I was ASSAULTED at CHUCK E CHEESE

[fisharmor]

im all for gun rights but i cant imagine how that would have made the situation any better...imagine if that crazy puerto rican had a gun...i was with my kids...

What the person in NH and I are telling you is that if MA had in-tact gun rights, the situation would not have happened at all.

 

[Cinderella]

Possible talking points (just to help you focus on what you want to tell)

1. misbehaving child breaks your glasses
2 can't find parents - ask manager for assistance
3 manager finds parents offers to look at video
4 you are OK at this point, if the parents pay for your glasses that ends it
5 parents are argumentative and turn violent
6 call police
7 police and manager are unhelpful
8 you seek treatment for injuries
9 no video, no police report, no lawyer
10 violent parent threatens to sue
11 turns out this is not an isolated incident at CEC

Work on getting this into 15 seconds - that will be the interview and then respond to follow up questions.

If you interview well, you will help in getting coverage, and lawyers will find you.

this is excellent! thank you...i have yet to find a lawyer and time is ticking away...i fear the videos will be erased....ive contacted the corporate CEC in Tx and got no help from them...right now im trusting and hoping that the police will supoena that video asap before its too late. i agree and hope that a lawyer will find me

 

[Elwar]

right now im trusting and hoping that the police will supoena that video asap before its too late.

More than likely, they just say that they have surveillance but the cameras probably don't even work anymore.

 

[Cinderella]

More than likely, they just say that they have surveillance but the cameras probably don't even work anymore.

no because the officer looked at the tapes after we left...they are working video cams

 

[ctiger2]

Nuts! Your fiance should have waited for her to throw the first punch and then just socked her in the gut hard enough to lift her off her feet. That would have done it.

 

[angelatc]

What reason are the lawyers giving you for not wanting the case?

 

[DapperDan]

Nuts! Your fiance should have waited for her to throw the first punch and then just socked her in the gut hard enough to lift her off her feet. That would have done it.

I would've headbutted her....

However they did the right thing by not trying to escalate the issue by fighting back imo. You never know what could happen.

I'm sorry for everything you've gone through. I hope it turns out well and that woman gets owned.

 

[Cinderella]

What reason are the lawyers giving you for not wanting the case?

theyre saying chuck e cheese may not be held responsible becuase CEC isnt a police force...that if they destroy the tapes it will not lok good on their part...but my main thing is that they allowed this dangerous family to not only stay but bring more people in! my fiance told me they brought back like 10 more guys...CEC is responsible for negligence is lack of security and putting their customers in jeaopardy

 

[Aratus]

isn't the situation a legal tort in that its assault and battery?
as the proprieter, chuck e cheese has to have a moral tone...

 

[Deborah K]

theyre saying chuck e cheese may not be held responsible becuase CEC isnt a police force...that if they destroy the tapes it will not lok good on their part...but my main thing is that they allowed this dangerous family to not only stay but bring more people in! my fiance told me they brought back like 10 more guys...CEC is responsible for negligence is lack of security and putting their customers in jeaopardy

Cinderella, if you are telling lawyers your story in the same way you told it here, they might be looking at this very PC and focusing only on the race issue (without admitting it). Give them the CEC angle and provide them with other examples of violence at CEC. You had mentioned that you found several others. Leave out the race and language barrier stuff.

 

[Pericles]

theyre saying chuck e cheese may not be held responsible becuase CEC isnt a police force...that if they destroy the tapes it will not lok good on their part...but my main thing is that they allowed this dangerous family to not only stay but bring more people in! my fiance told me they brought back like 10 more guys...CEC is responsible for negligence is lack of security and putting their customers in jeaopardy

Makes sense from a strict liability standpoint, but not providing evidence of a criminal act (assault) when it is known that the company has such evidence might be a problem for them.

After the press, next step is the DA office about filing charges against the parents. Then it goes one of 3 ways:

1. DA starts to get action
2. DA does not care
3. Fact that DA does not care becomes last talking point in the interview

If there is no action on the part of the DA, media attention becomes essential.

 

[Live_Free_Or_Die]

nt

 

[amy31416]

You sure this actually happened? If you're the same poster I'm thinking of, really outrageous things happen to you with such a frequency as to be unbelievable.

