a woman tried to steal my daughters fan today

[kdonnel]

We were at the Magic Kingdom and had given in to our daughter and bought one of those $17 spraying fans.

While my wife and daughter were riding dumbo I was standing about 10 feet from the stroller. About that time a woman and her 10 or so year old daughter walked past. The woman stopped, looked at the stroller and grabbed the fan.

I chased after and asked why she took my daughters fan. She said she thought it was abandoned. I told her I am "sure" that is what she thought and asked for the fan back before we had to involve security.

She handed the fan back and kept on walking, no apology, no apparent remorse.

What a wonderful example she set for her daughter.

 

[JulesMom]

 

[caitycaity]

YIKES! i'm glad you still have the fan!

 

[browneyes]

What does she do, scope out strollers she thinks no one is watching? I'm glad you got the fan back.

 

[DebbieB]

We were at Epcot today and a woman was taking a group picture of the big display at the entrance to the WS. She laid her purse and camera bag on the ground a good 10 feet from where she was taking the picture (or in the picture). Anyone walking by could have grabbed it and kept on walking.

 

[epcotfan]

I can't believe some people!!! What nerve! Too bad security hadn't been in the vicinity while this occured. I too encountered some real winners last week as well.

 

[disneymom3]

A few years ago, we were at WDW on a day when it was really raining and we had an extra poncho for our stroller. We were riding the carousel and as we went past our parked and dry, I might add, stroller, I noticed there was a couple and their toddler standing right by our stroller and I just got a suspicious feeling about them. Sure enough, next time by they were taking off the poncho! Luckily, it was the last turn around on the ride and I hopped off and sped over there. They were just walking away and I said, "Excuse me, I think that is our poncho." "Oh, we just found it blowing around!" they claimed. Huh! At least they weren't bright enough to take off with it!

 

[kdibattista]

What is wrong with people

 

[MaryKatesMom]

Years ago, there wasn't any labels on strollers. What a disaster! It went beyond "Gee, I thought this was my stroller."

Imagine getting off an attraction and almost every time having to walk back to the front of the park for a new stroller.

It was a free-for-all!

The world is full of selfish people.

 

[CuteKatCar]

It makes me mad because WHAT IS SHE TEACHING HER CHILD!!!!!!!

It's a lesson that you can never leave anything valuable in your stroller. Does anyone remember (was it in the Unofficial Guide) about the woman who soaked a diaper with cola, put it in a see-thru bag and hung it off her stroller. She figured no one would mess with a stroller and a "poopy" diaper .

My DD did leave her mister fan on a counter at Caseys. It was about a 1/2 hour before we figured it out. Of course it was long gone. I know I would have turned it in. Too honest.

Hopefully, the world is full of more people like us and not more of them.


Makes me worry about those Pal Mickey's we're getting. I hope we don't lose them.

Anna

 

[beattyfamily]

That's TERRIBLE!!!!!!

Luckily there are, IMHO, more nice, honest people at WDW than bad....

We left our camcorder in Toontown next to the bench across from Mickey's house. We took the train back to the entrance and walked back to the Contemporary. My DH didn't realize he left it until we reached the resort. By the time he got back it was gone. He asked the train conductor. He suggested Lost and Found. My DH went to Lost and Found and there it was!!!!!

So although there are terrible, selfish people running around WDW there are also many wonderful people too!

 

[Miscrapper]

I left our camcorder on Peter Pan's ride and realized it after we got off next ride - it was EE morning so it wasn't crowded. Boy was I glad when Cast Member had it! It was brand new $1000 digital Sony I bought right before our trip!

 

[kitnrose]

My mother actually did the 'dirty diper' attachment when my now-driving brother was stroller bound. We never had to worry about it getting 'borrowed,' even without our name on it! I'm trying to remember what we did when I was that young at DL... I have memories of seas of identical blue strollers at the end of rides. What a pain to find yours... or did you just grab any? I guess the lesson with this thread is that even disney magic can't block human nature, so, if possible secure valuables (and semi-valuables) to the stroller or wheelchair. Or just attach a dirty diper. They really do work!

 

[seashoreCM]

What would be an appropriate education for the woman who stole the fan or the couple who stole the poncho?

1. A good shouting at in full view of their child?

2. Expulsion from the park on the spot and confiscating of their park passes even if they were premium annual passes?

Seeing that it was the adults who were committing the crime, maybe several instances of #2 would do a lot of educating and reduce these problems drastically even with large cutbacks in security cast members.

Policemen are generally not good teachers but you and I ourselves are probably much worse.

Disney hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/disney.htm

I have heard about these surveys about some cities having nicer people and other cities having ruder people. I think those surveys are meaningless. You can still get a rude experince in a "nice" city.

 

[nativetxn]

YIKES! That's disappointing, isn't it?

Is that little doll baby in your avatar your daughter? So precious! How could someone steal from a baby, well anyone really, but a pretty baby like that?

Sadly, we all need to be aware of activity like this even when we tour a Disney park. Very sad but human nature being what it is, I don't suppose we should be too surprised

 

[Chuck S]

My grandmothers wheelchair was "borrowed" several years ago at DL. It wasn't a rental, and looked nothing LIKE the rental chairs, plus had her name on it. We were on the train, which wasn't w/c compatible at that time. When we found it, the woman that was in it "Thought all those wheelchairs lined up at the train station were free."

 

[kdonnel]

Originally posted by nativetxn
Is that little doll baby in your avatar your daughter?

That is my new son. He is on his first visit to WDW. Doesn't seem to know he is somewhere other then home but is having a good time non the less.

 

[nativetxn]

Ooops, sorry. That will teach me He's gorgeous and just precious.

 

[sm4987]

That is horrible. You know, you were very nice about it. My husband would have made them so embarrassed that they probably would have run from the park in tears.

 

[Texian@WDW]

If we lived in her "world" every stroller at WDW would be abandoned. "Just take it - nobody wants it." Man-o-Man!!!!