Have you ever had a shock?

[stinkerbelle]

Originally posted by NLK
The second was a few weeks ago at the WL. I was standing at the check desk when I turned to look at the lobby. I spotted a tall, large, man with a Harley Davidson Tee shirt, a leather vest, a loooong beard, and a loooong pony-tail. He looked like he was part of a motorcycle gang. He had a little 3 year old girl by the hand and the two of them were SKIPPING though the lobby. It was such a cute sight that I couldn't help smilling. It was so sweet and unexpected. I just wan't to share a happy story. I hope it bought a smile to your face too.

that is too sweet and too funny! It's nothing against the "harely looking guy"...but I find it so endearing when I see a big tough "manly man" type guy being so sweet and gentle with his daughter.

It did bring a smile to my face...thank you NLK!

 

[tc]

I was afraid this thread was going to get reprimanded or locked again for the discussion regarding kidnapping. I am so glad it did not deteriorate, thanks.

My shocking moment.

September 2001 a couple weeks after 9/11. We were at MK enjoying the only showing of Spectro for our trip. It was extremely busy. We were watching from the right of the Christmas store, near the smoking area, looking out over the bridge to Liberty Square (a pretty goo view of the parade since they let no one stand on the bridge itself). We had begun talking to a family from St. Louis who had a little girl about 3. We decided to just stand around and chat instead of trying get out in the crowds. We looked over at the bridge and saw a man talking to a little boy, and then the boy turned around and pee'd over the railing. The man (I assumed the dad) was sheilding him from the inside of the bridge, trying to block the boy from site. I don't think he thought about how all of us on the water side of the bridge had a direct view of what his son was doing. The family's little girl that we were talking to kept asking what he was doing. We were shocked and a little tickled that his dad thought he had all his bases covered. This was a case of someone knowing he was misbehaving and trying to obviously hide it.

 

[Tigger22]

Speaking of PI, we were there to celebrate St. Patrick's Day this year. DH & I had met up with both my sisters and their families, and my niece (my brother's daughter) who was there for spring break. We were all outside by the stage near the RnR club, and the CM's had just finished throwing beads, etc. out to the crowd. Two guys approached my niece and her friend and said something about "If you flash me, I'll give you my beads" - and my niece turned around and grabbed my sister and said "This is my AUNT"....the two guys beat it really quick! They should have been grateful that my sister didn't know what they had said to my niece - or they would have been really embarrassed (my sister has a quick wit and can be a bit wise when she wants). We all had a laugh over that. I guess they thought they were in New Orleans!

I also have trouble with the rude people at WDW and other places. If we encounter rude people when we are out anywhere, we always joke to ourselves "I bet those are the people who don't move all the way across the row at WDW" (Don't you just want to scream at those people who park themselves in the middle of the row of seats regardless of how many times the CM says "Please fill in all available seats in the row"!) Just a pet peeve!


Tigger22

 

[cindyfan]

"I bet those are the people who don't move all the way across the row at WDW" (Don't you just want to scream at those people who park themselves in the middle of the row of seats regardless of how many times the CM says "Please fill in all available seats in the row"!) Just a pet peeve!

Had to laugh at this one...........When we were at the "Sounds Dangerous" show in April, there were these 3 guys (looked like maybe dad and pre-teen sons). That is exactly what they did....parked themselves right in the middle and would not move!! So we just crawled over them knowing the show is in the dark anyway!!!! When they came out after us I heard another person (who also crawled over them) ask if they could SEE OKAY!!! It was pretty funny!!!

 

[Tarheel Tink]

Bumping because this is too good to lose! I wish I could think of something but my mind is too distracted by all these incredible stories, LOL!
A minor one I can remember is pushing my mother's wheelchair on the outside view platform of the California Grill to see the fireworks at Magic Kingdom. As I wheel Mom along, I see a young boy darting back and forth excitedly without looking where he is going with his mother (I assume)nearby not watching him. I was thinking "he's probably going to smack right into Mom's injured foot with our luck" so I started talking out loud saying "Watch out, coming through..." At the last second he jerked away from the railing he was watching at (I thought we were safe at this point) and smashed into Mom who cried out in agony.

I was livid at this point (at his mother) and snarled something to her as I checked Mom over (who was quietly crying in pain). The *^%#) woman had the gall to say something rude to my poor mother (along the line of "You almost ran over my son...."). At this point I focused entirely on the woman and quietly and furiously let her know her lack of parental observation was the reason my mother was in pain- I was shocked that she would have the nerve to blame a wheelchair bound elderly woman who is being pushed by someone else for HER lack of control of her child despite my warnings as I approached them. I tossed in a comment about "classless people are everywhere" and got some applause from nearby people who had witnessed the incident. The woman took her son and slunk off with her tail between her legs to a different area.

