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About three hundred to 400 teenagers accumulated in the center, maximum of them outdoors, in violation of coronavirus restrictions. The workers hiding in the basement, said a general manager.
By Bryan Pietsch
At one point, 300 to 400 teenagers had accumulated in the mini golf park, according to Lt. Karen Rudolph, spokeswoman for the Memphis Police Department. He noted that the crowd violated the city’s restrictions opposing coronaviruses.
The explanation of why so many teenagers arrived at the park not without delay and the teenagers who were provided may not be identified without delay. Bos said he heard he was coordinating on social media.
The stage deteriorated temporarily after Bos saw the teens “jumping on the tracks and getting on the car” at the go-kart attraction, he said.
Then the fight broke out, he said. He to close the park, which only made the stage worse. Frustrated teens demanded refunds, Bos said, despite offering that all purchased credits could be used at a later date.
About 50 teenagers “passed to the warden and invaded the concession domain,” Bos said, noting that he had not noticed any of them dressed in masks. The interior domain of the park is limited to 50 percent of its capacity, or about one hundred people; the most commonly open-air crowd before an organization moves inland, he said.
A women’s organization asked Mr. Bos for a refund using obscenity, she said. A woman threw a Plexiglas septum and a steel pole over the counter at the workers, an altercation filmed in a video that circulated widely on social media.
Mr. Bos called the police to help him handle the situation. In a statement released Monday, Lieutenant Rudolph said he started a stampede in the park because someone threw fireworks at a crowd. A 13-year-old woman pulled flowers from the jars during the stampede and threw them in the car, and won a juvenile subpoena for driving disorderly, she said.
The park has “promising clues to identify those involved” by launching plexiglass and other items in the concession area, and intends to file a complaint, Bos said.
The workers barricaded the property in a basement and a manager “armed himself with a golf club,” Bos said.
As for the guests, Bos said they “got out of Dodge pretty quickly.”
Bos said he would convene an assembly Tuesday to review the new policies. He wondered if one of his members, mostly teenagers, would stop smoking or be asked by his parents. “We’ll see who we have tomorrow, ” he said.
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