Have you ever had a shock?

[Syrreal]

Just got back. Didn't see any shocking things except one... my BIL's hair when we rode in the back seat of Exp Everest. He has really long curly hair and it was blown back at the time they take the pic... He looked like the Bride of Frankenstine!!! lol

 

[a*lil*bit*goofy]

AHEM...

"This one time, at band camp, i stuck...."

*grin* now that would have been shocking!

Shocking thing for me: when DH and I went 4 years ago, i 'tricked' him onto Splash Mountain *GRIN* we took the magic kingdom train....got off, walked onto splash...he didn't see it coming.

so the shocking part:
a) first little bump about 30 seconds into the ride "wait a second is this the splash mountain? this isn't a train! (insert eyeroll here)
b) the whole ride "is this the hill? is this the hill ? is this the hill?
c) leading up to the hill drop "OMG THIS IS it"
d) we get off the ride and laugh at our picture from the ride (dh's head was down almost on the floor. lmao)
e)....we get off the ride, walk around front, and dh poses this cocky 'joe cool' look at me i am a big tough guy riding maching pose.....and smiles for the camera. what a dork. he wants everyone to be impressed . LMAO

 

[Judge Fudge]

No, I am NOT kidding, and I did say "nuff said, so don't push the subject, please.......

Don't forget that pesky constitution, that's always getting in there way too! Well that is until they get out the old who cares hammer ...

Don't push the subject...Who are you to say people can't reply to you?

I won't see your reply's because you're on my ignore list already, for the sole reason that I don't want to derail this thread any further.

 

[fancythemouse]

Okay so no more of this politics nonsense.....he's troubled, he needs desserts! "but you didnt eat any of your sweet potatoe pie", DESSERTS!

Gotta love Lilo & Stitch :]

 

[LindsayDunn228]

This happended at (gasp ) Knotts Berry Farm here in california. DH was in line for a ride withe some friends and DS7, one of the friends was a police officer, and from behind them a group of teenage girls start to cut in front of them and my husband said " you've got to stand in line like the rest of us" and one of the girls says "but our boyfriends are in line ahead of you and they have our purses" so our cop friends says "which guys?" and they point to some random guys in line ahead of them and our cop friends says to the guys "hey, do you have these girls purses?" and the guys say that they don't even know the girls. so my husband says "tough luck" to the teenage girls and they start getting attitude with him and our friends, and our cop friends pulls out his badge and tells them to calm down or something might happen, and then one of the girls yells "hey! he's a po-po, everyone look, there's a po-po. He's cool with his little badge." and everyone in our group can't believe the disrespect. These girls were only around 12 or 13 ( dressed like hooches, too) So my husband realizes that he'd better get DS7 out of there before the bomb drops, so he starts to leave the line and the girls start calling him a sissy man "hey look at the bald sissy man leaving" so our cop friend says he's going to call security and the girls are like " we've got a knife in our purse, we're not scared of you Po-po". Security came and escorted them out of the line and they were cussin' at my Dh and our cop friend the whole time. sheesh!

Oh wow! That is awful!!

 

[doombuggy3]

Just got back. Didn't see any shocking things except one... my BIL's hair when we rode in the back seat of Exp Everest. He has really long curly hair and it was blown back at the time they take the pic... He looked like the Bride of Frankenstine!!! lol

HA HA HA, you made me laugh when I read this, that's hard to do at 7am!

 

[gssmks]

This happended at (gasp ) Knotts Berry Farm here in california. DH was in line for a ride withe some friends and DS7, one of the friends was a police officer, and from behind them a group of teenage girls start to cut in front of them and my husband said " you've got to stand in line like the rest of us" and one of the girls says "but our boyfriends are in line ahead of you and they have our purses" so our cop friends says "which guys?" and they point to some random guys in line ahead of them and our cop friends says to the guys "hey, do you have these girls purses?" and the guys say that they don't even know the girls. so my husband says "tough luck" to the teenage girls and they start getting attitude with him and our friends, and our cop friends pulls out his badge and tells them to calm down or something might happen, and then one of the girls yells "hey! he's a po-po, everyone look, there's a po-po. He's cool with his little badge." and everyone in our group can't believe the disrespect. These girls were only around 12 or 13 ( dressed like hooches, too) So my husband realizes that he'd better get DS7 out of there before the bomb drops, so he starts to leave the line and the girls start calling him a sissy man "hey look at the bald sissy man leaving" so our cop friend says he's going to call security and the girls are like " we've got a knife in our purse, we're not scared of you Po-po". Security came and escorted them out of the line and they were cussin' at my Dh and our cop friend the whole time. sheesh!

