Brawl at Chuck E. Cheese

Baron Scicluna · Feb 19, 2010

The big question is, will the girl go to rehab, then hold a press conference to say she's sorry, then go back to rehab?

Batman · Feb 19, 2010

highlander said:

"My sister and little brother were taking pictures," Juaneka Key told WREG-TV. "The girl said, 'Dang, how long y'all gonna be?'"
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...and that's how the fight started.
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Batman · Feb 19, 2010

Rumpleforeskin said:

Seahawk said:

The part about the stepfather punching the girl seems to be kind of just glossed over a bit.
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Agreed.

cranberry said:

When a melee breaks out in Chuck E. Cheese you want to be within arm's reach of the Whack-A-Mole mallets.
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Why? You'd have to put someone's head underneath them to fully utilize them. You can't stray too far from the game. I'd prefer to use the Skeet(?) Balls.
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For 5,000 tickets, you can get a gun from the prize counter.

forever_town · Feb 19, 2010

Michael Echan said:

You know that Epic Beard Man would have none of this had he been there.
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Nicely played.

canucklehead · Feb 19, 2010

The mere thought of going to Chuck E Cheese makes me physically ill.
Took my three-year-old to a birthday party there just last week.
I must admit, I wanted to punch some people in the face too whle there.

SoCalDude · Feb 19, 2010

Memphis, eh? Was that a birthday party or Dana Kirk's wake?

Double J · Feb 20, 2010

SoCalDude said:

Memphis, eh? Was that a birthday party or Dana Kirk's wake?
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It was at a showing of "The Blind Side."

Point of Order · Feb 20, 2010

Where's that thread with the story about this being a national trend. It was a great story. Anyone remember it?

kingcreole · Feb 20, 2010

highlander said:

"The girl said, 'Dang, how long y'all gonna be?'"
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And I guarantee you, that girl had been waiting next in line at least five minutes if not more. Went to a Chuck E. Cheese's a couple weeks ago. My two little ones wanted to do a roller coaster simulator. So we waited next in line. After a couple of minutes, I asked the elder princess if she wanted to go play against me in Mario Kart. We left to play. We were next in line at the Mario Kart game. After about five minutes of waiting, the kids in front of us had their game end, and the princess and I started our game.

Lasts a little more than five minutes. Halfway through, I get a text message. When the game ends, I check the text message. It's from my wife. The two little ones had at last gotten on the roller coaster simulator. My wife said the kids in front of them kept putting tokens in, and their parents at one time came over to ask if they were having fun. Never told them that other people were waiting.

I too am surprised more brawls don't break out at Hell on Earth.

spnited · Feb 20, 2010

highlander said:

http://www.aolnews.com/crime/article/four-arrests-made-in-chuck-e-cheese-melee/19364418

Four arrests made in Chuck E. Cheese melee

(Feb. 18) -- Police in Memphis, Tenn., arrested four people after a fight broke out during a kids' birthday party at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant.

It began with a dispute Saturday between two families at a photo booth, police said. A girl waiting in line complained about how long the family in the booth was taking, police and witnesses said.

"My sister and little brother were taking pictures," Juaneka Key told WREG-TV. "The girl said, 'Dang, how long y'all gonna be?'" Key, 18, had come to the restaurant to celebrate her 2-year-old daughter's birthday.

Key's stepfather, Terrence Dickerson, responded by punching the girl in the face, sparking a melee that sent other parents and their children scrambling to get out of the way of the escalating fight, police said.

"Other people [began] jumping in that didn't have nothing to do with the fight," Key told WREG.

Witnesses said Key kicked the girl who had originally complained after she hid under a table.

Police led four people from the restaurant in handcuffs. Key and Dickerson have been charged with with disorderly conduct and inciting a riot. Steven Henderson, Key's boyfriend, and Juanita Hopkins, Key's mother, have been charged with disorderly conduct and possession of marijuana.
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Juaneka Key, 18, celebrating her 2-year-old daughter's birthday (do the math)
Stepfather's name is Terrence Dickerson
Mother's name is Juanita Hopkins (guess she's not married to stepfather?)
Mentions boyfriend Steven Henderson -- not baby's daddy?

Welcome to Tennessee.

Point of Order · Feb 20, 2010

Point of Order said:

Where's that thread with the story about this being a national trend. It was a great story. Anyone remember it?
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Here it is:
http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/64642/

hondo said:

http://online.wSportsJournalists.com/article/SB122878081364889613.html

You had to love the police blotter for Chuck E. Cheese. My personal favorite was the elderly woman who threw her shoe at a guy because he was incensed when someone called his kid ugly.

Also love the quote from the cop, that there's a biker bar down the street where they rarely have to send the cops.
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In Brookfield, Wis., no restaurant has triggered more calls to the police department since last year than Chuck E. Cheese's.

