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What was the slogan for The Anniversary Party? "It's not a party until something gets broken".

Cobb Edison Park 8, Ft. Myers, Florida - Opening night of "The Doors". I got into an argument with my projectionist (Julian O'Grady). You see, he had keys to the manager's office and he kept coming in when I had lots of dollar bills on the desk. He gave me his keys and told me he was going home. What I did not know was he left our back projection door unlocked so he could get his stuff upstairs. At some point in time a young, drunk patron watching "The Doors" went to look for the restroom. He found the back projection door, went upstairs and pissed on our print of the movie (not to mention the projector, the floor, etc. etc.)My technician loved that late night call - "Uh, could you tell me what kind of damage urine can do to a print?" The young man's friends left him there to be picked up by his parents.

Absolutely true story...............

Last summer (2001), I was working a small Sunday night wedding reception of about 50-60 people. The Bride & Groom were really cutting costs, and chose to have a DJ instead of a wedding photographer. After most of the guests had left (maybe 10-12 people left in the ballroom), the groom came up to me.

He said, "Barry do you ever do favors for people?"

I was thinking, He's old enough to buy his own liquor.. what does he want?

He said, "Nicole and I were looking around the room and realized your the only person here we don't really know that well."

I said, "OK"?

"How long will it take you to pack up your gear", he asked?

I replied,"About 30 minutes".

He then said, "Nicole and I were wondering if you'd come up to our room on the 7th floor when your finished packing up?"

"Up to your room?, I stated.

He then pulled out a wad of $20.00 bills and said, "I've got $150.00 here if you'll come up to our room and videotape us".

I won the "Weddings From Hell" trophy 3 weeks ago for telling that story at the TWSA ( www.twsa.com )meeting.

Oh, by the way... my new $150.00 Macco paint job on the Beretta looks great!!

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Barry Floyd
Floyd Entertainment Group
Nashville, Tennessee
(Drive-In Theatre - Start-Up)

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...the turkey she had hidden under her belly. Nope, not pregnernt, but burned pretty bad from the cooking pan it was in.

Instead of cutting this thing up in advance, they tried sneaking the whole thing in fresh from the oven, and planned on cutting it up in the auditorium.

Needless to say, they didnt stay for the feature, but the rest of the audience had quite a show to remember.

On the weekends we would get a change loan from the bank and run our safe over a couple of thousand dollars from what it was usually during the week. As part of the deal with the bank, we had to have the loan repaid by monday. Occasionally, when business was unexpectedly slow, we would end up redepositing ones and quarters to finish the repayment. Got it? (Not sure how common a practice that is.)

Okay. So one sunday night the closing manager threw a couple of $100 stacks of singles and a few rolls of quarters into the drop safe to be picked up the next morning by the armored car service. The drop safe had a barrel on top with a slot, you turn the knob, and the money spins and falls into the safe. Except the stacks of ones mixed with the quarter rolls and jammed the barrel about halfway through. The manager put some muscle into it, and finally got the thing to spin and the money dropped into the safe.

Enter me the next morning to open. When the armored car shows up, the guard and i open the safe and find 200 1/2 dollar bills all over the safe. The entire bundle of ones were sliced cleanly in half, and they fluttered all over. I gave the guard a fresh bundle of ones to make the deposit correct, and spent the rest of the day matching left hand serial numbers to right hand serial numbers and scotch taping them back together again.

-Adam

However, after the screening was done (I had too much crap to do to watch it myself), one of the floor-staff people came up to the booth and informed me that a man was sitting in that theater, and was not very responsive when spoken to. Apparently, he had been sitting there during the credits of the last evening show of We Were Soldiers, then chose to continue sitting there, and had not moved from the seat since.
Now that had me irritated.
I hurried downstairs, and grabbed a broom before I entered that auditorium. I approached the guy (broom not in plain sight), and asked him if he was aware that the time was past 2AM, his movie had finished playing over two hours previously, and the theater was now closed. The only response I got was that he cracked his eyes open for about five seconds, looked at me strangely, then closed his eyes again.
Before exiting the auditorium, I made sure to make a hell of a lot of noise with the broom, and some metal hand railings. There was no reaction from the straggler.
Odd.
Well, being smart enough to know that something was fishy about the situation, I called the local police. Within three minutes there was an officer at the front door, and two more showed up within seven minutes of the arrival of the first officer.
I directed them to the auditorium, and then watched with well concealed amusement as they led the guy out in handcuffs a few minutes later.
Apparently he was drunk.
I overheard something about 'criminal tresspassing' and 'probation revocation'.

Guess some people just never learn.

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Tonight, I was working on another virus-infected computer. All the doors were locked, and I was the only one in the building.

I then heard doors slam very hard - to the point where I could feel the vibration in the floor. I also heard footsteps. Enough to make my hair stand up on end.

However, there was no breeze outside, and it was the night of the full moon.

Next time I work in the building by myself, I'm gonna bring my .44 magnum!

Oh, well, if it it haunted, it is by a good ghost. The only one I know of that used to work there that is dead now was my predecessor. So, I'll leave my .44 home.

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After the movie he (Russell Crowe) used the booth restroom and did not flush the toilet.

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This reminded me of a story i had almost forgotten about. At a research screening in Arizona of "Braveheart," Mel Gibson used the booth hand washing sink as a urinal (we didn't have a private bathroom upstairs). A lot of his goons stood down the hall and in the stairway to make sure nobody got by while he did his business. Now, here comes the funny part. In an episode of the Simpsons that Mel guest starred in as himself, he makes a joke to Homer about ducking out the back door of the theater and peeing behind the dumpster so as not to be attacked by the crowd. I wonder how common this is for movie stars to have to pee in wierd places.

-adam