The Violence of Chuck E. Cheese

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel online ^ | Dec 26, 2003 | unknown

[AngrySpud]

More than 40 times this year, police have been called to investigate incidents at an establishment, but it's not your ordinary problem-plagued gin mill.

It's Chuck E. Cheese, the pizza, games, and birthday party paradise adored by children. But Chuck E. Cheese has become, at least for some adults, a place where the frenzy of Skee Ball, pizza, alcohol, and manic children translates into emotional overload.

"The majority of the problems come from the adults, family members and friends who are there for the birthday parties", town police SGT Imley said. "It's not the kids".

[AngrySpud]

I smell a 'rat.

[petercooper]

I will never step foot in a Chuck E. Cheese

[Joe Bonforte]

It would help if the right URL were posted:

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wauk/dec03/195498.asp

[UB355]

I live five or so miles from this venue. The calls I hear over my scanner are really unbelievable. It's a jungle out there.

[Lazamataz]

You missed an article.

[xrp]

HEEEEEEEEEEEY KIDS!

[MotleyGirl70]

Okay back when I was a teenager we had guys working CC and they would rig 2- 1/4 barrels of beers on a weekly basis. It was kick ass. $5 all you can drink all night at our friends house! Mmmmmmmm....many of those I don't recall.

:)

[tet68]

I will never step foot in a Chuck E. Cheese

Only tripping on reallly good acid, then someone would have to tie me up first, and drag me kicking and screaming in there, after that I'd be ok.

[MotleyGirl70]

You're such a smart ass all the time!

[EggsAckley]

Hey, at least he's consistent!!

~</;o)

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

It's not the alcohol.

Yeah, right!

[MotleyGirl70]

Tripping on acid and going to CC is NOT a good thing...you should be at a Dead concert for THAT! It's a mad house in there, and I only went there because my friends in h.s. worked there. Ick. All those screaming out of control children.

I was playing softball with my Dad during those times, not rolling around in colored balls!

[MotleyGirl70]

Just waiting until he gets "suspended" again.

:)

[Lazamataz]

You're such a smart ass all the time!

Ain't I a stinker?

[MarkL]

I smell a 'rat.

Nope! It's the moles! There are too many "Whack-a-Mole" games at Chuck E. Cheese pizza joints! That's it!

Mark

[SkyPilot]

OK--enough. Americans must stay away from Chuck E. Cheese (too much violence and crime), WalMart (people will take a baseball bat to you for cutting in line), ChiChi's,......anything else?

Sheesh. Give me a break. Sounds like some journalists need to get busy researching more meaningful subjects and leave this silliness behind.

[auntdot]

Put me in a CC for thirty minutes and they would have to call 911 too.

[Orangedog]

When my daughter was little I made the mistake of taking her to a similar franchise...Discovery Zone, or I as called it, Adult-Torture Zone. The thought of the place gives me night sweats to this day.

[Stonewall Jackson]

In regards to your tag line, "No lightspeed?!?"

[Zipporah]

I took my children to Chuck E. Cheese ONCE.. and ONLY once. Place drove me insane.. way too much stimulation IMO for kids.

[MotleyGirl70]

It is when it's stolen out the back door for friends to charge OTHER friends $5 bucks to drink. Cool at the time. Now I like staying home and having one to three cold Heineken instead of 10 Miller High Lifes. LOL!

/beer criminals!

[Hacksaw]

A comedian on Def Comedy Jam said Chuck E. Cheese is the place where you can get away with a felony.

[Hacksaw]

I hate than damn mouse.

[Viking2002]

Hmm. Looks like an Al Queda plant to me........LOL

[Lazamataz]

Just waiting until he gets "suspended" again. :)

Keep waiting.

[MotleyGirl70]

One of my friends was hording money from the game part of the place and she was toatlly busted!

I felt bad for her but I laughed,it was the bust of the century!

[Lancey Howard]

My cholesterol level triples when I just drive past a Chuck E. Cheese.

[Triple Word Score]

Worst pizza ever.

[JoeSchem]

I smell a 'rat.

My first inclination is that Chuck E. Cheese is getting a publicity smear job because it's behind in its campaign contributions to a politician with connections to this particular newspaper.

[jagrmeister]

It should be added entertainment for the kids that the adults are punching each other out at Chuck E Cheese.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Hmmm... why is it this one and not the one in the next town.

Well, the Milwaukee Daily Worker isn't going to notice the obvious, but one patron was punched immediately after he addressed another as "Boy." This makes a certain cultural implication almost unavoidable, unless you are a modern ultra-PC newspaper hack.

Trust me, amble down the street calling men "Boy" and you will not make friends anywhere, but do it to black men and you are asking to be thumped.

