Do not leave age restricted items in public places

[lawboy2001]

In a Facebook group I just noticed someone left behind a bottle of alcohol in a ice room along with other leftover snacks. I know people want to be nice and leave things for others to use instead of packing/throwing but things that are age restricted like alcohol should not be left.

Not only is it dangerous for someone underage who gets their hands on it but its also likely a big liability for you if something happens and Disney pulls up the video footage to see who left the item to start with.

oh what a hilarious scenario! a parent having a fit at the front desk about their teenager getting drunk on alcohol and demanding that Disney spend hours looking over video footage to see if they can spot the culprit who left the alcohol unattended! and then if they find video footage trying to link the person to an actual name! what would they do, put up screen shots around the resort? other ways to id? i'm not sure it would work anyway, these items are generally left by people the day they are checking out!

 

[DonMacGregor]

I am in the group with the posters above about not eating/using someone's leftovers. Even unopened. Weirds me out. I'm much too cynical and pessimistic to accept that they are ok and not tampered with. Not very likely but not worth the risk. Anything we have leftover is usually partially opened so we just throw out. I don't think I've ever had brand new items left from my stay.

I made a comment along those lines in one of the Facebook groups, and never heard the end of it (had to turn off notifications). Unopened sodas/waters/beers, sure. Milk, cereal, and anything else opened? No thanks.

 

[EYL]

I agree with the OP. When people complain on that Facebook group about alcohol in the open, the others jump down on them. I'm tempted to post a picture of some snacks with a pack of open cigarettes and a lighter on top of it and say "free for the taking in XYZ vending room" and see if that pushes the boundaries...

 

[sethschroeder]

oh what a hilarious scenario! a parent having a fit at the front desk about their teenager getting drunk on alcohol and demanding that Disney spend hours looking over video footage to see if they can spot the culprit who left the alcohol unattended! and then if they find video footage trying to link the person to an actual name! what would they do, put up screen shots around the resort? other ways to id? i'm not sure it would work anyway, these items are generally left by people the day they are checking out!

Disney could fairly easily track you back to your room. There is no hours of combing through footage. As long as the video footage is archived and labeled you likely could come up with the room they came from in 30 mins. Easily referenced from the reservation system then who was in the room.

Also I am not talking about a teenager just having a little to drink. They get drunk and walk in front of a monorail. You don't think Disney will dig a little deeper to pass blame? They get drunk and drive their rental car causing a 20 car pileup and other deaths?

Far fetched? Possibly but here is the thing its dang easy to avoid any liability but dumping the $5 worth of alcohol down the drain if you are not packing it or drinking or leaving it for mousekeeping or contacting someone who just arrived that is of age.

 

[bumbershoot]

They get drunk and walk in front of a monorail.

How does one walk in front of a monorail?

They get drunk and drive their rental car causing a 20 car pileup and other deaths?

One cannot rent a car as a teenager in most cases, and those cases aren't in Florida, from what I know.

 

[bluezy]

How does one walk in front of a monorail?



One cannot rent a car as a teenager in most cases, and those cases aren't in Florida, from what I know.

I had the same thoughts. How does someone walk in front of a monorail??? And most of the unsupervised teenagers I see at Disney are foreign tour groups, school music groups, etc. who would be using buses for transportation and wouldn't have any access to cars. Many of the foreign tour groups (have they even returned since Covid????) originate in countries that don't enforce their legal drinking age (which is often 18 or lower) so kids are used to being able to walk into a store in their home country and buy whatever alcohol they want. So they're probably less likely to be looking for alcohol in the hallways/laundry rooms of their Disney hotels. It's far easier to drink at home so there's no "thrill" to doing it on vacation since it's not something that's "forbidden" in their everyday life. I think teenagers who are at Disney with their family are very unlikely to pick up the alcohol in the hallway, sneak it back to their room, and get drunk without their parents noticing.

 

[Sandisw]

I think we have all had time to share thoughts and before this turns into an argument, we will end it here.