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Author Topic: Weirdest thing found in theatre? Barry Floyd Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1079 From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-13-2010 09:37 AM                        Being a drive-in, we tend to find just about everything. Shoes, various articles of clothing (outer-wear and under-wear), lawn chairs, blankets, tons of cell phones, various car parts, toys and action figures. We have a whole shoe box full of lighters. One night we found a pillow case left on the ground on Screen 2 that had a Nintendo DS gaming system in it and a whole zippered pouch full of games. Waited 3 weeks and no one called or emailed - so I gave it to my boys. Last year I found an Ipod loaded with songs. Never heard from anybody so we decided we were gonna keep it. When I plugged it in to my computer, I found an email address embedded into the information of one of the songs and rightfully returned it to the 11 year old girl who it belonged to. Grossest thing was a soiled "adult diaper" left lying on the field, and just last weekend - somebody took a in the field next to one of the parking posts. How do you do that and not get noticed? That's what God invented rubber gloves for..  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 04-13-2010 02:46 PM                        A couple of Thursdays ago, I was getting ready for the films that would play in each auditorium the next day. The outgoing film on our large giant screen was Chloe (flat) and the incoming film was Girl with a Dragon Tattoo or some such nonsense (scope). So I traveled downstairs to adjust the masking (we do not have motorized masking) and as I opened the auditorium doors and walked in, I noticed a guy sitting in the very back. He did not seem startled in any way by my sudden appearance. I informed him that the last show was over and that we were getting ready to close. No response. I asked him if he was waiting for something. One word "Yeah". I asked what he was waiting for. No response. I told him that nothing would be happening and that it was time to leave. No response. I told him that I was going to go get my manager, which I did. So I went and got the assistant and he came in and asked the guy similar questions and got similar responses, meaning next to nothing. He definitely seemed out of it, but not in a stoned or drunk way. So we called mall security and they came in and asked him questions and got similar responses. He still wouldn't budge until he saw the "badge" that the mall cops have. Then he got up and left. According to the mall cop, his pants were unzipped. I am curious why he didn't at least zip them up when I told him I would be back with my manager. Weirdo. On Friday (I think) I happened to be standing by our projector showing The Hurt Locker (yes, we still have it and yes, people still come to see it). I was curious about how many people were in the auditorium, so I stepped forward and looked down on the crowd. In the second-to-back row I could see a couple, the female was straddling the guy. A few seconds later the female saw me and got off, then the guy looked up and saw me. I don't think they were unclothed (yet). They moved to the very back row. There were other customers in the auditorium as well. I told another employee about it and she went in and looked and said that they "weren't very young".  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-13-2010 03:41 PM                     quote: Joe Redifer I am curious why he didn't at least zip them up when I told him I would be back with my manager. I would have thought the answer to that was pretty obvious...you had your tight jeans on again, didn't you?  |  IP: Logged Ian Parfrey Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1049 From: Imbil Australia 26 deg 27' 42.66" S 152 deg 42' 23.40" E Registered: Feb 2009 posted 04-13-2010 04:51 PM                     What?!? That's disgusting. How could anyone do that sort of thing and get away with it? It beggars belief that people would do that sort of thing and not feel at least a bit guilty. Don't they have any shame?? I mean, still running "Hurt Locker"? That's just not on.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 04-13-2010 06:28 PM                    The guy was on top when I found the couple at our theater. Very top row of a stadium seating theater, while the movie was running. I sent security in. The guy popped up, pulled up his drawers and sat down with amazing speed and dexterity. The girl laid there with no bottom on exposed for all to see until she stumbled up and got her panties and skirt all re-situated. Our guard basically said to them... "you can't do that here."  |  IP: Logged Joshua Waaland Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: Cleveland, Ohio Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-14-2010 11:05 AM                     We had three drunks come in one night and go into a theater. One of them came out to use the restroom and he went into the wrong theater when he came back. Their wasn't even a film playing in that theater since it was after the last show of the night. When our manager did her rounds she found him passed out in the aisle and his friends had left. Another time I walked into a theater to do a check and there were three teens in the theater by themselves. Two boys and one girl. One of the boys was having with the girl in the aisle and the other boy was just watching the movie a few seats away. When I came in they quickly went back to their seats.