6 of the craziest things I have seen working at a rage room
By: Damon Fogley
Tags: Bizarre, Rage Room, Divorce, Squatters, Funny Story

I am the owner of Unchartered Adventures. We have Smash rooms, splatter paint, bar/lounge and axe throwing activities. we are located in the Austin TX area. Book us online uncharteredadventures.com I wanted to share some of my experiences over the last 2 years and yes we are still open for business.

Stood up at the alter. A woman came in with her two close friends. Before they came in they asked if they could burn something in the parking lot after their session. I replied to them that our landlord would probably cancel our lease if he found we allowed anyone to burn anything on the property. I wondered what it was they wanted to burn? Turns out the woman was stood up at the alter by her husband the day of their wedding. She kept the dress because she knew at some point she would have to destroy it ceremonially. So instead of burning the item, after their smash session they got some black paint, doused the dress with the paint and then hung it up on the axe throwing board and threw axes at it (the wedding dress is being held up by one of the axes). Needless to say the bride to be had a smile on her face and felt a lot better about the whole ordeal after she left.

2. Family photos destroyed. Husband nowhere in site. A woman came in with her 2 young kids to do a smash session. People often ask if they can bring their own stuff in to break. We always tell them they are permitted to as long as the items are not dangerous. Turns out the woman brought a whole box of family photos with her, her kids and what appeared to be her husband in most of the photos. We never knew the story behind why the woman smashed the family pictures but the pictures had her two kids, her and her husband in the photos and the husband was not present for the smash session so you can only assume as to what happened. The kids didn’t seem as enthused to smash the photos as she was.

3. Man with cancer leaves the hospital to break stuff. A woman called us stating that her husband was being hospitalized and treated for cancer. She told us that he was asked not to leave the hospital but she needed to get his mind off of the treatments he was going through. She asked if a rage room would help get her husbands mind off of everything that was going on. I told her that it would be a great coping mechanism. The man proceeded to come in with IV still in his arm and mask on (pre-covid time frame). I asked him what his favorite item would be to break. He asked for a toilet. We happened to have one toilet upstairs that I was able to get for him to smash. we also happened to have a group party going on that day full of teenagers. The teenagers watched and cheered him on through the observation windows while he was smashing the toilet. The look on his face when he left was definitely a look of gratification. you can watch the short video here of his smash session herehttps://youtu.be/cz_4PXqY2gs

4. Squatters belongings destroyed by homeowner. An active duty army soldier came in with his wife to do a smash session. He also asked if he could bring a few boxes of his own items in to break. He didn’t just have one box of stuff he had a lot of stuff. Turns out while he was deployed overseas to Afghanistan someone was living in his house rent free as a squatter almost the entire time he was gone. After he was able to get access back into his house, the squatter had left some of their belongings. He took the squatters belongings to the smash room and put post it notes all over the items with the squatters name and various explicit adjectives on the post it notes.

5. Woman who got STD from her husband wants revenge. A woman who we had never met called us wanting to book a session for her and her friends. She specifically told us “My husband gave me an std (she actually said the name of the STD over the phone but wont reveal it here) and it was with a woman who was 20 years younger than him. I need something to help me cope with this.” I’m not sure if the woman ever came in but needless to say it was one of the weirdest straight forward calls that we ever received.

6. Woman proposes in VHS bathtub photo scene. Only a couple of weeks ago we had our first proposal at Unchartered Adventures. But instead of proposing in the smash room the woman wanted to propose to her fiance in the VHS scene that we had built. yes its a bathtub full of about 600 vhs tapes worth of ribbon. She got on one knee and the other woman said yes.