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Desperate Man with Dying Phone Jumps on Broadway Stage to Revive It

posted by cmn32480 on Saturday July 11 2015, @07:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the i-have-the-power dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Man's hierarchy of needs has changed:

A man attending a performance of the Broadway play Hand to God decided that he needed a little more juice on his iPhone—just before the play started. So, because any outlet is fair game when your battery icon is flashing red, he climbed up onto the stage and plugged his phone into a prop wall with a prop outlet and walked away. Of course, the outlet—like the wall—was fake.

According to the New York Post, the crew had to stop the pre-show music and make an announcement to the audience that that sort of thing isn't allowed. One audience member copped to "loudly heckling the idiot" when the ushers removed the phone and asked him to take it back.

After Hurricane Sandy legions of iPhone and other smart phone owners camped out in the Long Island malls, recharging at outlets normally used for floor waxers. What's the most desperate scene of Dying Battery Panic Syndrome you've witnessed?

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by K_benzoate on Saturday July 11 2015, @07:54AM

    by K_benzoate (5036) on Saturday July 11 2015, @07:54AM (#207807)

    This would have been hilarious to witness and would have enhanced my evening immensely. And isn't this sort of rowdy, irreverent, behavior is just a return to live theatre's historical norm? We've all gathered to watch a bunch of costumed adults play make believe on a stage; don't take it so seriously.

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  • (Score: 2) by No Respect on Saturday July 11 2015, @08:52AM

    by No Respect (991) on Saturday July 11 2015, @08:52AM (#207811)

    I doubt the guy was rowdy in any way. Just posessed of an extreme sense of entitlement.

    I heard somewhere else that the outlet wasn't even live, it was a fake outlet in a wall on a set.

    • (Score: 4, Touché) by dyingtolive on Saturday July 11 2015, @09:26AM

      by dyingtolive (952) on Saturday July 11 2015, @09:26AM (#207819)

      Perhaps you heard it a screen higher?

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