There is a man who frequents our theatre about once a month. Every single time he pulls up and parks, he gets out and buffs his ENTIRE car with a rag. Ooooooooook...

I once saw a younger kid laying on the ground with his head underneath the front of the curtain. I was trying to figure out what in the hell he was doing. It was during the credits of "The Matrix". He had stuck his head next to the woofers to feel the air they were pushing. =)

Problem was that they couldn't get the thing through the door of the auditorium. The manager on duty stops them and asks them what the F*** they are doing. They said they wanted to go in and watch a movie "just like home". He sent them away but they dumped the ratty, old thing in the back parking lot. So... a couple hours later the thing found its way up to the booth. (I WONDER how that happened? )

I've had customers have heart attacks when I was managing. I really didn't think my management style was THAT bad. There's probably other stuff that I can't remember off the top of my head right now.

As for employees having sex in the theater... been there done that

The Rocky Horror crews have to be in a category by themselves.

A couple minutes later, I was in the lobby talking to my manager when we looked over and saw this man going through the garbage runnung the film through his hands. I found this a little odd, but it didn't bother me, nor did it bother my manager. He just wanted me to go over and make sure he was going to leave it in the trash can whenever he was done doing whatever it was he was doing and not make a mess with it.

So I go over and ask this man what he was doing.

"Do you know who Lucas is?" he asked.

"Yes." I responded.

"Do you know who Speilberg is?" he asked.

"Yes." I responded once again.

He then proceded to tell me that he had seen them both in separate interviews say that they liked the feel of film in their hands and he was trying to figure out "just what the fuck they get out of this."

He then asked me if I'd like to touch it, and I told him not really because I touch it all the time. Then he asked me if I'd like to touch anything else, to which I responded with "No, that's ok."

He asked me if either my manager or I had a problem with him messing with the film, and I said that there was no problem, but we just wanted to make sure he wasnt going to make a mess out of it. He jokingly said that he had planned on stringing it all over the theatre and asked if we would have a problem with that, and I told him that yes, we would. He said "Then I guess I'll leave it right here>" He threw the film back into the trash and went to his movie.
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There were other things that I didn't see,but was told about at another theatre I worked at.

The air conditioning in one of the theatres that was playing THE MUMMY was out and this employee went in and told the people that since the movie was shot in the desert, we wanted them to have the full effect of the film.

Near the end of the first run of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, some employees went in during the opening battle scene with brooms and water balloons and acted out in front of the audience what was happening on screen.

I heard of an employee acutally living behind on of the screens. This employee was AWOL from the Navy, had roomied with one of the other employees there, and got kicked out, and had been living behind the screen for about a month, unknown by the managers. This screen is also in the haunted auditorium. Funny thing is, is that once the managers went home for the night. The alarm was set, couldn't open any doors, or leave the auditorium because of motion sensors.

Same theatre, before I got there. A woman was DWI, drove THROUGH the box office, lobby, conession stand and into an auditorium. Fortunatly this was after hours and only person in the building was the janitor, and she was in annother part of the building. I saw the pictures and it was trashed. On the plus side of it. The chain was forced to remodel the box office and lobby.

Annother instance at the same theatre... Someone broke into the theatre at night, used a tensabarrier pole to smash the glass on the candy display. while they were reaching in to get the goods, a piece of the plate glass fell down cutting thier hand. No missing candy, but a trail of blood leaving the theatre.

On a real slow night, a different usher was standing at the door extremely still and quiet, lost is his thoughts. This old guy came in and thought he was a mannequin.