Have you ever had a shock?

[crow11ad]

In April we were going to PI and some under age girl was trying to sneak in with a fake ID. Now that is pretty sad when you have sneak into Disney.

 

[DisKim]

While on the topic of teens, I was there with my female cousins who are 14 and 16 and happen to be gorgeous. I could not believe the number of grown men who harassed them. We went to DTD one day and cut through PI to get to the other side to do more shopping (their parents were there as well). Two men who looked to be in their forties were staring down my 14-year-old cousin's shirt! It made me sick. It took everything out of us to walk away and not cause a scene. That's the last time we cut through there!

 

[ekmdisney]

Originally posted by crow11ad
In April we were going to PI and some under age girl was trying to sneak in with a fake ID. Now that is pretty sad when you have sneak into Disney.

I've seen this as well. It was pretty funny. The guy must have been the young one in the group. Because part of the party was already inside PI, and he was holding up the rest of the group on the other side of the gates. Every time the securty guy would tell him that he knew that his ID was fake, and would point out all that was wrong with it, the rest of his group was "You're wrong, man, he's 21! His ID is not fake!"

They had about 6 securty guys their, and the line behind them just grew and grew. Never saw how it ended we just walked on by.

 

[Clotho]

Originally posted by iansmomm
i have a shock that was actually (and unfortunatly) done by a cast member!

My sister and I were once in line waiting at the disabled entrance (sister requires a wheelchair, though she's one of those that looks "perfectly fine") getting ready to ride, when the CM started to give us a hard time about getting on in front of others. The CM actually had the guts to ask her "so what's wrong with you that you cant get in line with everyone else?"

Can you believe that!
Needless to say, we went straight to management and straightened that one out.

Okay so I am hearing both sides of this story throughout this (now) 45 page thread.

On the one hand, when everyone is witnessing someone cutting in line, or someone with no obvious signs of requiring a wheelchair or special needs access, they get mad when the CM's dont' say a word. But then when someone has THEIR family member, who they admit has no outward appearance of needing the special needs access, questioned, they get angry and call management on them. And then everyone wonders why most CM's say nothing?!

You can't have it both ways, guys! Either you want the CM's to speak up, or you want them to clam up.

I do agree that the way the CM asked was probably not as tactful as it could have been, but I am glad she said anything at all, in light of all the abuse of the systems in place for legitimate needs such as your sister's!

 

[jann1033]

??? presumably the cm didn't see the sister get out of the wheel chair ( getting around in one is very difficult by the way, so I doubt many would "fake" needing one for very long) but a normal question to the affect of if they realized the entrance they were in was for physically challenged people ( or how ever it works, never used that entrance in wdw)would have be the best way to handle it.(I am sure people don't realize this ( sorry ot) but if you have an "invisible illness" ( I do) you get really sick of being challenged about it just cause some people are to ignorant to realize there IS such a thing.) maybe if the cms get rude answers the cm is being rude too (at least in this case) and causing some of the problem. my gripe is obviously able bodied line jumpers ( ie those who can leap across the lines again and again and again till they get up to the front) and no one says a word or like the "line cutting" thread, some feel it is perfectly ok to do so.

 

[scrump]

I think one of my fondest memories of WDW is my dad yelling at me, actually.

I was 6 years old and ***LOVED*** "small world" for some reason. LOVED it. Kept begging my parents to keep going on it with me; my mom dropped off after the 3rd time, and told me and my dad to go on without her. My dad must've gone on for 2 or 3 more times after that, and then got sick of it and told me to go on by myself, after which I KEPT riding the thing. My guess is that he tried to get me to move on, but I just wouldn't listen and kept riding it for a total of 15 times. It drove my parents CRAZY and my dad lost it on me in Fantasyland.

At first, I was and
then I was
twenty-some years later, my whole family remembers it as

Not to put in on the same level as truly abusive public yelling, but this has turned out to be a conversation piece for my parents when they roll their eyes and start to tell people what a Disney freak I am.

