I’ve always wondered about ways to earn additional points for my Regal Crown Club membership. That’s the free points program you can join at Regal Cinemas so that you eventually earn free movie tickets and the like. Wandering around the Regal Crown Club Web site brought me to a page in which I can be a movie theatre monitor and earn points at the same time. Sweet – power and points all wrapped up in one little package!

Here’s how it works – you visit one of the local theatres listed below:

• BRIDGEPORT VILLAGE STADIUM 18 Tigard OR

• LLOYD CENTER 10 Portland OR
• LLOYD MALL 8 Portland OR
• DIVISION STREET STADIUM 13 Portland OR

and tell them you want to participate in the “Regal Guest Response System“. You then carry a paging device which you can use to summon theatre management “if there is a disturbance” or other reason to bring the suits running (you could of course also do it just to be a pain in the ass but you’d probably get tossed out). In exchange for being a whistle blower you get 20 points credited to your Regal Crown Club.

More details from a press release:

One patron may participate for each of the theatre’s auditoriums and for each movie showtime. The Guest Response device is a hand-held pager with four buttons. Each button alerts local management of a different problem such as: sound, picture, piracy or other disturbance. When the patron pushes a button, a message goes to a pager worn by a manager which tells them the nature of the concern, and in which auditorium.

Finally – a way to get mobile phone yapping folks tossed out and get free popcorn! On second thought I could just yell at them to shut up from across the theatre and perhaps start a fight. Fun times either way…