Posted on 04/26/2005 8:06:25 AM PDT by Jimmyclyde
Mom: Girls pounded on me at Chuck E.’s By Jennifer Rosinski Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - Updated: 10:22 AM EST
A band of female hooligans roughed up and cursed out a Clinton mother at the Leominster Chuck E. Cheese after she asked to take one picture with her family in the photo booth they had hogged for almost an hour.
``It was like a brawl you'd see at an English soccer game the way they kept hitting her,'' said a disgusted Nelson Lee, the Leominster father of two boys who broke up the assault. ``She was down in the fetal position trying to protect herself and they didn't let up.''
Eduarda Silveira, 27, and Alexandre Flor, 30, were at the packed kids' playland in the Whitney Field Mall with their 11-month-old daughter, Ana Paula Flor, for the first time when violence erupted about 7 p.m. Sunday.
``We were just really afraid,'' said Flor, a Marlboro Realtor.
Flor said Silveira asked the girls if she could cut in and take one picture with her family when it became clear the group of at least five wasn't leaving anytime soon. The girls cursed in response, but got out of the couple's way.
``(Eduarda) was standing behind the machine waiting for the picture when the other girl started to say stupid things,'' said Flor, who recounted the girl's obscenity-laden insults and his pleas for them to stop. ``She jumped up and grabbed (Eduarda's) hair. I was trying to defend her. I had my daughter in my arms.''
Silveira fell to the ground and the girls continued to kick her in the back, head and arms as Lee tried to pull each girl off.
``At one point I had to basically tackle one of the girls and say, `Listen, you need to knock it off,' '' said Lee, who stands 5-foot-10 and weighs more than 230 pounds.
Silveira went to Clinton Hospital after the attack and yesterday showed several bruises, including one on her right arm that runs from shoulder to elbow.
About a dozen state and local police from two towns descended upon the children's haven that opened in January and arrested three females Lee described as ``the most aggressive'' on assault charges. They are Claritza Castillo, 18, and Jennifer Peralta, 21, both of Fitchburg, and a 14-year-old girl from The Bronx, N.Y.
Jon Rice, Chuck E. Cheese's marketing vice president, called the fight an ``unfortunate event.'' He applauded the manager for dialing 911 and deciding to shut the doors at 8 p.m., two hours earlier than scheduled.
``I threw out the picture from the machine,'' said Flor. ``I don't want any bad reminders of that day and that picture was pivotal.''
"Just trying to keep it real."
These weren't "girls"; two of them were adults!!!
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Pull off? I would have gone in swinging for the fences.
AH yes, another example of the idyllic and enlightened Blue Country culture...
Pull off? I would have gone in swinging for the fences.
That's all.
You didn't hang out at Chuck E Cheese when you were 20?
But they weren't married, right?
So he wasn't really committed to be anything to her.
Dan
Also known as Chuck E Disease.
Go there and your kid will get sick, guaranteed.
PS -- to your sentiment, I'm with you, of course. I can't imagine what I'd do if "girls" attacked my wife. But God help me, it'd not be pretty.
Dan
Ewwww...Chucky Cheese. Awful place. Horrible food.
The video of the girl on the school bus getting beat up with all the other kids just watching, one even has his hand holding his cheek, just watching away like it's a game. It's the bstanders that are making me as sick as the perps.
Is that man crying?
They would have left there wearing a Grade A ass kicking.
Yeah, he gambled his life savings away on skeetball.
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