Shocked and disgusted!

[Bullseye]

I hate this expression! It's justification for bad behavior! Yes, kids push boundaries, but when they're not called on it, those boundaries continue to get worse as they get older. Then it turns into things like drugs, alcohol, or worse.

'Teens will be teens'/'We're just young and having fun' is the excuse that my dorm neighbors use to smoke weed, snort cocaine, and blast music at 3 in the morning on many occasions. Unfortunately, the RAs use the same excuse to not do anything about it. So, yes, it CAN lead to worse behavior in the long run.

Wow I guess he has quite the life of crime ahead of him!

Marijuana is the flame, heroin is the fuse, LSD is the bomb. So don't you try to equate liquor to marijuana, mister, not with me. You may be able to sell that jazz to another pothead, but not to somebody who holds some sick kid's head while he vomits and wretches on a curbstone at four o’clock in the morning. And when his legs get enough starch into them so he can stand up and empty his pockets, you can bet he'll have a stick or two of marijuana. And you can double your money he'll turn up a sugar cube or a cap or two. So don't you con me with your mind expansion slop. I deal with kids every day. I try to clean up the mess that people like you make out of 'em. I'm the expert here, you're not. So when Disney says to keep all hands and feet in the boat...they mean it!

 

[NYDisneyKid]

Disneyland in california

But the persons post I was talking about is in the WDW not DL area of this board.

 

[Jennasis]

But this thread is in the WDW not DL area of this board.

They were simply sharing a similar experience they've had on a different ride somewhere else.

 

[livinlife25]

We watched some teenagers at Epcot this week trying to do some cheerleading stunt in front of Spaceship Earth. They dropped her and she hit her head on the ground :/

 

[NYDisneyKid]

Marijuana is the flame, heroin is the fuse, LSD is the bomb. So don't you try to equate liquor to marijuana, mister, not with me. You may be able to sell that jazz to another pothead, but not to somebody who holds some sick kid's head while he vomits and wretches on a curbstone at four o’clock in the morning. And when his legs get enough starch into them so he can stand up and empty his pockets, you can bet he'll have a stick or two of marijuana. And you can double your money he'll turn up a sugar cube or a cap or two. So don't you con me with your mind expansion slop. I deal with kids every day. I try to clean up the mess that people like you make out of 'em. I'm the expert here, you're not. So when Disney says to keep all hands and feet in the boat...they mean it!

Jack Webb said that?

 

[Bullseye]

Jack Webb said that?

Yes Detective Joe Friday was a very serious dude....even about theme park rules

 

[NYDisneyKid]

Yes Detective Joe Friday was a very serious dude....even about theme park rules

Here's the clip but no mention of Disney

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Twre6ItGEI

 

[Bullseye]

Here's the clip but no mention of Disney

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Twre6ItGEI

Yeah no kidding I was trying to make it relevant to the thread ...when other posters were equating bad amusement park behavior leading to drug use.

 

[Mitzicat]

While I would love to have Pirates, Splash or Small World be a lazy river type ride with cleaner water...I gag thinking about getting in the water as it is now.

When taking the Keys to the Kingdom tour you see the holding tank for a large portion of the water needed for Splash. Lets just say my family always keeps their mouth shut. The water was gross. It was the same color as the water from the paint brush jar in a kids art class. Kind of this murky brownish - watered down chocolate milk color. There were flip flops, hats, popcorn boxes, park maps, and all kinds of other items floating in the water. So gross.

And to the Mom who posted that her son did this...since you are from Maryland...I am curious which school he goes to!

 

[andreajanowiak]

My black canvas Vans got splashed while we were on PoTC earlier this year and the water actually turned a portion of my shoe white until I washed them.

 

[fadedglitter]

We watched some teenagers at Epcot this week trying to do some cheerleading stunt in front of Spaceship Earth. They dropped her and she hit her head on the ground :/

Yep. There was a group doing cheer lifts in front of the castle until security came over. He pointed out that one of the girls could fall and land on a small child.

 

[Toffeewoffy]

While I would love to have Pirates, Splash or Small World be a lazy river type ride with cleaner water...I gag thinking about getting in the water as it is now.

When taking the Keys to the Kingdom tour you see the holding tank for a large portion of the water needed for Splash. Lets just say my family always keeps their mouth shut. The water was gross. It was the same color as the water from the paint brush jar in a kids art class. Kind of this murky brownish - watered down chocolate milk color. There were flip flops, hats, popcorn boxes, park maps, and all kinds of other items floating in the water. So gross.

And to the Mom who posted that her son did this...since you are from Maryland...I am curious which school he goes to!

And if you'd been listening, you'd have heard your guide tell you that the water is dyed so that people looking into it can't see the tracks and rails which guide the boats along. This goes for Jungle Cruise, Pirates and IaSW.

 

[mom2rtk]

Yep. There was a group doing cheer lifts in front of the castle until security came over. He pointed out that one of the girls could fall and land on a small child.

Like it wouldn't be bad enough for a girl to land on concrete. I guess it would take landing on a small child to make it a bad thing?

 

[SyracuseWolvrine]

I wanted to come to this thread and formerly apologize on behalf of my son. He in fact did jump out of the boat on IASW on this very class trip. I am surprised that a member of this message board saw this unfortunate incident. I know I feel better now.

You should probably make sure that he gets a tetanus shot. It's been several years now, but when I worked at the ride, any CM who accidentally fell in was required to get a tetanus shot, and I don't know of any guests that fell in, but I'm sure it would be strongly recommended for them as well.

 

[Alice Royal]

We watched some teenagers at Epcot this week trying to do some cheerleading stunt in front of Spaceship Earth. They dropped her and she hit her head on the ground :/

Yep. There was a group doing cheer lifts in front of the castle until security came over. He pointed out that one of the girls could fall and land on a small child.

Like it wouldn't be bad enough for a girl to land on concrete. I guess it would take landing on a small child to make it a bad thing?

I JUST saw this happen with a bunch of girls (they looked to be about middle-school aged) in the line for Space Mountain today. Using the metal corrals to hoist themselves up and attempt to stunt...parent/chaperone was with them and didn't say a thing...I gave the stink-eye and it stopped. Had it continued I would have clued in the nearest CM. THAT is one of the most annoying things I have encountered in all of my time at WDW. SO many airheaded people from cheer and dance teams 'stunting' over concrete (or in my case, metal)...have they not seen videos of unregulated stunts resulting in neck injuries and paralysis? Sometimes I wonder how many of them are going to be future Darwin Award nominees...

 

[mikedoyleblogger]

Teenager being a teenager. Surely not something that anyone should do, but at the same time doesn't sound like anything too major to me either. So many worse things that teenagers are doing out there.

If you saw what the ride looks like with no water in it, you might think differently. It's not like jumping into a pool. It's like jumping in front of a 2,000-pound oncoming boat that you can't stop and that can crush you to death or pin you underneath and drown you. There are water inlets and outlets, bumpers, and underwater guide rails your hands or feet can become caught on while the next boat approaches. And then that student would be dead. Jumping out of ride vehicles or putting yourself in front of rides as a stunt has injured or killed lots of theme park visitors, even at Disney. At Disneyland over the years, the (former) People Mover and monorail killed several people stunting on the right of way just like this. And a worker at Disneyland Paris was killed on that park's it's a small world by being dragged under an oncoming boat and crushed.

 

[crazyventures]

But the persons post I was talking about is in the WDW not DL area of this board.

Sorry, I'm planning a trip to WDW and am on this board a lot. But yes, this happened at DL.