The "ALL Things THEFT" in Disney Thread

[MINNIE OF TWO MICE]

Wow, someone has had a bit too much coffee today! I politely asked about your typing style (which was NOT all caps, you simply capitalized the the first letter of every single word in your post).



Someone who gets so excited about an anonymous post on an online message board is hardly laid back.



Right back at ya!

As mentioned, typing in all caps is considered rude, because it is the equivelent of shouting. If you want to type using capital letters at the beginning of each word, go for it. It must be extremely time consuming to type that way and it is hard to read, but perhaps you aren't really interested in communicating?

As to the theft issue at Disney, it's like every other place. Do not ever leave valuables unattended.

AND I POLITELY ANSWERED. BY THE WAY.....THIS TIME I THINK IM YELLING.

 

[MINNIE OF TWO MICE]

Our MacLaren stroller was stolen outside of the stroller parking area in front of Splash. It was very distinctive (& expensive) and we know that whoever took it knew the value. We were back to the stroller within a half hour's time and it was just plain gone. Contacted L&F 2xs a day every day for a month to see if it was turned in but it was gone for good!

We also found some cash during that trip & turned it into a CM with the location of exactly where it was found. Hope it found its way to the rightful owner.



Here's the "netiquette" about caps typing:
"#9 Do not type in all caps. Typing in caps is considered shouting or screaming online. Various studies on the topic reflect that it is more difficult and takes longer to read text that is typed in all caps. "

This is found on Centenary College's Online Etiquette Page. Usually all caps, or lots of them, help to convey a message of yelling. Since text does not "emote" for us, then caps are one way of getting your underlying meaning across.

HTH!

MAYBE YOU NEED A REVIEW YOURSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO BACK AND CHECK #5AND #8. I AM OFFICIALLY OFF THIS SITE. IT IS ASHAME THAT THIS IS THE FIRST RUDE PEOPLE I HAVE COME ACROSS. FOR EVEYONE ELSE...I HOPE YOU HAVE GREAT AND WONDERFUL TRIPS TO WDW AND YOUR PROPERTY STAYS SAFE. I HAVE NEVER HAD A BAD EXPERIENCE THERE. ONLY GREAT TRIPS AND MANY MORE TO COME. THE VERY NICE PERSON THAT STARTED THIS THREAD HAS OPENED MY EYES AND MANY THANKS TO HIM. HAVE A GREAT DAY.

 

[!@#$%]

MAYBE YOU NEED A REVIEW YOURSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO BACK AND CHECK #5AND #8. I AM OFFICIALLY OFF THIS SITE. IT IS ASHAME THAT THIS IS THE FIRST RUDE PEOPLE I HAVE COME ACROSS. FOR EVEYONE ELSE...I HOPE YOU HAVE GREAT AND WONDERFUL TRIPS TO WDW AND YOUR PROPERTY STAYS SAFE. I HAVE NEVER HAD A BAD EXPERIENCE THERE. ONLY GREAT TRIPS AND MANY MORE TO COME. THE VERY NICE PERSON THAT STARTED THIS THREAD HAS OPENED MY EYES AND MANY THANKS TO HIM. HAVE A GREAT DAY.

Thanks for calling me nice. This wasnt the place for this argument. From what i read, the response to your caps was just curiousity. You shouldnt have taken it personally. Of course it turned personal later, but it looks to me like you kinda took the question the wrong way. ln chatrooms its easy to "misread" someones intentions. They might be saying it with a laugh, smile, inquisitive, or hate. What i try to do (and I'm not perfect... i screwed up a good thread recently when I jumped to conclusions) but I try to read it through a couple of times and see maybe some friendly sarcasm, or joking. If I absolutely cant see any way but rude, then I try to either ignore it or... heck I might bite their head off back! Who am i kiddin!!!
BUT dont leave the chatroom for something that small. BESIDES, youve got DIS in your blood now... you can NEVER leave BOOHOOHAAHAAA (menacing laugh). This is my third user name. I left twice over people being rude and attacking me. I kept coming back, and since THEY didnt change their names, I now have a better idea of who to stay leery of. if ive learned anything here, its that people are opinionated, rude, and hateful... AS WELL AS friendly, informative, and caring. Just shake it off. Noone here is perfect, though a few DISers think THEY are. Give it another chance on another subject.

PS How DID you type like that? Do you have software that automatically Caps the first letter of each word? If so where did ya get it? I thought it was kinda cool myself!

 

[!@#$%]

My new computer has a new keyboard, and I screw up 1/4th of what I type. if i didnt proofread it would look Japanese! (like the little "i"s; I hit the shift button, but only half of them take.)