Then there's this; Chuck E. Cheese has had two assaults, several verbal confrontations and five cases of suspected child abuse this year, police reports say.

"Suspected child abuse." In plain English that means some other (usually childless, of course) busybody doesn't approve of how you relate to your kids. Just last week, I watched a woman in a grocery store try to call 911 because somebody's 2-year-old was screaming blue murder. The kid's father wasn't being cruel or unreasonable, he just had a daughter throwing a tantrum, which is something you can relate to if you, or anybody you know, has had a 2 year old. But no, this barren bimbo was going to call the cops: "that baby wouldn't be crying if he wasn't hurting her." Yeah right, he probably "hurt her" by saying no to sugary cereal or something... what an old meanie.

As far as assault goes, there was a time when a guy who got socked in the eye would stand up for himself, instead of call the cops. What we have here is women who know squatto about kids (!) but can't help projecting their opinions on the subject, and men, some of whom won't defend themselves (!) and others who act like beasts around women and children(!), neither of which is manly behaviour.

For me it's hard to blame these markers of social decline on a children-oriented restaurant, no matter how bad the damn pizza is.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Ol' Sox]

Ugh. My wife and I took our niece there for her birthday a few years ago. The noise, the heat, the crappiest pizza on the planet and the excitement caused one little kid to hurl at the table.

We've called it "Up-Chucky Cheese" ever since.

[hasegawasama]

Why did this happen?!?!?!?!?

[freemama]

I've been to this particular place twice. Once a year and a half ago on a Saturday for a birthday party of my daughter's classmate. Seemed pretty much of a zoo to me. Next time was on the last day of school in May. I took my own kids for lunch and an hour of games. It was real tame because most schools were still in session. We had a great time that day.

It's all in when you go. Never on a weekend. Never for a birthday party.

[TheMole]

Chuck E. Cheese is OK. The trouble is caused by his little brother Dick.

[usmom]

We had a b-day party there for my daughter several years ago on the day after Christmas (b-day is the 27th). The place was deserted and everyone had a great time. However, we went about a year ago and she got sick later that day. I don't think it was the food, since we all ate it, but to this day she is convinced that Cc makes her sick and that has cured her of the 'take me to cc'!

[cmsgop]

not rolling around in colored balls!

LMAO! I had a friend who managed one of those CC's. He would tell me about things he would find in the ball pit that you would not believe!

[stands2reason]

ChiChi's,......anything else

What's wrong with ChiChi's? Besides the obvious....

[Diverdogz]

...you should be at a Dead concert for THAT!

The ultimate adult playground. Those who know, know.

[mollynme]

One of the few people on our state's death row is there because of killing 4 people at a Chuck E. Cheese several years ago.

[HungarianGypsy]

When I was 10 I threw up after a Chuck E. Cheese birthday party. Haven't gone back since. Not that you really wanted know that, but now you do.

[cmsgop]

Also apparently alot of kids diapers fall off on the slide..

[mrfixit514]

Anyone heard Tim Wilson's "Chucky Cheese Hell"?

I got combat training from overseas

Now I'm a bouncer at the Chucky Cheese

But I think I'd rather spend a year in jail

Than another afternoon in Chucky Cheese Hell

Momma drives Chipper to the Chucky Mall

and watches him waller in some plastic balls

The band sucks and the pizzas cold

And you eat it with a slobering 4 year old

Chucky Cheese Hell

I'm in Chucky Cheese Hell

Squalling younguns and a skeeball bell

In Chucky Cheese Hell

Lined up out the door like the Stones are in town

Ain't enough Chucky Ass Whooopings to go round

In Chucky Cheese Hell

I did two tours of duty in Vietnam

Fighting VC and breathing Napalm

But they couldn't torture me half as well

As those litte birthday %&^$@ at Chucky Cheese Hell

Chucky Cheese Hell

[stands2reason]

I had a friend who managed one of those CC's.

Mr. S2R is in the restaurant management biz and has been talking about applying at Chuck E. Cheese for awhile. "They're a great company to work for" he says. I think I'll save him this thread.

I don't want to have to set one foot in that joint or eat that crap pizza.

[BraveMan]

For me it's hard to blame these markers of social decline on a children-oriented restaurant, no matter how bad the damn pizza is.

The salient truth. However, attending a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese is an experience that tests one's mettle.

[Gritty]

Oh, that Chuck E. Cheese!

I thought the article would be about this Chucky Cheese!

[Katya]

It's a completely horrid, loud and aesthetically painful place. One of my children was invited to a party there some years ago....once.

[MotleyGirl70]

It's just an ongoing and ongoing joke. :) All in fun, right Lazamataz!

[Erasmus]

Chuck E. Cheese is OK. The trouble is caused by his little brother Dick.

And his little sister, Susie Cream.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I'd have to be drunk to go to CC too.....