. If you spill your drink and ice goes everywhere, we make sure nobody slips on it, and we clean it up.

But if there's a huge fire, or a shooting rampage, a tornado, guess what you're on your own. Just like everywhere else, including your rock concerts and football games. People say we should have had some kind of safety procedure. Well the only procedure that works for me is that I'm outta here. Good luck! Don't sue me because I got out ahead of you. Don't point fingers at everybody but yourself! This stuff happens. Live with it. Move on.

Peace out.

No, i worked at theaters for years, even ran the century in belmar, its a fire hazard to lock those doors and in 7 years ive only every seen fights, inappropriate sexual acts, and vandalism. its insane to think the theater was somehow responsible even if there was not a off duty officer working at the time. the most he/she could have done was take him out then and there, would not have been able to prevent the disaster.

If your going to require law abiding citizens to disarm themeselves in a rather public setting then you assume the reponsibilty of protecting them. The "No Guns Allowed" sign posted says it all as well as proves a point of how well criminals follow laws, policies and regualtions. Cinemark should be sued.

Blood in the water, sharks circle.

Fuck no. What's next? Patdowns and metal detectors at movie theaters? Then how am I supposed to sneak my booze into the theater. Might as well start xray scanning the customers at mcdonalds.

Yes, then sue the makers of batman, then sue the maker of his car if he drove there.

Fucking disgusting!!!

 "posed an unreasonably dangerous risk to paying customers such as Plaintiffs because Defendants had failed to ensure that the subject premises were safe and secure for its paying customers and were free of the violent crime and the risk of violent crime."

I guess the message here is if someone ever gets shot at your location, you need to arm the building and any employees, or a fancy lawyer will convince people to sue you. Good thing they didn't re-build the Trade Towers, with this guy around, they would have needed to build it out of material that aircraft can't breach. How about the hospital where victims were treated, do we blame them for not saving them all? Do we blame the ambulance drivers for not getting to them quickly enough? Do we blame the victims who brought children to a theatre with recorded violence in the past for child abuse? I can blame things and people all day, and so can this lawyer, but he makes a living from it.

No, should they have alarms on the emergency exits? Yes. They are not liable for a madman's folly.

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Absolutely not. The theatre did provide police protection to deal with the issues that might typically arise at such a premiere. As for the locks on the theatre doors, those are not intended for security, just loss-prevention (to prevent people from sneaking in the back). I suppose we’re going to have to put signs everywhere now reminding people that you go to a public place at your own risk, whether it’s a theatre, a shopping mall, a sidewalk, or even your own place of employment. Unless you want airport-type security everywhere you go, and want to pay the extra ticket price, higher taxes, or whatever it would take to pay for that, just make peace with the fact that bad things can happen to good people, and there is nothing Cinemark or anyone else could have done to prevent it.

Ambulance chaser. This is ridiculous. NO they should not be held negligent. This makes me disgusted in people. Dollar signs are NOT what we should be seeing. Coming together as a community should be.

It's ridiculous to hold a theater liable for the actions of a madman but I expect nothing less from the slithering pile of ambulance-chasing lawyers we've got in this state. Life has risks and while we strive to minimize those risks, we don't live in a perfect world. Want complete safety, buy a fuckin' bubble and crawl on in.

I don't know. It is uncharacteristic that they would not have Security at a big movie premiere such as that. However, how could they have known a crazed person was going to go on a rampage? This is a sticky situation no doubt. They should however; be sited (at least) for not having the alarm intact on that side door. If it was armed, it would have sounded when that jack off propped it open. So in the end...yeah, I guess they should be held accountable.