Posted on 04/02/2022 3:48:08 PM PDT by simpson96
PEORIA (Heart of Illinois ABC) - Chaos at the Peoria Chuck E. Cheese where food, drinks, and punches were thrown.
Police said one adult and one juvenile were arrested at that location and the night before 6 people were arrested at another fight at the Landmark Recreation Center.
Residents said the fighting concerned them and made them rethink where and when they came out.
“I find that I wouldn’t go to the mall at night time cause I know there was a lot of fights there too,” Mapleton resident Lisa Sweet said.
“We want to go places with our families and not have to worry about things like that happening,” Peoria resident,” Jeabria Lester said.
Both of the weekend fights had something in common; they happened at places where children frequent leaving some asking witnessing these fights affected our youth.
“For the children who that is not a typical part of their experience, those types of situations can be very overwhelming for them,” Clinical psychologist Barbara Toohill said. “For the children who maybe have been exposed to more of those types of situations in their lives, unfortunately it contributes to some desensitization.”
Toohill said any violence could negatively impact children, but violence in places that are expected to be safe poses an additional threat to mental health.
“For any of us, if no place was safe, we would all develop just always being on edge, always carrying some tension.” Toohill said.
Police Chief Eric Echevarria said he was disappointed with the fights and the adults that fought and recorded it.
“In our community they need to be responsible for what’s happening,” Echevarria said. “Is Chuck E. Cheese the place now that we need to be walking through every day and making sure that people are acting accordingly?”
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A lot of this brawling is ghettopotamus on ghettopotamus. Men are kinda optional in hood family life.
Ditto.
Both my daughters and some of their friends had birthdays there. It was hectic, but they loved it. A good time.
We parents never considered it would be a good place to throw down.
When a babymama finds out her babydaddy had other babymamas. And they’re all at c.e.c. together.
I remember when they had the singing gorilla! What was his name???
It is a wonder more fights do not happen.
"Imagine all the parents
Burning down Chuck E. Che-e-ese
You may say I am a psycho
But I am NOT the only one...."
Well, I believe it depends on your definition of the word “people”.
Same here. My wife was just showing me, a while ago, a picture of our two daughters with just their faces sticking out of the ball pit. A cute picture from a better era…
I can’t argue with your point of view. A little cynical maybe, but it IS a valid one.😛
Chuck E Cheez Thunderdome!!!
This was during the pandemic, and the putt putt center said they never experienced anything like it, in over 30 years of business.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdbCJeNhOxg&t=52s
That’s a great Idea! I’m sure your kids are happier, and you are not making Cheezy Chuck richer!
It was fun back then, but they were, like, 4 and 7 years old. It was hectic, but nothing like today. Now they’re in their 30s, and one is getting married in a few weeks 😀!
This was during the pandemic, and the putt putt center said they never experienced anything like it, in over 30 years of business.
Would be wrong to call these folks “inner city” types - they behave the same whether in suburbia or ruralia.
My childhood mall (Green Acres, Valley Stream, NY) was the first thing that popped into my mind when Chris Rock made that joke. I loved his follow up -“all they have are sneaker stores and baby clothes at the black mall.”
No, I don’t know what you’re saying. So please stop asking. God this country is so doomed.
When they build one of these units, it should have a basement with ten foot ceiling, and the first floor should be constructed so that sections can be ‘dropped’ sending the out of cage animals into the basement where they can just devour each other.
The brawlers had to make do with fights at the drive-thru window during COVID. Now that the dine in option is back, so are the Chuck E. Cheese brawls.
When they build one of these units, it should have a basement with ten foot ceiling, and the first floor should be constructed so that sections can be ‘dropped’ sending the out of cage animals into the basement where they can just devour each other.
Or large nets dropping from the ceiling in sections. Then proceed to roll or place them outside, and they can figure how to get untangled. This destructive behavior of beating up people and destroying property is taking too much of a toll on society.
No, I don’t know what you’re saying. So please stop asking. God this country is so doomed.
No idea what you’re talking about. I didn’t ask you, anything.
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