 

[Strawberry Lemonade]

Well, this isn't so much a "shock" as it was just something that left me with my mouth gaping in disbelief...

I overheard a woman tell her son (who looked to be about 10-12 years old) that she was sure the Indy Speedway was much better than Test Track because you can drive your own car. Test Track looked boring because, in her words, "they do it for you".

Now, you're welcome to like one over the other, but for that reason? Almost shocking.

 

[disneyaggie]

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Originally posted by Pig Pen
This happened in Dec 2001 -

We were waiting in line for Thunder Mt and heard hollering and screaming ahead of us. We saw a man grabbing and hitting a girl who was probably about 10 yo. Evidently she was afraid to ride the train and he was mad about it. At one point he started to strangle her. A couple of CMs witnessed the entire thing and didn't do anything. The man and girl were with several other people (members of the family I assume). The dad and daughter eventually got out of line and disappeared. Later in the day we saw them again outside HM. She was sitting on a bench crying and had red fingermarks on her throat and bruises on her face. I guess she was afraid of HM too.

I felt bad for her but what are you supposed to do?
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Should any of you witness any type of abuse towards anyone (any age applies), notify the closest CM immediately and request security. If this animal (and others posted here) behave like this in a crowded area, it sickens me to think what these cowards do behind closed doors. I say show them no mercy . . . or at least as much as they show those they abuse!

 

[PhotobearSam]

I agree...If I saw this I would probably start yelling for security and try to call protective services...

Abuse in any form is WRONG!!!

I sometimes hear people yell #%$@^*&^( words at their kids and tell them off and I can't help myself but to say something...Thank goodness I have a very large DH cause no one ever talks back at all after seeing him...

 

[DavefanBen]

Yes,

While swimming in the quiet pool later in the evening at Dixie Landings, a father and his 8-10 year old daughter were playing. They were probably European. Anyway his daughter was standing outside the pool near the edge, while his father rips down her bottoms, leaving me with something I shouldn't have seen. She squealed "Daddy!" playfully, but wasn't really upset or anything. That was odd.

We were in fantasyland near the carousel this trip when a girl got a little bit away from her father then preceded to take off all of her clothing, in a split second. If it wasn't so disturbing it might have been impressive how fast she got fully naked. The father immediately scooped her up, scolded her, and helped put her clothes back on.

Two pre-teen boys were in an Animal Kingdom bathroom when one decided to shank (to pull down his shorts) the other one. That was really odd.

Disney makes people crazy!

 

[samnbilly]

Wow this thread is long, but absolutely hysterical
We went to Disney last Oct. My 4y.o.(at the time) DD was begging me to go on ToT. Now, she's a big thrill seeker, but afraid of the dark, so I'm nicely trying to tell her I think its too scary for her. She's not having it. Okay-we'll go. We go on the ride and a bunch of teenagers sit with us in the car. She loves it, slightly scared , but she's loving it. Well I usually don't buy the pictures at the end of the ride, but I figure,this face, I've gotta see. We go up to the photos and our isn't there. One of the people who work there come over to us and tell us they can't put the picture up because one of the teens did something "obscene" in the photo. Can you believe it? Who would even think to do that on ToT?
The other shocking story I have is in the airport on our way to Disney. Our flight was delayed-like a few hours. We're all trying to be patient. I'm terrrified of flying- but I've got my happy pills-I'm okay. My DD (2 at the time) is playing right by me, by the counter, and this big pregnant lady is throwing a fit (like that's going to get us anywhere) she whips around and knocks my DD right to the ground and never apologizes. Her husband starts yelling at her for knocking my DD down. I just stood there staring at her. I couldn't even get a word in anyway. Her husband let her have it. Well, keep this thread going. It's great. We're going back in Oct. so I'm sure we'll have more to report.

 

[3DisneyNUTS]

Originally posted by TigrLvsPooh
Have you ever witnessed something in the park that totally shocked you???