 

[Deborah K]

Now that seven pages have been wasted on bitching about how everyone else is to blame what steps have you personally taken to properly defend yourself in the future?

Will all of this enthusiasm you already could have signed up for personal defense courses, obtain disabling weapons, or pursue firearms.

This thread should be titled "Ron Paul supporter who should know better chooses not to defend themselves and gets attacked"

Try reading the entire thread b4 you go on the attack asshole!!

 

[Mini-Me]

Nuts! Your fiance should have waited for her to throw the first punch and then just socked her in the gut hard enough to lift her off her feet. That would have done it.

Cinderella is a woman, her fiance is a man, and they were being attacked by a woman...only Cinderella herself could have fought back and gotten away with it. Her fiance could do nothing more than absorb blows like a punching bag unless he wanted to go to prison for assault and battery against a woman or something like that. It's a double standard, but you generally can't count on a sympathetic jury if you're a man fighting back against a woman, at least not unless she's attacking you with a deadly weapon.

 

[Pericles]

Now that seven pages have been wasted on bitching about how everyone else is to blame what steps have you personally taken to properly defend yourself in the future?

Will all of this enthusiasm you already could have signed up for personal defense courses, obtain disabling weapons, or pursue firearms.

This thread should be titled "Ron Paul supporter who should know better chooses not to defend themselves, gets attacked, then complains"

Do you think the same PD that won't take a crime report will approve a gun permit?

What purpose does "blame the victim" serve? Do you suppose the OP is unaware of the law in MA? How does your post assist the OP's current problem?

The crime has happened - what should have been done is no longer relevant.

 

[BuddyRey]

This is awful. I hope you feel better soon, and get to see justice served on these creeps!

To echo what FSP-Rebel said, since you're already in the New England area, you should really consider relocating from Taxachussetts to New Hampshire. I'm considering the same thing, and I live 900 miles away!

 

[pcosmar]

You sure this actually happened? If you're the same poster I'm thinking of, really outrageous things happen to you with such a frequency as to be unbelievable.

Have you ever been to a Chuck E Cheese?

http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=12022359
http://perezhilton.com/2010-02-22-is-chuck-e-cheese-a-magnet-for-trouble
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122878081364889613.html

Horrible food, Madhouse atmosphere, unruly and undisciplined children.
I avoid places like that.

Biker Bars are safer.

 

[MelissaWV]

Now that seven pages have been wasted on bitching about how everyone else is to blame what steps have you personally taken to properly defend yourself in the future?

Will all of this enthusiasm you already could have signed up for personal defense courses, obtain disabling weapons, or pursue firearms.

This thread should be titled "Ron Paul supporter who should know better chooses not to defend themselves, gets attacked, then complains"

You should read the order in which you've talked about the events yourself. You placed "chooses not to defend themselves" before "gets attacked" and that is precisely the order in which it happened. How could she have defended herself first? Was she to beat up a child for breaking her glasses? She instead went to the parent, which is what should have been done. Information should have been obtained to actually allow for action, which seems to be how things started off.

From there, things went bonkers, and I'm not really sure what happened to whom and in what order. The whole thing sounds odd.

I noticed two things pretty quickly in this thread:

1. People brought up illegal immigration. I'm not sure what that has to do with the incident. Cinderella is the only one in the entire ordeal who was from a foreign nation.

2. The phrase "...that Puerto Rican..." was used an odd number of times. I have no idea what the woman's origin had to do with her being rude and unreasonable.

* * *

Whether or not the child threw the ball on purpose to start the whole thing was never addressed. If they did, what was going on before that? Why would someone just randomly pick you and sock you in the face with a ball? It can happen, but it seems more likely that something was going on to make the OP a target. That's not "she deserved it," but what was the situation? We don't know. How that first interaction happened, and how it was "brought to the attention" of the mother could have had an impact on how the rest of things played out.

The employees have no real obligation to stop a fight, but they do have an obligation to cooperate with authorities in order to foster a safe environment for patrons. The police obviously had no problem taking the other person's information and she had no problem filing charges. Document everything (even keep your receipts showing you were there that day), file your own charges, and at very least sue for the glasses to start things off.

 

[RyanRSheets]

perhaps a button?

No, just paint Ron on your left cheek and Paul on your right cheek.

Or, write it on your palm and block out the camera at the end of the interview.