Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police

[vienna]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110518/us_yblog_thelookout/loud-cell-phone-talker-removed-from-quiet-car-by-police

I am glad to see this happening; overly loud or inappropriate louts who seem to believe the world needs to hear their business should be silenced and, if necessary, fined. I live in Los Angeles and make use of the Beverly Hills Public Library from time to time. Beverly Hills is a small city in L.A. county and only has one branch paid for and built by the City of Beverly Hills. The library is modern beautiful, modern, well equipped and well kept unlike the library branches in the surrounding city of Los Angeles. However, being Beverly Hills, there are a lot of people who are wealthy and they and their families seem to think they can do as they please whenever they please, including using cell phones, loudly, in the library. Beverly Hills has a ban on cell phone use in the library and really does enforce it. There are police guards in the library and when they see cell phone use or it is reported that someone is using a cell phone in a loud manner they are asked to stop. If they refuse, they are removed from the library immediately. I have seen this happen and the response from the other patrons in the area has been uniform approval. What is disturbing is the attitude of those using cell phones who seem to think that their call is somehow exempt from the rules; the amount of resistance and abuse the officers get from these people makes me appreciate the difficulty of their jobs in dealing with these jerks. I would love to have a device that I could point at the offending phone and render it useless for about an hour...

[rant over...]