This morning, while waiting in line for Playhouse Disney, a woman took a small child behind the concrete wall near the stage entrance and had him urinate. DH and I were both totally shocked! About two minutes later "Jamie" the star of the show walked right through the puddle on her way into the theatre. I will never forget that moment for the rest of my life. I seriously think my jaw hung open for five minutes because I just couldn't believe it.

Later this afternoon I saw a little girl, probably about 18 months old, playing in a puddle right in front of the NYC scene. She then rolled over onto her belly and drank some of the water right off the ground. The man with her just stood there and watched her... I was totally horrified.

What is wrong with people??????????

was this my sil??? LOL j/k

 

[*Sooner Girl*]

Originally posted by samnbilly
One of the people who work there come over to us and tell us they can't put the picture up because one of the teens did something "obscene" in the photo. Can you believe it? Who would even think to do that on ToT?QUOTE]

Actually there is a website where a CM let some of those "flashing" picture slip out of the park. Its on a website called "Link removed due to content"

I totally found this by just looking at Disney Urban legends on snopes.com.

Promise, not a perv!

 

[samnbilly]

OMG! People are strange. Never would have believed that unless I saw it.

 

[anewvance]

This is such a neat thread!!!


Last Dec, it was just my sister and I at Disney. We were at the bus stop at MGM waiting for a bus. We notice a lady yelling on her cell phone right around where the main road is for the buses to drive into the bus loop. She's yelling "where the h*ll are you" and then we notice 4 disney suits, 2 security guard and 3 or 4 regular cast members coming towards her.

It was hard to hear what was going on but they were saying something to the sort of come with us. They must have thought it was a threatening situation because they were standing back cautiously away from her asking her to come towards them. She's yelling back "I'm making a phone call" and she once again asked the person "where the h*ll are you?".

Then we see 3 police cars flying in and the lady takes off. She is running all through the cars and the CM's are all trying to figure the best way to trap her. By now the bus has come and we are sitting on it, another family gets on the bus and we take off.

The CM's are still all running through the parking lot (the one right behind the bus loop) and we get to the back entrance and we see 3 police cars surrounding a taxi cab with all the doors open. The lady was in hand cuffs sitting on the curb. Yikes, could you imagine being that cab driver?!?!?!?

Anyway, the other family on the bus said that the lady and another guy were trying to sell counterfit park tickets at the front of the park.. all that for less then the price of park tickets, wow!


Another situation we were in just a few months ago was more serious. We were staying at All Star Sports. My family and my sister and her 4 and 1 year old were swimming in the pool. My 4 year old nephew is afraid to swim so he only sits on the stairs and plays.

Now we are always very watchful of all our kids in the pool with floaties and the works.. but since nephew won't even contimplate actually going in, he didn't need them. I had my younger nephew and I would go under water and come up and he would pat my head back down, so the rest of the family was watching and laughing.

Next thing we know there is splashing about 3 feet away from the stairs. At first we figured it was this little boy who had been bugging us all by splashing around us and kicking us while swimming by.. He was like 4 years old and his only supervision was an elderly grandma who was all the way over at the toddler pool.

Imagine the shock when I realized it was my nephew splashing there who can't swim!!! I'd have to say he had been there underwater splashing for 10 seconds or so. With one swoop I grabbed him and his mom took him and he was coughing up water and gagging. Once he calmed down, he said that the little boy (who had been bothering us) had pushed my nephew into the pool!!!! By the time he told us this, the little boy and grandma were gone.

What shocks me the most? The whole time this happened, there was a life guard on duty and she never noticed a single thing. And the point of her being there would be????

 

[Chim Chiminy]

This one is a little wierd.

We split our last stay between SSR and POR.
POR was packed to the gills, people everywhere. I should have known when at check in we had to wait an hour, this was at 11:30 in the morning.

