--- description: An eyewitness said the woman "flipped out" when the man tapped her on the shoulder at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theater. title: Mace In the Face image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7588ea8e4d482b54/69876819a988ca082d6aaa7d/488587357.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # A Man Watching _Mr Turner_ Got Maced For Asking a Woman To Turn Off Her Phone by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 11, 2014 3:57 AM CUT  Grauman's (TCL) Chinese Theater at dawn, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA Grauman's (TCL) Chinese Theater at dawn, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USADanita Delimont—Getty Images/Gallo Images by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 11, 2014 3:57 AM CUT A man at a California movie theater who asked a woman to switch off her cellphone got far more than he bargained for after she [sprayed mace](http://mashable.com/2014/11/10/man-maced-at-movie-theater-for-asking-someone-to-turn-off-their-cell-phone/ "undefined") in his eyes, _Mashable_ reports. The incident, according to an eyewitness who was sitting nearby, took place at a Monday night screening of the recently released film _Mr. Turner_. The film had just begun at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theater when a man sitting in the back row began requesting the woman in front of him to switch off her glowing phone. When he tapped her on the shoulder after being ignored a few times, the witness said she “flipped out,” accused the man of hitting her and threatened to call the police. Without warning, she then uncapped a bottle of mace and sprayed the man. _Mashable_ reports that the woman sat back down and watched 20 minutes of the movie before security came and escorted her out. [\[_Mashable_\]](http://mashable.com/2014/11/10/man-maced-at-movie-theater-for-asking-someone-to-turn-off-their-cell-phone/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3577379/tcl-chinese-theater-hollywood-mr-turner-man-maced-theater-woman-phone/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3577379/tcl-chinese-theater-hollywood-mr-turner-man-maced-theater-woman-phone/"},"headline":"A Man Watching Mr Turner Got Maced For Asking a Woman To Turn Off Her Phone","datePublished":"2014-11-11T03:57:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:21:08.645Z","description":"An eyewitness at the theater says the woman \"flipped out\" when he tapped her on the shoulder","url":"https://time.com/3577379/tcl-chinese-theater-hollywood-mr-turner-man-maced-theater-woman-phone/","keywords":["movies","Hollywood","Bizarre","Attack","Screening","woman"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7588ea8e4d482b54/69876819a988ca082d6aaa7d/488587357.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7588ea8e4d482b54/69876819a988ca082d6aaa7d/488587357.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"488587357","caption":"488587357","creditText":"Danita Delimont—Getty Images/Gallo Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3577379/tcl-chinese-theater-hollywood-mr-turner-man-maced-theater-woman-phone/","name":"A Man Watching Mr Turner Got Maced For Asking a Woman To Turn Off Her Phone"}}]}] ```