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Author Topic: Weirdest thing found in theatre? Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-04-2003 09:32 PM                        I Was Not  |  IP: Logged Dino Panagiotopoulos Expert Film Handler Posts: 139 From: Windor, Ontario, Canada Registered: Jan 2003 posted 02-04-2003 09:39 PM                     I definitely think Angela is our winner here!  |  IP: Logged Mike Fitzgerald Expert Film Handler Posts: 224 From: Castle Hayne, NC, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 02-04-2003 09:40 PM                     I used to run a drive in upstate NY and I would always have the janitor use a pair of gloves to clean the lot. I had a Tuesday special and one Tuesday I had some girls set up a tent in the back of the lot and go into business for themselves. I had the off duty sheriff shut them down they were most likely making more money than I did that night. I also had a couple that came in once a week and were engaged at the drive in. The drive in was the Marcy Drive In and the following year they introduced me to their daughter Marcy.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 02-04-2003 10:03 PM                    Angela, don't you believe in food safety?  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 02-04-2003 10:26 PM                     Money seems to be a slightly common thing here... About 20 years ago, two ushers found a briefcase with over $10,000 in it. They had only counted it that far, when a guy called on the phone about two hours after the show, correctly identifying the case and the theater it was in, saying he'd forgot it. The ushers (both about 20 years old at the time) were of course hoping no one would claim it, and had finally started counting it, but were honest and said they had it. The guy said he was very happy, and would give them a reward. He arrived, took the case, and gave them a tightly compressed, crumpled-up ball of bills. He then left quickly. Their reward was $23 in singles.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 02-04-2003 10:54 PM                     In a drive-in, we found some condoms glued to the speaker poles. The owner told me to remove them. My reply was "In a Pig's butt, I will.." That was the best and most pleasent way I could say NO, and have him understand that word. He got mad at me, and removed them himself....  |  IP: Logged Dave Macaulay Film God Posts: 2321 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Apr 2001 posted 02-05-2003 08:14 AM                     glued?  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-05-2003 08:23 AM                        quote: A Guy Thing - My usher found a banana with a condom on it. We figured the handler was "experimenting." To stop it from having little bananas, perhaps? Or maybe it was someone's entry for the Turner Prize? When we were given the obligatory condom demonstration during the sex education lesson in high school, the 'prop' used was a cricket stump. Talk about a sticky wicket...  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 04-11-2010 09:02 PM                 It has been 2622 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Andy Linde Film Handler Posts: 19 From: Nelson, New Zealand Registered: Mar 2010 posted 04-11-2010 09:02 PM                        Aside from the usual money, alcohol bottles, phones, glasses, we have found 2 used tampons and a joint  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-11-2010 10:28 PM                        I was going to post in this topic before but never did. I found a joint also, on the balcony stairway. The funniest thing I ever found was a sleeping teenager. We've had post-show sleepers before, but this kid was sacked out across 4 seats in the 3rd row from the front, after a midnight show, and couldn't be seen from the back of the auditorium. What made it funny was, he was from Colstrip (35 miles away) and all his friends had left without him! I left him sitting on the bench outside the theatre, cussing at his friends on his cell phone. Good thing I did my usual 'walkaround' after that show!  |  IP: Logged Galen Murphy-Fahlgren Master Film Handler Posts: 405 From: Canton, MI, USA Registered: Oct 2007 posted 04-12-2010 06:21 PM                     I've found all the usual beer and liquor bottles, snuck in pop and food, and all that sort of thing. Actually, one of my ushers found an empty bottle of cheap white wine once, which is unusual. The thing that sticks out in my mind the most, though, is something I found while cleaning after the Halloween remake on opening weekend. I picked up from under a seat what looked to be a cardboard courtesy tray full of chili, and was immediately perplexed both at how much "chili" there was, and how warm it still was. Only then did I realize that it was someone's vomit that they had decided to leave under a seat, and I let loose with profanities. Fortunately, the theater had been vacated of customers by this point, but my boss and coworkers were much amused.  |  IP: Logged Elise Brandt Expert Film Handler Posts: 160 From: Kuusankoski, FIN/ Kouvola, Finland Registered: Dec 2009 posted 04-12-2010 11:21 PM                     Hmmh, the usual of course. Wallets, mittens, money... and the weird thing is how often you find one shoe. I think one rubber boot sat in the box for two years before someone threw it out. One sneaker, one high-heeled shoe... how on earth do you leave one shoe behind?? Just about two weeks ago, someone left a motorcycle helmet. Nobody came to collect it. Helmet, it's a thing you notice missing when you drive the bike from the theater, yes? Geesh... and I just heard a staff member tell a story I hadn't heard before; a cleaner once found a briefcase full of money and a contract, seems the guy was on his way to buy a house. The money found its owner because the cleaner looked him up and called him, he didn't even come back looking for it himself! Again, a thing you notice missing when you get to the bank, yes?  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 04-13-2010 12:10 AM                    quote: Original Question Weirdest thing found in theatre?  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-13-2010 12:41 AM                     I did not find a baggie half full of weed. It could have been a good quarter ounce of more. But if I did find a bag of dope I would have thrown it into the garbage can because that sort of thing is illegal. Isn't it?  |  IP: Logged

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