 

[welovedis]

MAYBE YOU NEED A REVIEW YOURSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO BACK AND CHECK #5AND #8. I AM OFFICIALLY OFF THIS SITE. IT IS ASHAME THAT THIS IS THE FIRST RUDE PEOPLE I HAVE COME ACROSS. FOR EVEYONE ELSE...I HOPE YOU HAVE GREAT AND WONDERFUL TRIPS TO WDW AND YOUR PROPERTY STAYS SAFE. I HAVE NEVER HAD A BAD EXPERIENCE THERE. ONLY GREAT TRIPS AND MANY MORE TO COME. THE VERY NICE PERSON THAT STARTED THIS THREAD HAS OPENED MY EYES AND MANY THANKS TO HIM. HAVE A GREAT DAY.

I'm sorry you were offended at what I posted, I meant it more as a way to pass along the info rather than in a mean way. Guess that was exactly the point I was attempting to make, when you are speaking in person with someone you can clearly (usually) see and understand the intent behind the words. Written word emotes very little and all caps or capitalizing words is a way to get an emotion across.

You said that you never heard of that info so I was just passing it along, you may, sometime in the future, want to visit here again or another site and that is known as shouting in the cyberworld.

Again, sorry if I offended, the bottom of my original said HTH-which stands for hope this helps & I hope it does.

 

[VirtuallyMe]

To get back to the topic at hand...

We had a digital camera stolen- yes through stupidity on our part- we all stopped for a break of Mickey Bars in Tomorrowland and then had potty breaks- and the camera got left...

Unfortunately it had photos of my kids with Marry Poppins and Bert and Alice and the Mad Hatter- both pairs had spent a long time with my kids and were just walking around- it wasn't a line thing- so we had many pictures and we do miss not having those today- We had also purchased a brand new card for it... just a few days before...

Yes- it is one of those things that taught us a lesson about minding our belongings- dh to this day attaches the camera to his belt and it does not come off until we are back in the resort.

We also went to lost and found and checked probably 3-4 times a week for a month or longer once we got home... but no luck

I did go with a CM friend of mine later to the Cast Connections store and she showed me all the unclaimed lost and found items that end up for sale- jewelry, cameras, video games- and even someone's "grill" (the kind the rappers sing about not the kind you cook on) There were also several very nice strollers- some I know that were too expensive to be left behind on purpose- makes me wonder if some that were stollen were taken to a different park and then abandoned- so that somehow they get crossed in the lost and found claims...

 

[mmmcq]

Well I find this depressing to even remember......

On our July '03 trip we were celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary. I had read on DIS about a scavenger hunt that giftsofalifetime.com had set up for someone and arranged one for my DH. It was to start at the wishing well outside the castle in the MK.

My DD's were 14, 12 and 4 then. We had a stroller of couse and both girls had pin trading books with them....that we had purchased at CR a few mornings before. They had spent hours organizing their pins and were really into the game of trading with CM's. The books were generally in the lower part of the stroller which was under an adults' supervision.

Unfortunately in the excitement of the moment we met up with our "fairy" and as the scavenger hunt began, one of my DD's put their "book" down on the bench as we walked toward the shop at the corner where the next clue was. She immediately remembered...and we all ran back.

In that 30 seconds the book was taken. We searched everywhere, filed reports everywhere, checked with Disney everywhere and called Disney 50 times after we returned from that trip. The book was never turned in.

There was in all probability $100 worth of pins in that book. Yeah, I knew it was our fault that the girls had them in the park, but as a family we just don't lose many things. We are very, very vigilant about our stuff and safety in general. And they wanted their pins with them to trade.

But while I was trying to do something special for my husband....someone else made a decision to do something not so nice. I wish I could tell you that the day wasn't spoiled. But my DD was so upset, she got my DH upset and it was really hard to get the magic back for the hunt. We all put on our very best Disney smiles and went forward....but it wasn't what could have been.

Boy, that was an expensive trip. I had to replace the book and a bunch of pins. And the hunt cost a pretty penny. I won't be doing that again anytime soon.

It just galls me, however, that whomever took that book didn't have the decency to turn it into a CM. Someone new exactly what they had found.

ps. Girlzmom Jeanne - I absolutely undersand how devastating that loss of the formula was. My middle DD had an absorption issue and was only 12 lbs at a year! We went thru every single formula there was until the pediatrician and GI doc settled on 32/32A (or something like that). We had to order it from the hospital pharmacy and if we didn't plan ahead we could be in a real bind if the pharmacy was out of stock. At the time ('02/03) it was $60/can and wasn't covered by insurance. We absolutely called it "liquid gold".

