Going Too FarEver had one of your mates go too far? Back when I was a teenager I went to stay with a friend in the country. We took his dog for a walk in some woods - which was fun.
We came across a breeding pen for the local pheasant shoot - which was interesting.
But then my friend broke into the cages, grabbed a pheasant, strangled it and proceeded to throw it around, only managing to rescue it from his dog's jaws seconds before a gamekeeper turned up to see what the hell was going on. Now, that was a bit too far...
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chthonic, Fri 10 Nov 2006, 14:11)
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Mac & MeIn hindsight, my manager's decision to sack me was going too far...
It was the kids summer holidays, I was working at a local cinema and having to police the destructive little shits during matinee showings.
Mac & Me was showing for matinee, it's a cheap E.T. clone employing one of the most questionable plots in kids film history: 'cute' alien family (Whistling Pobs - Cheers Jeccy) hoovered up by space probe and returned to earth where their youngest befriends a sad wheelchair bound kid called Eric and they go on their secret adventures trying to avoid the authorities....
It culminates with the alien family stealing the hand cannon from a 24/7 shop security guard and bimbling over a petrol station forecourt whilst the then attending police shoot at them.
Eric in distress wheels himself after them screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" - before he and his wheelchair are disintegrated by the fuel explosion.
It was possibly the funniest thing I've ever seen and I fucking lost it - I was howling with laughter, my sides aches and I staggered out of the theatre and missed the credits. The younger kids in the cinema were in bits, besides themselves with their mothers trying to console them - an upset apparently made worse by me openly laughing my guts out at Eric's demise
The complaints came in and my manager didn't see the funny side, especially as it brought the entire incident back into my mind and I started giggling insanely again about the "Vegetable getting blown up"
(, Tue 14 Nov 2006, 8:42, Reply)
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