A trip to the movies can be a fun family outing, but if you miss part of the on-screen action, it’s a lot harder to enjoy the experience. That’s why a San Francisco man is suing AMC Theatres — he’s blind, and claims that the chain routinely deprives him of enjoying the movies he goes to with his family by providing shoddy audio-description services.
Despite the fact that AMC Theatres is one of the nation’s top movie theater chains, it’s doing blind patrons no favors when it comes to audio equipment routinely, according to the man, the California Council of the Blind and others in a federal class action filed Tuesday, reported by Courthouse News.
“AMC supposedly offers audio-description devices to blind customers. However, AMC rarely provides appropriate, functioning audio-description devices to blind customers,” the man says in the lawsuit. “Instead, AMC routinely provides the wrong technology when customers request audio description devices, or audio transcription devices that are nonfunctioning or so malfunctioning that they are useless to blind customers.”
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OMG now I've heard everything.
ReplyDeleteOkay.....my mother is deaf. Should she sue the Metropolitan Opera because she can't hear the music and lyrics?
ReplyDeleteAre they suing the car manufacturers as well? Hey, they can sue the Government at Mt. Rushmore as well.
ReplyDeleteReally?
MAYBE your government will provide someone to rub and stimulate you while you watch porn. I'm sure Obama would if he had another 4 years. Give Mathias some time and he'll come up with something to use while freaking out on "medical weed".
ReplyDeleteI can't wait until these days are over. God bless Donald.