I just read your post, and I find the whole thing shocking. The girl's behavior once confront by your friend was shocking, but the fact that your "cop friend" would flash his badge to some juveniles that were trying to skip line is just as shocking to me. I am an attorney who has prosecuted for the state of Kentucky for five and half years and I am shocked at such an abuse of authority. As a policeman, and I am assuming that he is a Florida State Trooper, or his conduct was extremely out of line, is to investigate, prevent, and charge for criminal activity. Now I am not licensed to practice law in the state of Florida, and do not allege to be familiar with all of their statutes and regualations, but I feel safe in assuming that the only crime committed was possibly disorderly conduct once the situation out of hand. Line skipping, in and of itself, would not be disorderly conduct. The scene was caused by your friend who felt it necessary to try to intimidate some teenage kids by flashing is shiney badge. He over reacted in the situation and caused the entire problem. I would have gotten his badge number and filed a complaint against him once my vacation is over. What he should have done, if he really felt it necessary to take any action at all, is to quietly contact park security.

 

[terribm]

I just read your post, and I find the whole thing shocking. The girl's behavior once confront by your friend was shocking, but the fact that your "cop friend" would flash his badge to some juveniles that were trying to skip line is just as shocking to me. I am an attorney who has prosecuted for the state of Kentucky for five and half years and I am shocked at such an abuse of authority. As a policeman, and I am assuming that he is a Florida State Trooper, or his conduct was extremely out of line, is to investigate, prevent, and charge for criminal activity. Now I am not licensed to practice law in the state of Florida, and do not allege to be familiar with all of their statutes and regualations, but I feel safe in assuming that the only crime committed was possibly disorderly conduct once the situation out of hand. Line skipping, in and of itself, would not be disorderly conduct. The scene was caused by your friend who felt it necessary to try to intimidate some teenage kids by flashing is shiney badge. He over reacted in the situation and caused the entire problem. I would have gotten his badge number and filed a complaint against him once my vacation is over. What he should have done, if he really felt it necessary to take any action at all, is to quietly contact park security.

Question....did you read the post??? What does Florida have to do with anything. The first sentence clearly states that they were in CALIFORNIA. As a prosecutor, your lack of detail is appauling. I think he Police man standing in line was completely justified in showing his badge and trying to take charge of a unruley situation. I am sure he thought that showing this badge would calm the girls down and force them to obey the rules of the park. When it didn't, did he not call the proper authorities that then handled the problem? That's is my opinion but then again, I am just an average citizen, not a seasoned proffesional?? like yourself.

 

[gssmks]

Question....did you read the post??? What does Florida have to do with anything. The first sentence clearly states that they were in CALIFORNIA. As a prosecutor, your lack of detail is appauling. I think he Police man standing in line was completely justified in showing his badge and trying to take charge of a unruley situation. I am sure he thought that showing this badge would calm the girls down and force them to obey the rules of the park. When it didn't, did he not call the proper authorities that then handled the problem? That's is my opinion but then again, I am just an average citizen, not a seasoned proffesional?? like yourself.

You are entitled to your opinion and I'm entitled to mine. You are also entitled to throw around all the insults you wish. I stand by my post. You can just insert California for Florida if you wish, but it doesn't matter where the incident occurred. The officer was out of line. I'm not defending the girls behavior either. They probably needed to be disciplined by their parents. Still it is not the officer's place to try to make the girls obey the rules of the park. To use his badge to try to intimidate the girls was not proper conduct. Also, she said that he told them if they did not stop something might happen. What do you think he was trying to do with that comment. He was trying to use his authority to intimidate those girls. That's why people no longer show the proper respect for authority, because too many people in those positions abuse it.

 

[Darian]

You are entitled to your opinion and I'm entitled to mine. You are also entitled to throw around all the insults you wish. I stand by my post. You can just insert California for Florida if you wish, but it doesn't matter where the incident occurred. The officer was out of line. I'm not defending the girls behavior either. They probably needed to be disciplined by their parents. Still it is not the officer's place to try to make the girls obey the rules of the park. To use his badge to try to intimidate the girls was not proper conduct. Also, she said that he told them if they did not stop something might happen. What do you think he was trying to do with that comment. He was trying to use his authority to intimidate those girls. That's why people no longer show the proper respect for authority, because too many people in those positions abuse it.

Hey gssmks, I've read the posts and I honestly don't see Terribm "insulting" you. This person obviously disagrees with you, but thats ok. Its clear from the OP's description of the line cutting girls behavior that they had seriously bad attitudes and were insulting and provocative and that they were intent upon escalating the situation to violence. I believe thats when the police officer flashed his badge. How that could be considered "abuse of authority" is beyond me. Now had the officer taken out his night stick and proceeded to beat the tar out of those foul mouthed disrespectful teenage scumbags, that unfortunately could be considered "abuse." But it certainly would have been satisfying to watch.

