I was on vacation, when I returned, the Assistant told me that an elderly gentleman had an accident in the bathroom. He claimed when he was on the toilet, the seat shifted and his testciles got caught between the seat and the bowl. (I'm glad I was on vacation, because I know I would have laughed.)

It was a Friday night, and as usual, the directionless teenagers had nothing better to do than bother the patrons and staff of the local 10 screen movie theater. I was in the office between shows preparing a deposit when one of the supervisors told me something was going on in the lobby. I got on the radio and called my assistant to meet the supervisor and me in the lobby (they were both female). There were a bunch of teenagers milling around and I decided to check the restroom. As soon as I walked in, every head turned to look at me. I said "There better not be any trouble here tonight." Returning to the lobby, I checked in with the asst. and super. Next thing I know, I hear the "N" word and see arms swinging. I grabbed two kids and threw them in opposite directions, the assistant sat on one that was on the floor, the supervisor had one against the wall and was about two inches from his face saying "just calm down". We threw them all out and called the police. You're thinking "was he crazy to get involved?" The lobby was between shows and full of people coming and going. We weren't trying to be brave, we just didn't want to see anyone get hurt. From then on, we had Police officer in the lobby on Friday and Saturday nights. I know some of you must be thinking "big deal, we've had five people shot at our theater". Well, we were all surprised because this was unprecedented for a small town in Maine.

Little did I know that a flock of rather large seagulls had roosted on the roof of the building underneath the "mushroom" cap of the air intake! Several of the birds got sucked into the HVAC system, and got chewed up! After the blower got up to speed, I heard these strange squeaking, and grinding noises coming from the attic.

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One day I was doing the management thing and had a few people call in sick. Later that evening I was approached by one of the ushers saying "Isn't Johnny supposed to be working tonight?" I said Yes, but he didn't show up. They told me his grandmother was here to pick him up from work. When I went out to tell her that he didn't show up today another usher overheard and said that he was in watching a movie. So of course I go in to that auditorium to get him and find him passed out drunk. I tried to wake him up, but to no avail. Then I got another person so we could take him out of the movie. So we carried him into the lobby, he is still knocked out and we were told by other employees that he said he drank a fifth of JD. We called an ambulance to check him out(by his grandmothers request) and the cops also showed up becuase he was a minor. A few days later I find out that he had severe alcohol poisoning, got his stomach pumped, got arrested that night, and got his probation revoked.

Another one... We have rent-a-cop's at our theatre on weekends and I have seen them take people to the ground on several occasions. Once for swinging on the guard, and the others mostly because they were drunks.

Born On The Fourth July, with it's frequent, rapid panning seemed to make a lot of people sick. The ambulance had to come get somebody just about every night.

It was pretty funny watching these dazed people come walking out of the house, and collapse like a sack of 'taters.

This guy calls the front desk at about 5AM and says, "I'm going to check-out, now." and hangs up the phone. The clerk, not thinking twice, punches up the guy's room and checks him out. The maid goes up to the room bright and early to clean the room to find that the guy 'checked-out' allright! He was sitting in the bath tub with his wrists slashed!

The paramedics were able to save him because he cut his wrists the wrong way. (Across, not lengthwise) He got a bill for cleaning and disinfecting the bathroom!

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