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Author Topic: Weirdest thing found in theatre? Nate Lehrke Master Film Handler Posts: 396 From: Denver, CO Registered: Oct 2002 posted 02-03-2003 03:51 AM                     What is the strangest thing you have found in your theatre/auditorium? Black Hawk Down – Pink vibrater with 5 foot attached remote control Unfaithful - $1200.00 in hundred’s in an envelope under seat, gotta reward for that one Shallow Hal - Four used condoms all basically on top of each other (busy couple) Once found about a hundred male kiddy porn pictures (most printed off PC & some Polaroid) in an auditorium trash receptacle, informed police & they were able to lift a print……… Nasty!  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-03-2003 04:43 AM                        quote: Shallow Hal - Four used condoms all basically on top of each other (busy couple) The film can't have been up to much if those customers felt the need of, err, alternative entertainment! A pair of false teeth and a stun gun are the best I can do.  |  IP: Logged Jon Bartow Master Film Handler Posts: 287 From: Massachusetts Registered: Nov 1999 posted 02-03-2003 09:26 AM                     Sleeping customers, ladies handbags, wallets, pizza boxes, Chinese take-out boxes, joints, beer bottles (a couple of unopened ones once) used condoms, etc. At one theater that I used to work at the manager came in one morning to find four feet of standing water at the front of one auditorium. A contractor had accidentaly cut through a roof drain during some repair work. It took 5 people with buckets and shop-vacs three hours to get most of the water out.  |  IP: Logged Barry Martin Expert Film Handler Posts: 203 From: Newington, CT USA Registered: Jul 2002 posted 02-03-2003 10:11 AM                        on the wall courtesy of a guest with a mental disability, and I heard that a film break during SW:Episode 1 (I think that was the film) everyone threw ANYTHING. Cheese from Nachos, food, popcorn, soda, mass-food fight I guess. Fortunately it was my day off.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 02-03-2003 10:47 AM                     I was doing a Press Screening of "Get Over It" for The Today Show. After the show, I found a pair of black fishnet panty hose. The person was in the lobby area. So I go over to ask if she has left anything in the auditorium. She says no, so we go back into the theatre. I show it to her, a big smile comes on her face. So I give them back to her. So everytime she comes to a screening, she jokes with me about it.  |  IP: Logged Brad Haven Master Film Handler Posts: 300 From: fremantle, West Australia Registered: Aug 2001 posted 02-03-2003 11:03 AM                     We have a lost property box overflowing with the usual sunglasses, hats and phones, but the most unusual items i have found was a lipstick shaped like an erect penis, strange thing was it was a small audience of elderly women and the other was a sock not overly unusual, but strange none the less! My favourite item to find is soggy tissues, especially around the change of season, when cleaning in a dark cinema in a hurry picking them up just makes my day!  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 02-03-2003 11:05 AM                        Bill --- Perhaps she was trying to tell you something. Seriously, my wife says pantyhose are very uncomfortable for some women, and they take them off as soon as they can, maybe even in the relative "privacy" of a darkened theatre.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-03-2003 11:13 AM                        Not that it's weird but back in 1960, I was managing a newsreel theatre in Times Square, I found a dead man in one of the front seats,of the auditorium. I Thought he was asleep so I kicked him a couple of times on the bottom of his shoe and then called the police who called the coroner and had him removed. Good thing, because if I left him there he would really be in bad shape by now,after all it is 43 years later and I would hate to breathe the air in that auditorium now... Note to Bill: I think it's time to invite me to one of your screenings. [ 02-03-2003, 12:28 PM: Message edited by: Bob Maar ]  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 02-03-2003 11:22 AM                     Bob That means I have to get the Martini glasses chilled. I'm here in Times Square. So it in the pocket Bill  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-03-2003 12:32 PM                        Bill, I will supply the ingredients. Martini's and black panties. Life is "Great"! Looking forward to it.  |  IP: Logged Dave Hall Film Handler Posts: 16 From: Watford, UK Registered: Jan 2003 posted 02-03-2003 02:27 PM                     hmmm good timing on this topic... I found a utilised feminine hygiene product in a back row yesterday. We've also found a DVcam tape with a very poor videoing of the film we'd just shown once...  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 02-03-2003 03:01 PM                        Dave Hall wrote: quote: We've also found a DVcam tape with a very poor videoing of the film we'd just shown once... http://www.mpaa.org/anti-piracy/contact/index.htm http://www.infocusmag.com/02December/builtby.htm  |  IP: Logged Dennis Benjamin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1445 From: Denton, MD Registered: Feb 2002 posted 02-03-2003 03:54 PM                        I have found just about everything mentioned previously so far (except a dead body). The strangest thing I have ever found: I ran a dollar house in Miami (Kendall) for a short time and I kept finding these little CO2 cannisters in the auditoriums. I thought maybe kids were having pellet gun fights in the auditoriums, but I never found any damage. I was informed later that these cannisters are 'huffed' and teenagers bascially use them as a drug.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 02-03-2003 04:13 PM                        I once found a customer who appeared to be asleep. But I couldn`t wake him up. He was also sweating heavily, so I called the emergency doctor. He had an insuline shock.  |  IP: Logged David Favel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 764 From: Ashburton, New Zealand Registered: Feb 2002 posted 02-03-2003 04:20 PM                     quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shallow Hal - Four used condoms all basically on top of each other (busy couple) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The movie can't have lasted much more than 2 hours. 4 times in 2 hours. Hell if I could have found him I would have shaken his hands. (Perhaps after he had washed them)  |  IP: Logged

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