Please forgive my ignorance of the law, but I sincerely would like you to explain to me why you think the police officer was "abusing his authority." I just don't understand that and I would really like to understand your point of view. I'm not trying to be argumentative, I just would like to understand.

 

[gssmks]

Hey gssmks, I've read the posts and I honestly don't see Terribm "insulting" you. This person obviously disagrees with you, but thats ok. Its clear from the OP's description of the line cutting girls behavior that they had seriously bad attitudes and were insulting and provocative and that they were intent upon escalating the situation to violence. I believe thats when the police officer flashed his badge. How that could be considered "abuse of authority" is beyond me. Now had the officer taken out his night stick and proceeded to beat the tar out of those foul mouthed disrespectful teenage scumbags, that unfortunately could be considered "abuse." But it certainly would have been satisfying to watch.

Please forgive my ignorance of the law, but I sincerely would like you to explain to me why you think the police officer was "abusing his authority." I just don't understand that and I would really like to understand your point of view. I'm not trying to be argumentative, I just would like to understand.

Well, in my opinion, and now that I have discussed it with the Captain of our local Kentucky State Police Post, in his opinion also, the office was out of line by flashing his badge in this situation. Being an officer and having a badge gives him the authority to enforce the laws of the state, county or city in which he is an office. I have not gone back and read the post, but it would depend on where his jurisdiction was as to whether or not he would even have the power to act if a law was even being violated. Regardless, these girls, while exercising poor judgement and acting disgracefully, were not violating any laws. I don't recall the OP mentioning anything about the girls becoming "violent". If you are referring to them having a knife. That was said after the "cop friend" flashed his badge and I guarantee you there was no knife. The girls were making fun of him for flashing his badge. If they actually pulled a knife on him, then he would be perfectly justified in flashing his badge, but until then no crime was being committed. I recall it stating that the girls began mouthing off to he DH and the "cop friend", and that is why he flashed the badge. He flashed his badge in a situation where he had no authority to engage in the duties of a police office and he did it with the intent to intimidation others to act the way he wanted them to act. That is improper conduct and "abuse of his authority". It is even more appauling knowing that we are not talking about adults, or even large teenage boys. These were two girls, in I believe it was their earily teens. Our Captain said that he had better never hear of his officers conducting themselves this way. Everyone at Post was laughing at this guy today.

 

[Erlene]

ANYBODY KNOW A GOOD ATTORNEY JOKE? hA HA

 

[gssmks]

ANYBODY KNOW A GOOD ATTORNEY JOKE? hA HA

Make what ever jokes you want. The fact remains that to see an office flash his badge in a situation like that is far more shocking than to see to young girls trying to skip line for a ride at a theme park, or even to see them go off on adults who try to stop them. I'm willing to bet the park doesn't even want off duty, out of uniform, officers to confront park guests in this manner, and it's their rules that he was attempting to enforce.

 

[a*lil*bit*goofy]

Please forgive my ignorance of the law, but I sincerely would like you to explain to me why you think the police officer was "abusing his authority." I just don't understand that and I would really like to understand your point of view. I'm not trying to be argumentative, I just would like to understand.

can y'all do it on email or PM? This has gone WAY off topic. and the mods have threatened to close this thread before!

Thanks. :O)

 

[Tony Toon]

This situation encapsulates what seems to be one of the reasons we have complete disregard for any kind of authority these days. Kids - and they are getting younger - know that no one can touch them, despite the most intimidating and antisocial behaviour, and that if anyone tries to discipline them, or even threaten to, then some even greater authority will come down on that person like a ton of bricks. I can guarantee that those girls, if they read this (very unlikely I know) will be laughing their heads off at the previous posts.

 

[jann1033]

sooooo was the little kid who peeed ( how many eees are in peeed anyway) on the guy's leg related to him or not??? i am still wondering...

the most shocking thing i saw was 2 "mature" women. arms folded and crabby stares, sitting on a wall at mk waiting for the parade that was 2 hrs away and glaring at any who dared walk between them and the street...maybe they owned that little piece of disney?? ( not all that shocking but a blatent and desperate attempt to get back on track )

 

[philaround]

OK, we now return to our reguarly scheduled shocks.

