Man the Bowtie is really speed running shutting down at this point.dougc84 t1_ja5ip70 wrote
My wife's been verbally assaulted in the bathroom by high school kids just hanging out in there to smoke.
My sister-in-law's car got burgered (like being egged, but... with half a burger?) while watching a movie for absolutely no reason.
We've witnessed fights between middle school kids outside of the theater.
About 7 or 8 years ago, I had a police officer friend that said they get more calls from Bowtie than anywhere else for fights and public disruption from middle school and high school kids. Parents don't take responsibility and just drop them off for something to do.
Dumb, irresponsible kids ruined it for the rest of them. They should've done this years ago.
ripleyajm t1_ja5s55r wrote
I feel like you can’t say “got burgered” unless it was multiple burgers. Half a burger is just half a burger being thrown at your car
genghisKHANNNNN t1_ja66wcr wrote
To be fair... Have parents ever taken responsibility for their kids at movie theaters? I was in middle school in the nineties, it was common to ditch the kids at the local Regal, and show back up after a couple of hours. By no means was that a new thing at the time.
dougc84 t1_ja6cbp1 wrote
The difference is in the 90’s, we went to watch the movie, not to fuck around for 6 hours.
genghisKHANNNNN t1_ja6cq9l wrote
Yeah. Like kids in the 90s never snuck into other movies, smoked in bathrooms, skateboarded the parking lots, got into fights, etc.
dougc84 t1_ja6dfzh wrote
But we, at least, tried to stay out of the center of attention. Maybe we got a BJ during a movie or snuck off to smoke the broken cigarette you’ve been cautiously holding in your pocket. We weren’t getting groups of people together to beat people up. We weren’t messing up people’s property. We weren’t throwing candy at other people or talking through entire movies.
I don’t care what anyone does with their time so long as it doesn’t negatively affect others. And, sadly, the actions of nearly every teenager that I’ve ever seen at Bowtie proves that they are not responsible enough to do that.
Gorz0th t1_ja7x4su wrote
The difference is, we didn't act like dicks about it. Acting like a dick would get your ass busted. Probably had families that gave a shit.
genghisKHANNNNN t1_ja84jff wrote
You didn't act like a dick.
I was (regrettably) a dick.
Beautiful-Kale7887 t1_ja82to5 wrote
Every generation thinks they weren't annoying kids
_fuhsaz_ t1_ja8clho wrote
Man I thought you’d mistyped “burgled” or something but then it was an actual burger. What a sad waste of a yummy sandwich :(
10000Didgeridoos t1_ja6m7z3 wrote
It must have really changed since COVID. Back when I used to go there often in the 2010s, the crowds were almost all college students and older since it's by the Diamond and not near the suburbs. It seemed like mostly people from the Fan, MD, and northside.
I hardly ever saw a lot of high school kids there.
dougc84 t1_ja6p6zu wrote
I haven't gone since around 2018 or 2019.
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