This is slightly off-topic but one of the most fucking infuriating things that ever happened to me.
I was a projectionist at a movie theater when the Beavis and Buthead movie came out.
This was in our biggest theater, 483 seats. The screen in sq feet was bigger than any apartment I have ever lived in. So these bags of shit, after the movie is over decide to spray-paint the screen. They got creative and wrote “fuck” in blue spray-paint on the lower right hand corner of the screen. It was about three feet wide and 1 feet tall. And I am still livid.
Here is the thing.. I was paid very little and stole, damaged more than these little vandals could have dreamed of. My horror far exceeded my wages.
So I tried cleaning the screen with, what was basically called “vandalism remover”. It melts spray-paint on bathroom stalls. On a screen in a theater it makes the problem a million times worse.
So now the entire screen needs to be replaced. You can’t just swap out a section and stitch it together. It has acoustic properties and needs to reflect a lot of light properly.
So new screen, 50K, and even worse I was tasked with helping replace it at 4am on a Saturday morning. They are attached with thousands of springs. A cherry-picker was required, and I hate heights. It was one of the worst days of my life.