This shock has absolutely no connection to Disney Parks, Resorts, Restaurants, Pools, Mugs, clothing [or lack thereof]. It did however happen on our trip to WDW 4/29 thru 5/8. I reserved a room at a Days Inn near Bradley International for Friday night 4/28 using their stay, park, and fly rate. We were out front of the Days Inn at about 8AM on 4/29 waiting for the free shuttle to the airport. The shuttle arrived within a few minutes and parked at the front door to load passengers. The very pleasant and helpful young man who was driving the van checked flight time and airline for every one who was waiting and then loaded us and our luggage. We were his second stop at the airport. He parked as close to curb check in as he could get and we unloaded. He lined our luggage up very neatly at the curb and I thanked him and gave him a $10.00 tip.
Well we return on 5/8, pick up our luggage, and go to the curb to wait for the shuttle back to our parked car. The van arrives in a few minutes and it is the same young man who was so pleasent and helpful just 10 days ago. Well he parks the van, opens the door, comes down to the first stair into the van and looks very pointedly at our luggage, my DD trying to manage her hyper 4yo son. and my DW trying to keep my wheelchair from rolling off the curb [airport chair with very loose breaks] and doesn't make a move to load anything. My DD manages to get the lock to hold on the wheelchair and turns her son over to my DW and starts to pass the luggage to the driver who has never stepped off the van. On the way to the hotel parking lot he asks us where in the lot our car is, we tell him, and he drives us to within 6 feet of our trunk. I think to myself "Well I quess something must have just happened to upset him as he parked to pick us up at the airport." I was willing to let it all go until we turned around to find him standing in the van next to the luggage rack and says "Well isn't anybody going to help me get this luggage off of this van, I have more people to drop off and pickup." Well let me tell you he did not get 1 red cent from me for a tip and if I could have I would have asked for the $10.00 back that I gave him on 4/29.

 

[Talking Hands]

Don't let it get you down. I always laugh when I read about the "invisible disabilities" that some people have to deal with. Don't get me wrong. I totally agree that there are issues that people have to deal with that no one can look at them and see. I guess my problem is that these people are not concerned about the "invisible disabilities" of the other guests in line that they may be stepping in front of.

My 8 yo has major kidney/bladder issues and has to "go" without much warning. So, if another guest gets in the back of the line and then the bus pulls up and their family of 20 gets on first (this happened to me in June) and then causes my family to have to wait for another bus, this could be a problem. My dd may not be able to wait that long to "go". I am not saying that there don't need to be some concesions given to the handicapped. I just don't see any reason that they don't have to wait at all in line for the buses. If they are healthy enough to be in FL when it is 95 degrees outside, maybe they could wait for a bus.

Wheelchair guests are told to wait in the front for the bus and are loaded first because you cannot easily load and tiedown the wheelchair when the aisles are filled with people. This is especially true with those of us using power wheelchairs or ECVs. They need some room to manuever. Having 20 people board with you is excessive. My feeling is that one adult and any children to young to travel by themselves or handicapped children enter with the wheelchair user. The others can meet up at the hotel if they have to wait for a second bus. There have been times when it has been crowded where I have been asked to wait for the next bus. There have also been times when buses have already been full or the driver doesn't want to move guests from seats to accomodate the wheelchair. One cold night at Pleasure Island I had to wait through 4 buses and close to 2 hours to get back to my resort because of broken and full buses. I was freezing and in tears. A bus would come and all the people would shove in and I would be left. The drivers did not call a special bus or do anything to make it easier. Finally a relief driver came by and I told him what was going on and he got me on the next bus (the one he was relieving) and got me to my resort.
Another time I was trapped on the All Star bus because guests would not move to allow me off and the driver had to drop all the walking passengers and then go back to my resort and drop me. It isn't all that great to be in a wheelchair and use the buses at times. We have to wait as well even for buses.

 

[Flora Fan]

I've noticed a couple of replies from people stating that they will need to use wheelchairs or ECV's on their next trip to WDW. I just wanted to make mention that there are some great companies that will rent by the day or week. Some of these companies will drop off and pick up the chair/ECV at the resorts. This is terrific if you need the assistance during your entire stay and not just in the parks. My DDad used one last trip and it was wonderful.

By the by...we didn't hear word one about his using an ECV from anyone. Everyone was completely respectful and helpful. Please, don't be afraid to use the help that you need because of a few people who are uneducated about handicaps. Be safe and enjoy the magic. (Oh my gosh...did I sound like I was on a soap box? )

 

[SueM in MN]

I've noticed a couple of replies from people stating that they will need to use wheelchairs or ECV's on their next trip to WDW. I just wanted to make mention that there are some great companies that will rent by the day or week.

If you follow the link in my signature to the disABILITIES Board, check out the disABILITIES FAQs thread near the top of the board. One of the posts on that thread has information/links to the companies that DIS posters most frequently report good experiences using.