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 04-14-2010 12:29 PM                     quote: Joe Redifer I was curious about how many people were in the auditorium, so I stepped forward and looked down on the crowd. In the second-to-back row I could see a couple, the female was straddling the guy. A few seconds later the female saw me and got off, then the guy looked up and saw me. If I had been in that situation and if there was no projector port glass in the way I would have attempted a Peter Ustinov impersonation and told the guy, "oh come now, Spartacus, we must be willing to share our pleasures."  |  IP: Logged Joe Elliott Master Film Handler Posts: 497 From: Port Orange, Fl USA Registered: Oct 2006 posted 04-14-2010 12:59 PM                     Way back in '86 when I was just an usher . . . We had 3 teenage couples come in and buy tickets for a kids show during a 7:00 set. They had wanted tickets to a R-rated movie, but it was sold out, and they weren't of age anyway. They get their tickets torn, and walk right into the R-rated movie anyway. The manager relieves the usher on podium and waves to me also. He tells us both to go in there and get them out. We walk in and the three couples are buck naked down on the floor in front of 300+ people having sex. They were quick because from the time they walked past podium to then, had been at most 1 minute. The other usher shouted "Hey" (he said that it surprised him so much, that he couldn't think of anything else.), and the three couples grabbed their clothes and ran out the bottom exit. At least they did it in the R-rated movie, and not the kids show!!  |  IP: Logged Robert D Hall Film Handler Posts: 65 From: Abingdon V.A USA Registered: Mar 2010 posted 04-14-2010 03:02 PM                        My theater is close to a town that the application trail passes through Damascus VA. and we get a lot of hikers in the summer.So one day i find a single burner propane stove with a pot of beans on it.It had just been left there.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Jorgenson Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1002 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Feb 2005 posted 04-14-2010 03:05 PM                        quote: Joe Redifer the female was straddling the guy. A few seconds later the female saw me and got off hmmm, oh nevermind, that's too easy  |  IP: Logged Don Furr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 509 From: Sun City, Ca USA Registered: Nov 2002 posted 04-14-2010 04:21 PM                     Picture it....Marietta, Ga....the winter of 1992 (January), Town and Country triplex $$ house, our first theatre. Only two tickets sold to screen #2. Ha Ha, no need to check on only two people. After the show was over and I was checking the doors, etc. there was the "fixings" minus the meat from a four foot Sub sandwich on the floor. I'm talking tomatoes, lettuce, pickles, onion, etc. I knew what I was looking for as soon as I walked into the rear of the theatre. That very strong odor of a sub sandwich. I'm guessing the jumbo sub was hidden under someone's long overcoat.  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 04-14-2010 07:13 PM                     Couple of years ago I found a condom inside a customer comments box. That was fun to say the least.  |  IP: Logged Alastair Comrie Film Handler Posts: 28 From: Auckland, New Zealand Registered: May 2007 posted 04-14-2010 09:20 PM                     I had a call telling me one of the ushers saw a couple go into the elevator on one floor and not come out again. I went to investigate and heard suspiciously non PG so I went and flicked the breaker so the doors locked open and the bright emergency lights came on. Then I made them walk out down the stairs in front of all the candy bar staff to leave. They have yet to come back...  |  IP: Logged Louis Belloisy Expert Film Handler Posts: 120 From: morris, ct usa Registered: Jun 2006 posted 04-15-2010 01:49 PM                        About a year ago one of our ushers found a large soda cup filled to the brim with loose crap. To this day we marvel at how that person was able to defecate in a cup. And only a few weeks ago, we found a pair of jeans on the floor of the same theater that was full of . that person had a bout of massive explosive defecation. but how did he or she get home with no pants. Louis  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 04-15-2010 05:20 PM                     Louis, that wouldn't be theatre #2 would it? We had a woman take a dump in the corner of our theatre #2. She insisted that it wasn't her, but had brown tracks down her legs. The police were not amused.  |  IP: Logged

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