Talk:Shouting fire in a crowded theater
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hi. i made an edit. it's not pretty. might not be appropriate, but i think it is significant
Perhaps someone may consider disambiguating this article and [Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_theatre]. It might even be better to just redirect the other one here. It would of course consign my very modest first attempt at editing an article to the trashbin of [history] :(, but this one seems to cover the topic better than the other.
I'd do it myself, but at this stage of the game it's beyond what I feel comfortable doing.
Puck 00:31, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
- They need to be merged. A merge notice should be placed. -Husnock 01:11, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
The full and more accurate expression is actually "falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater". If I go to a movie see a fire and inform people of it, I'd actually be a hero. Conversely, if there is no fire, claiming there was one would cause a stampede and people would get hurt.
[edit] Building codes
The article states:
(This ruling preceded the adoption of building codes, and theatergoers faced a real possibility of being unable to escape the building in an emergency due to narrow aisles and jammed doors.)
Does this mean to suggest that the court would have ruled differently today? I hope not! Even with building codes, the dangers of trampling or of not getting out of the building are still all too real. I'd like to remove this line. Comments? --Keeves 18:01, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
