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Author Topic: The Sickest thing ever encountered in the theater Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 08-25-2004 07:57 AM                     A couple years ago we had somebody in a seat during a show. Everybody dreads movies that bring in a lot of little kids, parents fill 'em up with soda and candy then they puke. Many of the midnighters are drugged and or drunk too with the same results.  |  IP: Logged Fred Georges Master Film Handler Posts: 257 From: Lombard, IL, USA Registered: Jun 2000 posted 08-25-2004 09:31 AM                     Just as an aside. Our Janitor used to earn extra dough cleaning up after Rocky Horror. One Saturday night as He was starting a massive cleanup We told Him of our intention of booking in another audience participation Movie that, as it's finale approached, had the audiences crapping on the seats. The manager & I kept our poker faces as He thought about it for a moment. Finally, a disgusted look came over Him. He looked at both of us, shaked His Head & said "MAAAAAAN!!...I AIN'T WORKIN NO SHIT SHOW!!!!" At which point We lost it. We laughed for weeks about that one!  |  IP: Logged Jason M Miller Master Film Handler Posts: 284 From: Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA Registered: Jul 2004 posted 08-26-2004 09:30 AM                     We have free family shows every sat and sun at 10:00 and 11:00 for nine weeks starting sept 11, so I know its going to be bad......Will post here if anything happens  |  IP: Logged Matt Close Expert Film Handler Posts: 226 From: Hervey Bay, QLD, Australia Registered: Sep 2001 posted 08-27-2004 01:11 AM                        A few people have been busted 'rubbing uglies' in the cinemas, but I am sure most of you have had that happen. One day this guy was the only one in a movie...... and must have been enjoying the movie so much that he simply could not miss any of it ...... so much so that he couldn't even leave to take a p!$$ ... so he did in his empty drink cup and left if there for us to pick up!!  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 08-27-2004 07:46 AM                     Better in the cup than on the floor. The last masturbator we caught got 14 months with 90 days suspended, mamdatory legal and pyschological counciling. He had 2 priors in NYC.  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 08-27-2004 08:21 AM                     'rubbing uglies' ???  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 08-27-2004 10:57 AM                    Well yeah, if it wasn't so ugly he wouldn't need to be rubbing it himself.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-27-2004 04:41 PM                     I used to work in a furniture store. Every so often, I'd meet some little old lady walking around with a pained look on her face. I'd ask her if I could help her. She'd say, "I'm just looking at this easy chair/cushy sofa." I'd go away and stand in a corner to wait the next customer and I'd see her sit down for about a 1/2 minute. Then the look of, "Aaahh!!", came across her face. Usually, these old people only sat down to let off a big, stinky fart but there'd be the occasional wet spot after they left. Now you know why the floor samples are sold off at such discounts! My theater just spent $2,000 to have all the seats cleaned. All 825 of them. Most of them were just dirty from 5 years of the usual "Ass dirt" that people track in but there were more than just a few that had big "Pee-Pee" stains. The nastiest thing I know about is at the department store where my mother works. It's one of the May Company stores. She tells me many stories of people shitting all over the floors and walls in the fitting rooms. We don't know exactly why people do this. We can only guess that they had to go but couldn't find the rest room in time. They either went in there for cover while they took a shit or else they went in to clean the shit out of their underwear. Doesn't matter WHY people do it. My mother just takes a broomstick to reach over the top of the door and locks it from the inside. Then she calls housekeeping. It's always one of the new guys who get to do the job.  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 08-27-2004 05:41 PM                     Yeah, my wife works a J.C. Penney, people relieving themselves in fitting rooms is very common, she says at least a couple times a month.  |  IP: Logged Edwin Graf Diemer Film Handler Posts: 47 From: Red Bank, NJ, USA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 08-27-2004 07:59 PM                     I used to be projectionist at the Eric [United Artists] Concordville 4, PA, which is long gone. It was a 1000+ single screener that the chain naturally felt had to be twinned. So they put a cement wall left-of-center, which left a 737-seat house on the right. They threw a curtain over the cement and let it drop into a little wooden tray which came up about 4-6 inches from the floor-cheaper that way! They also installed home-type thermostates in the middle of the walls, and patrons couldn't keep their hands off them. During "Home Alone", it would get so hot that patrons would be throwing up constantly, and of course somebody threw up in the curtain tray. It took weeks to find it, and until I did one night, the stench was disgusting-almost as bad as cleaning it up! We dumped bleach water in the tray and hoped for the best-it didn't hurt much, since the front of the auditoriums were usually flooded anyway because they were below the water table!  |  IP: Logged Mike Pennell Expert Film Handler Posts: 150 From: Tucson, AZ, USA Registered: Apr 2003 posted 08-27-2004 09:21 PM                     Everyone has found the occasional chew/spit cup or the condom while cleaning theatres. But my worst has to be the empty douche bottle sitting in a tub of popcorn.  |  IP: Logged Wolff King Morrow Master Film Handler Posts: 490 From: Denton, TX, USA Registered: Feb 2004 posted 08-27-2004 09:55 PM                        At an old UA theater I once worked for years ago, a man caughed up blood and lung tissue all over the floor in an auditorium. The man died and customers were actually pissed when the show had to be stopped to clean up the mess!  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 08-27-2004 10:23 PM                    How about the random used tampon in a popcorn bucket. Saw that only once thank god.  |  IP: Logged Cory Isemann Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: White Plains, MD, USA Registered: Jun 2004 posted 08-28-2004 01:48 AM                        Bill, would that be the Regency Square store by any chance? I used to work there, I may know her. What a small world.  |  IP: Logged Brent Neal Jones Expert Film Handler Posts: 211 From: Ennis, T.X., USA Registered: Nov 2001 posted 08-28-2004 02:09 AM                     Hell, I've got all y'all beat. When I first started in this business I was working with my mom in an old down-town single screen cleaning up. This is a good time to note that in all of my time in a theatre, I've always had more trouble out of the ladies room. A Ladie left about ten minutes early from a show one evening. She was a big woman in a big hurry. Well, didn't take long for the first complaint to come and the reason for the big hurry to be revealed. She had on the walls, floor, ceiling and the toilet paper holders. She had also stopped up the toilet and cracked it as well. It was leaking in two places. Took two hours, a gallon of bleach and odor-ban to fix this mess and a tube of clear silicone caulk.  |  IP: Logged

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