Posted on 12/09/2008 11:02:50 AM PST by Cecily
In Brookfield, Wis., no restaurant has triggered more calls to the police department since last year than Chuck E. Cheese's.
Officers have been called to break up 12 fights, some of them physical, at the child-oriented pizza parlor since January 2007. The biggest melee broke out in April, when an uninvited adult disrupted a child's birthday party. Seven officers arrived and found as many as 40 people knocking over chairs and yelling in front of the restaurant's music stage, where a robotic singing chicken and the chain's namesake mouse perform.
Chuck E. Cheese's bills itself as a place "where a kid can be a kid." But to law-enforcement officials across the country, it has a more particular distinction: the scene of a surprising amount of disorderly conduct and battery among grown-ups.
"The biggest problem is you have a bunch of adults acting like juveniles," says Town of Brookfield Police Capt. Timothy Imler. "There's a biker bar down the street, and we rarely get calls there."
It isn't clear exactly how often fights break out at Chuck E. Cheese's 538 locations. Richard Huston, executive vice president of marketing for the chain's parent company, CEC Entertainment Inc. of Irving, Texas, describes their occurrence as "atypical," saying he has heard of "four or five significant adult altercations" this year. But in some cities, law-enforcement officials say the number of disruptions at their local outlet is far higher than at nearby restaurants, and even many bars. "We've had some unfortunate and unusual altercations between adults at these locations," Mr. Huston says. "Even one is just way too many."
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Another distraction meant to focus the gullible P.W.’d male of the species into abandoning all hope...
Haha. That’s a good one!
No kids running around in the casinos, though. And us degenerate gamblers tend to be better-behaved than the people who engage in wholesome family time at Chuck E. Cheese, it sems.
I didn’t know The Speedway was a “biker bar”!
...another consequence of the divorce/cohabitation industry. Political parties trying to get the votes of the most common Chuck E. Cheese customers (and those who use public schools as babysitters) won’t get mine.
New meme: Chuck E. Cheese Rage.
When my bairns were but wee ones, I'd volunteer weekly to take 'em to see Uncle Chuck.
Later, as S.W. Houston filled up with cholos, we came to call the place "Carlos Queso" and it lost some appeal.
Meanwhile the beer flows without interference at Chuck E. Cheese kiddie land.
Those darn Amish.
CLUELESS COP ALERT
The bikers want no interaction with the police at all which is why you're not getting any phone calls from them you plank.
MY CHUCKY CHEESE MOMENT: While still on active duty with the Army back in like 1990-91, we had a soldier go home to Texas on leave. He blew all his money and did not have gas money back. So, driving back across Texas, he stopped at like five or six exits along the Interstate and robbed convenience stores. In every case, the description given was, a black guy, so tall, so much weight, and wearing a Chucky Cheese T-shirt. Everyone remembered the CC T-shirt. One finally got a tag number and he was traced to Fort Benning, GA where we were stationed. When the cops came to the post to check this guy out, and the commander allowed a search of his room and area, the Chucky Cheese T-shirt was proudly hanging in his wall locker. Busted. Taken back to Texas to stand trial for armed robbery.
I’d say more likely you are dealing with issues of a domestic nature... IE estranged hubby shows up for kids birthday party (or vice versa) that they weren’t invited to and causes a scene.
lol
You no say, Tonto
'Cause you can whup me.
Wimmins don't fight fair.
My daughter loved the place and wanted to take friends along. I thought the food was fine since you simply cannot screw up a pizza to a single guy and his kid. We went at least 2-3x a year. I even met a cute single mother there one time. But I wouldn’t have been able to stand the place if not for the one or two beers.
Who wants to ruin their drinking time listening to screaming kids...last place I would go to get a beer.
FREERIDER out...
Why was I not told?
You have to endure helping a friend host a party for fifteen screaming three and four-year-olds to learn that secret.
Been there, done that.
Never again.
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