Odd Situation At MGM Today

[peter11435]

yes some are.

Actually none of the roads, signs, lights, or traffic lights on Disney property are owned by the county. Some are owned and operated by Disney. The rest are owned and operated by the Reedy Creek Improvement District. The RCID is Disney's private goverment that covers the entire WDW property.

 

[Miss Jasmine]

Actually none of the roads, signs, lights, or traffic lights on Disney property are owned by the county. Some are owned and operated by Disney. The rest are owned and operated by the Reedy Creek Improvement District. The RCID is Disney's private goverment that covers the entire WDW property.

Ahhh gotcha, I forgot about the RCID. However, I know that certain entities can turn over roads to other entities for maintenance and other issues. I don't know if RCID has done this though.

 

[snyderla]

I am curious to find out what it was all about, I wonder if we will ever find out though.

Lori

 

[jamzots]

Keep us posted, let us know if you find out anything, o.k.?

 

[Poohbear123]

Anything yet?

 

[Muffy]

I'm bumping this up in hopes that someone knows what happened!

 

[tmt martins]

It may have just been a theft of some displayed stuff as well .At least I hope it was just something like that .They also might have just been doing an exercise as well they do them here in balto every once in awhile as well.

 

[iluvwesties]

Anything yet?

I'm wondering the same thing also !!!



iluvwesties (aka Carol)

 

[Pluto4Pres]

I would have to guess that this activity is related to a lost child reported to a CM at MGM. I was in that situation once several years ago when my 8YO DD wandered away from us at HISTKAZ, now referred to as "Honey I Lost the Kid Zone" by our family. Once we contacted a CM, several CMs went into action following a set plan. They do this all the time and there are protocols that they follow. One CM was assigned to stay with us and she assured us that the park was prepared to do everything in their power to find the lost child. She said that if the child was not found in "X" amount of minutes, MGM would start a lockdown or something where no one would be allowed to leave with a child fitting our DD's description. I would say that this is probably what the OP observed. They were checking for a lost child of a certain description.

It's not that they're twarting kidnappings all the time. It probably has never happened. But they have to plan for the worse case scenario. This would also explain the intrusiveness of the search. If the police were in theory trying to prevent a kidnapping, the situation is serious enough to warrant a cursory search of vehicle compartments that could conceivably hide a child.

Again, this is just my guess. Maybe someone will discover the real story.

 

[Wendy1953]

Bumping to find out if anyone knows what really happened.....feralpeg????where are you??? You get us all questioning what happened, and you disappear.

 

[Schmeck]

Well, with the "Patriot Act', they can do just about anything in the name of protecting us from evil-doers, right?

If a child wandered off/got lost in the parking lot, I'd see them doing the above described car searches! Wouldn't have to be a kidnapping scenario, maybe just a 'got an extra kid in there?' one...

 

[stenogoddess]

bump

 

[Lives4Disney]

I read the whole thread and want to know what happened!!!

I am so curious......Just subscribing hoping Feralpeg returns & there is an answer!!

Lives4Disney

 

[cara76]

Wow I wonder what happened too. I haven't been watching the news so I couldn't tell you if anything was on it. Hope Feralpeg has an answer soon.

 

[DVCLiz]

If the incident wasn't publicized, Feralpeg won't have an answer for us - she was simply describing something she saw and wondering about it. My money is on either a training exercise or a theft of some kind.

 

[Feralpeg]

Hey, guys. Sorry, I went to DTD for dinner. I haven't heard a thing. I have several neighbors who work for Disney. The ones in higher up positions haven't been home. The other didn't have a clue. I'm not sure we will ever know. Nothing has been on the local news. My guess is that there was a lost child. They went into a lockdown thing just to be sure and then the child was found. This is just a guess on my part. Next time I'm at MGM, I'll try to talk to a security person. I'm not sure how much they will tell me, but I'll report what I find out. Sorry for the lack of information!

 

[cara76]

If the incident wasn't publicized, Feralpeg won't have an answer for us - she was simply describing something she saw and wondering about it. My money is on either a training exercise or a theft of some kind.

She said her neighbor was a CM and was looking into it for her.

 

[sha_lyn]

Somewhere around the 7th or 8th of December, (I lose track of time at Disney!) we were heading into MK in the morning and saw a car flipped over and burned completely up on the side of the road inside the Disney property. There were police there and everything. It looked awful. I wanted so badly to hear that everyone had gotten out ok. We watched the news that night and saw nothing about it, which I thought was very odd. But I'm from a small town and that would definitely made the news here. Maybe not in Orlando.

We saw it on the orlando local news (can't remember what channel) while staying at the Royal Pacific. a man had a heart attack while driving, he either died immediately or soon after. I believe his wife was injured.

 

[DVCLiz]

She said her neighbor was a CM and was looking into it for her.

Oh, right, I forgot that - sorry!!!! Sounds like she didn't hear anything, though. Hope it turns out to be nothing!!!

 

[searchdisney]

Here's the link and some info from Scopes:
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/parental/kidnap.htm

Claim: Children are spirited away from amusement parks and shopping centers by kidnappers who alter the appearance of their victims before smuggling them out the exits.
Status: False.

This type of tale that has been circulating for decades, always involving the kidnapping of children from family-type public places such as amusement parks and shopping centers. A kidnapper snatches a child away from an inattentive parent, drugs it, and hustles it into a restroom; there the abductor performs a quick haircut, dye job, and clothing change on the child to conceal its identity (and sometimes to obscure its gender) and wraps it in blankets before attemping to quickly and quietly spirit the child off the premises. Meanwhile, a vigilant security force has sealed off all the exits, and the attempted kidnapping is thwarted either because the kidnapper realizes he cannot escape undetected and simply abandons his intended victim in the bathroom, or because the child's parent is monitoring the exits (in person or via security cameras) and recognizes the child by its distinctive shoes, which the kidnapper has neglected to change or remove...

Over the years, this story has been set in virtually every type of locale where families gather with large numbers of strangers, such as shopping malls, beaches, carnivals, fairs, and amusement parks. Since the details of urban legends tend to localize on the most prominent examples of their kind, this legend has become more and more associated with places such as Disney theme parks and Wal-Mart stores, both examples of well-known large facilities frequented by families with children, and both part of huge corporate enterprises. (In truth, no child has ever been kidnapped from a Disney theme park, and although the abduction and murder of 6-year-old Adam Walsh led Wal-Mart to create their Code Adam protocol for locating missing children in their stores, Adam Walsh actually disappeared from a Sears outlet, and no evidence was found to indicate that the abductor had made an effort to alter Adam's appearance.)