Fight at Disney Springs

[dISNEYlOveer]

There was a fight last night at Bongos in Disney Springs. People were reporting a shooting, Orange County Sherrifs Office responded with lots of deputies but it turned out to be just a drunken fight.

http://www.mynews13.com/content/new...cles/cfn/2015/12/25/ocso_disney_springs_.html

http://m.wesh.com/news/deputies-respond-to-incident-at-disney-springs/37134106

In the link from WESH, don't bother reading the comments below, people are saying all kinds of stories of what happened, false stories.

 

[hopeful4fl]

Social Media causes a lot more issues than people realize. This is not to excuse the idiots who started a fight at the happiest place (has been for us), but people who spread rumors through a mass outreach media are partly responsible for spreading fear. It is this fear that has caused most establishments, including Disney, to implement security measures that (in my opinion) go overboard.

 

[minnie-apple-mouse]

Not very xmas spirit like.

 

[IndyRnRfan]

They should arrest the idiot who said there were shots fired when there were not. How can you not know what gun shots sound like?

 

[rteetz]

They should arrest the idiot who said there were shots fired when there were not. How can you not know what gun shots sound like?

There were multiple idiots who reported shots on Twitter.

 

[Eoghann]

They should arrest the idiot who said there were shots fired when there were not. How can you not know what gun shots sound like?

It doesn't excuse hysterical over-reactions and posting unvalidated information as fact, but lots of people wouldn't recognize gunshots, myself included probably. It's fairly well documented phenomenon.

 

[kbelle8995]

I think that many people are tense after what happened in Paris and California.

Certainly you should not spread information that is questionable. But I understand that people are tense these days.

 

[rteetz]

It doesn't excuse hysterical over-reactions and posting unvalidated information as fact, but lots of people wouldn't recognize gunshots, myself included probably. It's fairly well documented phenomenon.

Some tires popping sound like gunshots, heck a firework could be mistaken for such as well.

 

[adam.adbe]

Some tires popping sound like gunshots, heck a firework could be mistaken for such as well.

Also, when you're scared, drunk, high, or even just decently sleep deprived; sounds can seem much louder, and to have a much greater sense of acoustic space than they actually do, so simple bangs may register in the mind as very loud, and appear to echo for a few seconds.

That said, it would help if people didn't rush to twitter or whatever to generate the fog of war effect at even the slightest happening.

 

[IndyRnRfan]

It doesn't excuse hysterical over-reactions and posting unvalidated information as fact, but lots of people wouldn't recognize gunshots, myself included probably. It's fairly well documented phenomenon.

I'm going out on a limb and say the noise they heard was a glass breaking. Nowhere near the same sound as a gun shot. I do understand that some people have never heard a gun fired, but if you aren't sure what you heard then don't say that's what you heard. A simple fight put DD on lock down and took how many cops off the street for a fight and disrupted how many peoples vacation.

 

[HopperFan]

I'm going out on a limb and say the noise they heard was a glass breaking. Nowhere near the same sound as a gun shot. I do understand that some people have never heard a gun fired, but if you aren't sure what you heard then don't say that's what you heard. A simple fight put DD on lock down and took how many cops off the street for a fight and disrupted how many peoples vacation.

Completely with you.

At this point we don't even know if there was any glass broken, no subsequent reports reported any glass or damage other than a guest swinging at staff and scuffle to arrest him. But even if it were, not sure how loud it would be from the second floor down to the first floor where the patrons who started the whole stampede were seated. Lots of people were put in danger because of a few irrational guests. What really bothers me is all these other people in subsequent interviews with the media who were not even at Bongos but were telling their "story" and how there was all kinds of gunshots happening - total fabrication. Guess they got their 15 minutes of fame. Bongos statement matches followup reports.

Bongo’s Cuban Café released the following statement:

"It was an unfortunate situation caused by an unruly customer seated on our second floor terrace. His behavior resulted in him being removed from the restaurant and arrested. Bongos management took every precaution to ensure the safety of all our guests during the disturbance..

Unfortunately, some of our guests seated on the first floor heard rumble and loud noises from the floor above them. Some ran out of our restaurant ,and incorrectly reported the sounds they heard as gun fire.

There was neither gun fire nor any level of a fight at Bongos. There was an unruly guest who had to be removed, and arrested. His behavior triggered the issues experienced at Disney Springs last night."