Projo Offbeat Blog

This is a story that was bound to happen.
The Associated Press reports that a birthday party at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in Natick, Mass., was cut short this weekend when two mothers started fighting.
The mothers will be summoned to court to answer assault-and-battery charges. But anyone who has been to a kids' birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese or anyplace like it can understand how it happened. You've got the perfect recipe for parental rage: lots of noise, flashing lights, kids overdosed on sugar and excitement, the likelihood that everyone there -- kids and adults -- will soon share the same cold.
Maybe it's news when parents don't brawl at these kids' birthday parties.

Comments

Beth Heaney said:

The only thing worse than a Chuck E. Cheese party for disease spread might be a bowling party. Think about it – rented shoes, throwing a ball, visiting the bathroom, eating a hotdog, hacking at the cake – in that order.

Flashing lights, like at Chuck's, would send ME over the edge.

Link | March 3, 2008 4:53 PM
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