 

[MaryKatesMom]

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

 

[Darian]

Hi TC -

Its all good! Our discussion on kidnapping was very friendly, educational (for me at least!) and cordial. Phamton was the very picture of kindness as she gently showed me how I'd been suckered by an urban legend. There certainly are some wonderfully gracious people here on the DIS!

Tarheel Tink - your poor mom! Good job on setting the kid's mom straight. On a similar thread of "you had the bad taste to complain after i hurt you" thing...

DW and I were at DL last week to watch the parade, as a friend's daughters (and their school's marching band) were perfoming. After the parade, the crowd started moving towards the DK exits. We were just in front of City Hall when this crazed woman with a stroller rammed the back of my DW's heel, leaving a good sized dent and friction burn mark up her achilles' tendon. I grabbed her arm as DW went down and kept her from falling on the kid in the stroller. The woman was livid that my poor DW got in her way. Well, in the tradition of Tarheel Tink, this woman got informed by me about the error of her ways. She sullenly apologized for injuring my DW.

A couple CM's were on the scene almost instantly which was nice. The "stroller bandit" ran for the hills.

Darian

 

[nativetxn]

I don't think it's about how much you know, but how much you're willing to learn.

delikado, that is so true. I love this.

tc, if we can keep this post to a discussion of things that shock you, no one will lock it. {{{HUGS}}} sweetie, I haven't seen much of you lately, you little cutie pie.

Okay, y'all, a friendly little reminder to try to keep to the topic so that we can keep this one open longer.

Is that a deal?

Katholyn

 

[Grog]

Okay, y'all, a friendly little reminder to try to keep to the topic so that we can keep this one open longer.

Deal..and a bump!

 

[MELSMICE]

Okay, this didn't happen at WDW, but it is kind of Disney related. I just got home from taking my 3 DD's to see the Lizzie McGuire movie (A Disney film). We sat in the 2nd to last row.

A party of pre-teens came in & sat behind us. Looked like it may have been a b-day party or something. At that point I didn't see any adults, but a few minutes later some adults & more children came in & sat around us. I couldn't tell if they were all together or not.

Anyway, about 20 minutes into the movie the group of girls behind us starting talking loud, giggling, kicking the seats, & getting very, very loud. I turned around a few times, hoping they would get the hint to quiet down. They didn't & I didn't hear an adult ask them to behave. This continued for a good 10 minutes & they kept getting louder & louder. One of my DD's kept looking at me. When it got harder to actually hear the movie I turned around & quite loudly said "Girls, people are trying to watch the movie". Normally I would never do anything like this, but they were just so disruptive. They got very quiet (thank goodness). I still didn't see or hear a parent. Finally, about 15 minutes later I saw a man from down at the other end of the row go to them & say "shut up". I don't know if he was their chaperone or just another patron.

Regardless though, if he was their chaperone he should have said something to them well before hand & if he wasn't then where were their parents?

Like I said, not an actual WDW story, but it still shocked me how rude these girls were & the lack of supervision.

 

[Belle5]

2 weeks ago when we went to ice station cool a goup of unsupervised early teens (13) were in the front tunnel (the snowy part) of ice station cool having an all out (not just a two second) running/crashing/throwing ice ball fight. We got pelted by ice in the face and I got knocked to the side. I have already had a difficult time with my pregnancy and there was no way I was going to stand by and let myself get knocked down possibly hurting my unborn little boy. I looked at those kids and I loudly said," If you knock down a pregnant lady there will be big trouble!" They responded with, "Oh, really? Like, what are you going to do?" Just then my 3 teenaged boys (2 of them 6 feet) came behind me and supported my arm and gave those younger boys the look that told them it wouldn't be the pregnant lady they would deal with. They scampered away. I marched up to the check out desk and told the CM what happened. He was clearly ourtraged that these kids weren't stopped by the CM standing at the entrance to the tunnel. He went after those rascals himself. A few days later we went back to ice station cool and that same CM was standing guard inside the snowy tunnel. There really is a lot of potential for an accident in there with how slippery and icy it is--let alone if there is horseplay.

 

[melindaandrob]

When we went through the snow section of ice station cool we encountered a bunch of kids doing the same thing. The cm was actually encouraging this. The cm then tried to get the rest of us involved, we had just left 6 ft. of snow so this was not something we were going to enjoy. Dh turned to the cm and said "These kids are from Canada. Who do you think will win?" We proceeded through the tunnel without incident.

 

[Belle5]

Where as I said my story may not really be shocking---your's really is! It is unthinkable that a CM would encourage this behavior! How do they know that an elderly person, a toddler and infant, a pregnant woman or anyone unprepared for an assault won't walk into the tunnel next and be hit?

