Woman arrested for trying to record 'Twilight' on digital camera
Found on Sun-Times on Friday, 04 December 2009
The 22-year-old Chicago woman faces up to three years in prison after being charged with a rarely invoked felony designed to prevent movie patrons from recording hot new movies and selling bootleg copies.
She was actually taping parts of her sister's surprise birthday party celebrated at the Muvico Theater in Rosemont.
Tumpach was arrested after theater managers insisted on pressing charges, he said. She was charged with criminal use of a motion picture exhibition.
There's footage of she and her relatives singing to her sister, she said. "We sang 'Happy Birthday' to her in the theater," Tumpach said.
Yes, two nights in jail and maybe up to three more years for having a birthday party at a theater. And managers wonder why people don't go to the theaters anymore. Talk about being out of proportion. I guess she's still lucky because so far, the music industry hasn't joined the lawsuit because they performed "Happy Birthday" in public. In case anybody wonders where that happened: Muvico Theaters, 9701 Bryn Mawr Avenue, Rosemont, IL 60018-5210.