Ryan Bridge: Where is the shame from breaking rules?

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

This is not the most important story that you will hear today, but it grinds my gears.

It's a small, seemingly insignificant event, but I think it speaks to two things that I absolutely hate about the world that we live in right now.

It took place at cinema three in Pukekohe. You might have seen the video on the Herald website.

So, two women and a child go to the movies, they sneak food in, which I know is not the biggest thing happening in the world right now.

We've all done it too, haven't we?

These guys, these entitled prats, let's just call them what they are, they had food, they had drinks, they had snacks, they had hot food, they snuck hot food into the cinema. That's brazen.

The guy working at the cinema goes over them and says, you're not allowed to bring your own food in.

And these guys just are having none of it. First of all, the worker that comes over has an Asian accent, they mock him for, for his race. They sit there and they start berating him: “Oh, you've made my daughter cry. You've made my daughter cry.”

It's his cinema.

The police came and had to escort them out for goodness sakes. They refused to move, they demanded refunds, they carried on eating.

They said, I wish I had my vape here, I'd start vaping and things like that.

The staff said they felt unsafe. They had to turn the movie off, so whoever was in the movie missed out.

People, the cinema has rules. It's clearly signposted apparently five times throughout the cinema complex that you cannot bring your own food.

And so, my feelings: one, if you can't go an hour forty without eating, you probably should. Two, this is a wider issue. It's about people not respecting rules. It's not your property, businesses need to make money otherwise they go out of business and people lose their jobs.

And number three, and this is the most egregious breach for me, they posted it all to TikTok.

Just the audacity to film all of that, berate the poor person working there, and then put it all on TikTok.

It's shameless. And that is what's wrong with us today, we have no shame anymore.

You steal something - Oh, it's the cost of living crisis.

You do something terrible - Oh, it's my mental health.

Where is the shame from breaking rules?

I don't see much of it at Cinema Three Pukekohe, that's for sure.

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