 

[heffalump9]

Our big shock was at PI while visiting the Adventurer's Club (03/03). This was our second evening at the Club and we wanted to see the later performances. We had seen older children at the shows and that's fine but what shocked us was a couple with a very very tired 4 year old. They were pushing an umbrella stroller all over the club with a stuffed Winnie the Pooh in it and the 4 year old sound a sleep on DH's shoulder. I know couples need an evening out but this couple needed a baby sitter. It was a shame to see them drinking while their child needed a warm bed. They stayed for several performances (till almost Midnight)and just kept enjoying themselves with no thought of the child except to move him from shoulder to shoulder.

 

[BabyMo]

Darian, I remember my mother always telling me the story of the girl whose hair color was changed when she was kidnapped at Disneyland. I was shocked when I found out a couple of years ago on snopes that it wasn't true.

I have a story from DL.

This is yet another public urination story. My father, my sister and I had stopped to get water from a fountain in Tomorrowland. To our left, a little old grandmother is encouraging her grandson to pee right there by the bench next to us! This was at least 10-12 years ago and it's stuck with me ever since.

I have another story from DL. We were waiting in line for the Matterhorn and this little boy dropped a wrapper on the ground. I don't even know if it was on purpose or not. His father began screaming at him to pick it up. It was very disturbing.

 

[dan-tot]

WOW i finally made it through. I guess I should feel deprived,not really. I have encountered rude people wanting to get in front my sister who uses a wheelcar. Things of that nature and people who use the understanding english when they are trying to but up in line but I have never seen anything weird in the park. I guess I am concentrating to much on my sister and brother's fun that I don't see them. I can't emagine parents doing what they do to their kids I have never seen that except maybe a pat on the but but never full abuse. I would have to correct the situation if this happened in front of me. I have stopped in stride when I was trying to find something in a map but I think it was trying to figure out where to go next. If I did that to anyone I am truly sorry. I have read all the posts and I think what it boils down to if you cannot supervise your kids or you are not a good parent then why waste the money to come to DL or WDW just do everyone a favor and stay home. Oh by the way I have only seen the brazil group do one thing. They crowded the fastpass lane at splash mountain where people couldn't get around them going up towards bear band. BibbidyBobbidyBoo e-mail me at modelar7@aol.com I would like to talk atkins.


Dan-tot

 

[Scoobmuzic]

Every time I read the new posts, I seem to remember another thing that happened.

This time I was videotaping the tree lighting ceremony at EPCOT, when this woman from a news station and her camera person were trying to get closer to the front. We had staked out our spot about 20min before the ceremony started just so I could get a good position for taping. She pushed by me and set up herself and the camera almost right infront of me.

My boyfriend and the people we had gotten friendly with during our wait for the show, realizing what she had done, started making loud comments about rude people and some of us got here early, stuff like that. She finaly got the hint and moved but not before she shot me a nasty look. like it was my fault. Go figure!!

 

[Darian]

BabyMo & Bev -

Yesterday I had a long heart to heart talk with my friend who works security at DL about this very issue. And to keep in line with this thread - shocks - I must say it is "shocking" (but in a good way) how efficient security is at DL. Just as the scopes.com article had said... no sucessful kidnappings at DL. That isn't to say there have not been attempts. Just none were sucessful. He described a number of strategies employed by the park to help ensure this success, that probably wouldn't be appropriate to mention in a public forum. He is an humble guy and was quick to point out past success in this area doesn't guarantee future success - the whole pride comes before a fall (think Titanic) thing.


So, my previous post about kidnapping at DL (a very shocking topic indeed) was very much in error. Thanks guys for setting me straight! Mmmmm, crow.... yummm - tastes like chicken!

Darian

PS - dear moderator... don't worry... its my last word on "kidnapping at DL"

 

[Jay Since 72]

Originally posted by MaryKatesMom
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

Thanks, MaryKatesMom.


I can recall being at The Marketplace (as it used to be called, is it still?) and renting a watersprite w/my girlfriend. We were not in bathing suits, as we were IN A BOAT. I'd rented them before, and not had a problem. Until this day...

Several late teens/early 20's CM's, clearly on a break from lifeguarding/working the boat dock, were tearing around the lagoon in watersprites, driving wrecklessly close to each other. I tried to stay away from them (it's a good-sized lagoon, and the boats are small...), but to no avail. They pursued us around the lake, splashing and partially swamping our boat, even after I asked them to stop. You should've seen the glare I got from one of them when I headed my boat straight back to the dock to find an CM supervisor (amazing how tough some people are when they're a safe distance away, huh?). Needless to say, I was fuming. I was probably in my mid twenties myself, and had been going to Disney for 20 years. Don't know what ever happened, but the letter I wrote, while stressing that I still loved WDW, practically burned a hole in the envelope.

 

[Grog]

Mmmmm, crow.... yummm - tastes like chicken!

Darian, I hope it tastes better than the DL chicken you mentioned on another thread