One afternoon we decided to head to Ol Man Island swimming pool. It was people soup. So crowded you could barely move. I managed to find a corner opposite the slide with a little breathing room for me and DD. As we were swimming in that small space I noticed a family nearby us. Two adults, two teens and a younger child who was maybe 9 or 10.
The dad was wanting everyone to play a game in the water. He had them all line up and they would take turns swimming through each others legs. I thought it was disturbing because he kept telling his wife very loudly "Spread your legs honey. Come on. Spread your legs for me!"
We got out of the pool and didn't go back the rest of the trip.

 

[musicalSaranader]

Chim, that's definitely more funny than disturbing, I think. Who knows if he even realized how it sounded when he said it!

 

[bishdom]

Hey all,

I don't post often, but I have a few of these that have happened to me.

1) Back in 2000 for MVMCP, the wife and I are walking down across the connection from the hub toward tomorrowland and we see a scuffle up ahead. Turns out a lady had one of the limited edition pins on and this guy decided he wanted it since he couldn't find one himself. He tried to grab it off of her and was jumped by a bunch of people. Security came and took the guy away. A CM told me he wasn't a collector at all, he just wanted to sell it on EBay or something.

2) Once again along the pin trading line. Same year, my wife decides to get into the pin craze and buys tons of them. Too many to fit on our lanyards so she buys one of the vests that the CM's often wear and covers it in pins. We had pre-purchased a package to the Candlelight Processional so we both got the limited edition 2k CP pins. So, we are walking along the path that links from the Imagination pavilion into World Showcase and this family comes up to my wife. The son, probably about 12, asks her if he can see her pins. She says sure and bends down so he can see them. He takes a rack pin off of his lanyard and says "I want that one." pointing to the CP limited edition pin. My wife tells him that she isn't trading that pin and the kid throws a fit screaming " YOU HAVE TO TRADE WITH ME! IT'S ON YOUR JACKET AND YOU HAVE TO!!!" She tells him, "No I don't. and I'm not going to." At this point the Dad steps in and starts screaming at her saying that his kid wants the pin and, by God, he is going to get it. I step up to the dad since he is getting a bit aggressive and then he says something that explains the whole thing... "I WANT TO TALK TO YOUR SUPERVISOR!!!!" A HA! She sweetly smiles and says "I don't work for Disney sir, I bought this jacket at the pin trading station..." He flushed bright red and said "Oh... They sell those!?!?!" heh.

3) We are waiting for the tram to the parking lot from AK and the tram pulls up crooked so everyone just goes into a free for all for a seat. My wife and I try to grab a row and there is only room for one of us so she goes to sit down and this woman just jumps down her throat and says "YOU CUT OFF MY MOTHER-IN-LAW!!! WE ARE A PARTY!!!" so my wife says " It wasn't intentional, the tram pulled up crooked and our row was filled..." Lady cuts her off and says "Well, WE ARE A PARTY!" ... That flipped my wife's last switch so she snaps back "SO SOOOORRRRY! It's not like you are riding DINOSAUR! It's a FREAKING TRAM RIDE!!!!!" At this point, a couple of nice folks behind us pointed out some other seats for us. Crazy, Crazy stuff.


This is a great thread, the mods ought to pin it.

 

[3DisneyNUTS]

See I know I may get flamed but instead of going along with the child and argueing why didn't you immediately tell the child you did not work for Disney. He obviously thought you were a CM refusing to trade with him. I actually feel badly for that family.

 

[BrerMom]

Originally posted by 3DisneyNUTS
See I know I may get flamed but instead of going along with the child and argueing why didn't you immediately tell the child you did not work for Disney. He obviously thought you were a CM refusing to trade with him. I actually feel badly for that family.

I just think it was a case of hindsight being 20/20. If she'd thought that he was thinking she was a CM, don't you think she'd have told him? If nothing else, telling him would encourage him to go away.

I feel for the family, too. Sounds like Dad's used to getting his way.