AAAAAUGH. NO.
This is how America has turned into the security theater (so to speak) police state that it now is. You can’t go anywhere anymore without some mall cop going through your purse and metal detecting you.
This is a massive overreaction to one mostly harmless prank done one time in one place (if it even was a prank- bats happen). If there was some epidemic of people releasing bats in theaters, maybe time to look at such measures. What they should have done? Nothing. Send a press release saying, “Hey folks, please don’t do that.”. That worked through all of time until 9/11 when America decided “more police state” was the answer to everything.
Please America, stop putting in draconian and permanent measures for every little thing that happens.