Officers have been called to break up 12 fights, some of them physical, at the child-oriented pizza parlor since January 2007. The biggest melee broke out in April, when an uninvited adult disrupted a child's birthday party. Seven officers arrived and found as many as 40 people knocking over chairs and yelling in front of the restaurant's music stage, where a robotic singing chicken and the chain's namesake mouse perform.
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YankeeFan said:

Conduct at Chuck E. Cheese described as 'madness'

JOHN C. WHITEHEAD, The Patriot-News/2008

The wobbly video shows a group of adults mulling inside Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant in Susquehanna Twp. Suddenly it pans left and captures a fight breaking out.

The 22-second clip, uploaded Sunday to YouTube, is the latest example of what police describe as a disturbing and bizarre crime trend: escalating violence among adults at a place designed for children's birthday parties.

Susquehanna Township police have been called to the restaurant on Union Deposit Road 12 times in the past year for reports of disorderly conduct, assault and theft. Those calls have resulted in 13 arrests, including six women -- five adults and a juvenile -- charged with disorderly conduct in a Saturday-night brawl.

In 2007, police responded to the restaurant 18 times for similar offenses.

"It's madness, absolute madness," Susquehanna Twp. Police Chief Robert A. Martin said.

Martin said he believes much of the violence stems from ongoing disputes among people who bump into each other in the restaurant. "They see each other at Chuck E. Cheese, and before you know it an argument turns into something physical."

The assaults also could be attributed to separated or divorced parents who attend a child's birthday party, he said. Such was the case in an April 4 incident, when police accused a man of slapping his estranged wife in the head at their child's party.

The violence at Chuck E. Cheese's isn't isolated to the Susquehanna Township restaurant. Last month, the Wall Street Journal published an article about a growing number of adult melees at locations in Brookfield, Wisc.; Topeka, Kan.; Toledo, Ohio; and Flint, Mich.

The number of calls at the Susquehanna Township location increased from 11 in 2005 and nine in 2006, Martin said. In late March, police broke up a fight involving 20 people.

Other Chuck E .Cheese restaurants in central Pennsylvania have had similar problems.

At the Manheim Twp. restaurant in Lancaster County, a man was arrested March 20 after police said he ran around the restaurant spitting and yelling he had hepatitis C. A week earlier, a 17-year-old Warwick Twp. girl was walking to her car in the parking lot when a man walked up behind her, grabbed her and tried to drag her away, police said. No one has been arrested in that incident.

A call to CEC Entertainment, Inc., which runs Chuck E. Cheese, was referred to the company's legal department in Irvine, Texas. Messages left Tuesday morning and afternoon were not returned.

In April, a company spokeswoman told The Patriot-News all the restaurants have security cameras to help ensure peace of mind for customers and the restaurants' workers who dress as the Chuck E. Cheese mouse mascot.

"As in our other urban, high-density locations, we rely on the local authorities and their advice to control situations such as the ones we have experienced in Harrisburg," spokeswoman Brenda Holloway said.

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2009/01/conduct_at_restaurant_describe.html
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YGBFKM · Feb 20, 2010

spnited said:

highlander said:

http://www.aolnews.com/crime/article/four-arrests-made-in-chuck-e-cheese-melee/19364418

Four arrests made in Chuck E. Cheese melee

(Feb. 18) -- Police in Memphis, Tenn., arrested four people after a fight broke out during a kids' birthday party at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant.

It began with a dispute Saturday between two families at a photo booth, police said. A girl waiting in line complained about how long the family in the booth was taking, police and witnesses said.

"My sister and little brother were taking pictures," Juaneka Key told WREG-TV. "The girl said, 'Dang, how long y'all gonna be?'" Key, 18, had come to the restaurant to celebrate her 2-year-old daughter's birthday.

Key's stepfather, Terrence Dickerson, responded by punching the girl in the face, sparking a melee that sent other parents and their children scrambling to get out of the way of the escalating fight, police said.

"Other people [began] jumping in that didn't have nothing to do with the fight," Key told WREG.

Witnesses said Key kicked the girl who had originally complained after she hid under a table.

Police led four people from the restaurant in handcuffs. Key and Dickerson have been charged with with disorderly conduct and inciting a riot. Steven Henderson, Key's boyfriend, and Juanita Hopkins, Key's mother, have been charged with disorderly conduct and possession of marijuana.
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Juaneka Key, 18, celebrating her 2-year-old daughter's birthday (do the math)
Stepfather's name is Terrence Dickerson
Mother's name is Juanita Hopkins (guess she's not married to stepfather?)
Mentions boyfriend Steven Henderson -- not baby's daddy?

Welcome to Tennessee.
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