It's a bad idea. As others have illustrated, none of us are able to know when someone's call is an emergency or not, and it's not our business.
My only phone is a cell phone. If I'm not at work, I have absolutely no way of getting in touch with anybody other than my cell. Unless I want to leave my house and walk down the block to a pay phone. And I don't.
In NYC it'd be even more difficult. What about people who live above restaurants? Do their cell phones get jammed too?
I support the legislation but I think it's going to be hard to enforce...in a darkened theater it'll be damned near impossible to enforce without making a bigger scene than the scene that happened in the first place.
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