This was left in a cinema after Fifty Shades and we have questions

The latest instalment of the 50 Shades franchise hit the cinemas last week.

Critics don’t really like it.

Toronto Star’s Liz Braun called it:

Very, very boring. Very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, boring.

And yet, people are still shelling out the price of a cinema ticket to watch Ana Steele in various states of awkward disarray.

Which brings us to Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace, a cinema in Australia.

After a screening of 50 Shades Darker, one employee found something in the cinema:

Yes that is a cucumber.

You might have a few questions, like:

• Is this real or is it a PR stunt?
• Why did the employee hold the vegetable without covering their hands?
• Why would said employee post it online?
• Just why?

Responding to claims of the incident being a publicity stunt, the cinema said:

ha ha I can assure you that you're giving us WAY too much credit...please remember too, this did occur on our busy student night, so it's likely a prank between friends (as opposed to anything more unsavoury). Not that we're complaining though! People (well MOST people) are getting a kick out this story judging by the 1.8 thousand likes on the original post. At the end of the day it's all just a bit of fun...

So if it wasn't a publicity stunt, what...what was it?

The cinema says that they had held a student night, and it was probably a prank pulled by one of the attendees.

They hope.

HT News.com.au

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