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Wednesday, March 02, 2005
Another Reason James Lileks Should Avoid Chuck E. Cheese
It’s getting to be a hostile environment.
James “the Bleat” Lileks is no big fan of Chuck E. Cheese. At least according to what he writes in his week-day blog. He seems to endure it for the sake of his beloved daughter, Gnat, who craves fats, carbs and a smattering of protein amid a thousand other scampering, hyper-active kids in a sensory-overload environment that would have OSHA down on it like ugly on an ape, if it were a steel mill. It would be too unsafe. But since it’s for kids, OSHA doesn’t shut down Chuck E. Cheese.
No, they’ll let the police do it for them. Here’s an incident in Aurora.
From the looks of it, the Aurora PD could take some lessons from Pueblo PD on Public Relations.
I found it particularly interesting that the Aurora police hauled the guy off, leaving his 3 and 7 year-old children unattended in the midst of the BAU pandemonium of Chuck E. Cheese during the dinner feeding frenzy. I would guess that as sauce for the poor sap’s goose, they’d throw in charges of child endangerment and child neglect.
Well, at least the Aurora PD officer could distinguish his taser from his service piece, as opposed to Marcy Noriega of the Madera PD in California. Poor Everado Torres, didn’t fare so well. Must have been a poor training problem on the part of the police academy Marcy graduated from.