Posted on 03/31/2015 10:31:22 AM PDT by MNDude
Some do/did serve alcohol...not sure if this particular one did.
Couldn’t find any photos by googling “jermele barkley” “chakara watts”, but if the US Attorney General is going to educate me out of my racism (despite my being married to a conservative African-American woman for the better part of 35 years), they’re going to have to insist that the AP issue “guidelines” for “newspapers” (do you still have a birdcage bottom?) to routinely censor ethnically evocative names.
Forgot your sarc tag? Or did you really not know they do serve beer?
Chuck E. Cheese, Beer and Violence
By Rebeldad Brian Reid
There are a lot of reasons to avoid Chuck E. Cheese. I’m no fan of the pizza, the animatronic show is still straight out of 1978 and I’ve had too many tokens swallowed by broken Skee-Ball machines. But, according to the Wall Street Journal, I should count my blessings that my visits to the place have never been marred by an 85-person melee involving pepper spray.
The WSJ piece pulls together a number of anecdotes from across the country in which parents – usually enraged over something kid-related, like the hogging of a game machine – come to blows. Every once in a while, we get a news story about an out-of-control hockey mom or soccer dad, but apparently, nothing touches Chuck E. when it comes to Parents Gone Wild.
While one of the explanations for the pizza-centric violence is the “mama-bear instinct,” in which parents rush to the defense of their children, that hardly seems compelling to me. Kids get poked or pushed or crowded by other kids all the time, and you don’t tend to see fisticuffs during story time at the library.
The actual underlying reason for the violence seems to be — not a surprise — alcohol, which is available at most Chuck E. Cheeses. Alcohol and kids is a pretty dumb mix, and the claustrophobia of the place probably doesn’t help.
I’m no teetotaler, and I’ve certainly quaffed a pinot to two over dinner with friends while the kids sacked out in front of Nim’s Island. But there is a line to be drawn. I’m not a huge fan of a bucket of beers next to the bucket of juice boxes at birthday parties, and the idea of ordering up a pitcher at Chuck E. Cheese is entirely foreign to me. Leaving aside the horror of getting tipsy and doing something dumb, the last thing I need is for my kids to get the idea that part of adulthood is constant access to alcohol.
I’m curious, though, where you draw the line. Is alcohol in front of the kids verboten? Is drinking pretty much fair game at any time, as long as it’s in moderation? Or is there a middle ground?
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/parenting/2008/12/chuck_e_cheese_beer_and_violen.html
More on beer at Chuck’s...
If that had happened here in Texas, where we have “carry” laws, and permits, for gun owners, I guarantee you; someone in Chuck-E-Cheese, would have made sure those thugs had their asses shot off after the first punch. Don’t Mess With Texas.
Is this in the Amish part of Ohio?
I wonder what their middle names are.
Location, location, location.
Go type “Chuckie Cheese Brawl” as a You Tube search. The names are different, but the faces are all the same.
So I’d also bet you don’t need to look.
I’ve taken my kids to the local Chuck E Cheese and it didn’t seem like they had beer. At least I didn’t see it being served to anyone. Maybe they learned their lesson and stopped serving it.
Parma Police, arrest this man...
When it comes to Chucky Cheese, it’s more the class of the people that go there rather than the race. The last time I patronized one of their stores, two big, fat blond women (one holding a boxed extra large pizza to go) were arguing loudly over some slight one of their children had performed against the other’s. The one not holding a pizza b*tch-slapped the pizza-holding one and sent her and the pizza flying across the room. At that point, I rounded up my kids and have never gone back. This was like 20 years ago.
Suburb of Cleveland, locally famous from the sixties and especially from send ups by Friday fright night / really bad movies TV show host Ghoulardi (Ernie Anderson, who later went to Hollywood and became a very successful announcer - voice of Carol Burnett Show and “The Love Boat”) as being stereotypically Polish (white socks and chrome balls on the lawn). The complexion of the town has certainly changed since then.
The Parma police don't take much nonsense and they're pretty good at catching bad actors. This one took some time to catch the bad guys....sure glad they did.
I live in a border area and would be concerned if Parma went the way of some of Cleveland's neighborhoods.
Parma is right next door to Cleveland which has one of the highest concentrations of “Amish”in the state.
Im cutting outta here like a Bat outta Parma!
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