Sometimes you just can't predict the kind of headlines you'll be writing when you wake up in the morning.
Apparently, violence at the Chuck E. Cheese chain of restaurants is making quite a few news articles of late, which can only lead one to assume that food sponsored by a sentient mouse leads to civil unrest. This particular anecdote is a doozy, telling of one child who was accosted by a grown woman while he was trying to play a videogame.
Apparently, a 6-year-old was approached by a woman in her thirties while he was playing a game. As he attempted to insert more tokens into the machine and continue playing, the woman confiscated his tokens and told him to let other people play. The boy naturally informed his mother, who was then screamed at by the token-thief before a thirty-something male grabbed the 26-year-old mother by the throat and slammed her into the videogame machine.
There is absolutely no real message or reason for this post. It's just a very funny visual. Seriously though, it amazes me how childish grown adults can be sometimes. Chuck E. Cheese will shed a tear of shame tonight.
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3:22 PM on 12.09.2008
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love you Jimbo
I'm ex-military, and I've been to A LOT of shitholes. Chuck E Cheese was the absolute worst. No hyperbole here. I'll never set foot in there again.
Who said his turn was over? You can't assume that kind of detail- the article only says that he was playing a game, not how long he was playing for.
Welcome to humanity people
We all know that guy is going to be charged with assault as slamming the lady against a machine isn't going to get your pinball unstuck.
/TILT\
give my boy back his tokens bitch
"The boy naturally informed his mother, who was then screamed at by the token-thief before a thirty-something male grabbed the 26-year-old MOTHER by the throat and slammed her into the videogame machine. "
Just a generation ago, most people would never have even entertained the idea of doing such a thing. Sad.
Just a generation ago, most people would never have even entertained the idea of doing such a thing. Sad.
Damn I hate people sometimes.
This is seriously messed.
Wow Jim you should be fired for that kind of asinine comment about violence against women. It is sure as hell NOT funny.
Except for that time your mother back-talked me, so i had to show her five across the eye.
Please email support@destructoid.com and inform our HR director that you want me to be fired for this article. My management will take it from there.
I've been a card carrying member of the Cool Chuck's Club since '43.
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