 

[Barak's Disney]

We had our camera stolen (in 1998 or 1999) at the lobby of the Polynesian. It was a 35mm camera with about 20 pictures on it. We were waiting to board the bus for the Disney Cruise - when we got up to head for the bus, we forgot the camera in a chair. I realized the error in about five minutes, but it was gone. I checked at the front desk, but they didn't have it. It was only about $150 or so, but our pictures were all gone and we had to use a crappy disposable for the cruise.

Earlier this year, we had purchased a fleece blanket at a shop in MK one frosty morning. It came with a nifty little strap-type carrier that snapped onto the stroller. We left the blanket in the stroller and the strap on the stroller handle and went into a ride (forget which one) and when we got back, the carrier strap was gone (but the blanket was there).

 

[ntburns22]

At MNSSHP this past October we had unopened Cokes taken from the back of our rented stroller. We had parked it to go and ride Buzz and when we came out our 4 cokes were gone.

 

[!@#$%]

There were also several very nice strollers- some I know that were too expensive to be left behind on purpose- makes me wonder if some that were stollen were taken to a different park and then abandoned- so that somehow they get crossed in the lost and found claims...

Thats interesting. Steal a stroller from one park, so you dont have to rent one from another.
Then again, there may be a VERY logical explanation to that. OK, To a NEW GUEST of WDW, they might not know that the CM move your strollers when you enter the ride. At some rides they REALLY move them! Like to the other side of a building (MGM pops in my head). Its possible the person just ASSUMED someone stole it, and didnt ask a CM.
OR (Ive done this myself...) sometimes you leave your stroller, and board a ride, then you get a chance at a short line at the next, and before you know it, youve rode 5 or 6 rides, and it can get REALLT difficult to remember where you first parked it; ESPECIALLY if your new to WDW.
Theres actually a third possibility here... Since you can sometimes buy really nice strollers at yardsales for REALLY CHEAP, Its possible they just didnt want to carry them home! Maybe they didnt have room in their cars due to all the souvenirs. I know we pack our trunk REALLY tight. If you figure the cost of rental (its what... 8 bucks a day?) times say a 2 week stay (europeans take longer vacations) then a rental can add up to the cost of a very nice new stroller. We paid $5 for a LIKE NEW Eddie Bauer stroller worth about $400 at a yard sale. We took it 3 times before we found our $500 Peg Perego at a salvage store for $60. The PP was a much nicer stroller, and it wasnt like lugging a piano onto the buses like the EB was. I actually asked my wife if we could just leave the big thing behind and buy a unbrella stroller for the next trip. I HATED that Eddie Bauer stroller!!! It was SO huge. Definately the biggest stroller we have ever seen at WDW, and it was like pushing a barge through the park.

 

[Nanu57v]

Then again, there may be a VERY logical explanation to that. OK, To a NEW GUEST of WDW, they might not know that the CM move your strollers when you enter the ride. At some rides they REALLY move them! Like to the other side of a building (MGM pops in my head). Its possible the person just ASSUMED someone stole it, and didnt ask a CM.

Yes! I witnessed that. I was sitting on a bench outside a show at MGM and all these people kept walking past the stroller park and parking their strollers where (I think) it said not to park the strollers. Anyway, this one woman came out and started freaking out that her stroller was stolen. I told her (in my head I started with "you idiot") your stroller was just moved to the stroller park where its supposed to be.

 

[glass slipper girl]

on the stroller moving...my father considers it a form of entertainment. on one of our Christmas week trips he was not feeling really well and wasn't in a riding sort of mood. He wanted to be at the parks with the kids but didn't want to ride so he would sit outside and wait for us while DH, my mother and I took the boys on the rides. He loved being outside ones like It's a Small World or the Great Movie Ride where they move the strollers. He had the best time watching the reaction of people coming out looking for them. That was entertainment for him.

Sometimes it's a blessing to be easily amused.

 

[famofsix]

We went in April with a cheepee stroller so no-one wanted to steal it (it did belong to our condo place though). Nothing was stolen from us but we had a backpack with our stuff that we lugged around on the rides. I did see a lot of people who left valuables in the strollers. I just figured they are not Dissers.

I think what happens is people who are tired and possibly hungry or excited sometimes forget common sense (leaving stuff in strollers)...if we found anything we would turn it in no matter what.

 

[Zoie]

Our stroller was stolen but I don't THINK it was intentional. We exited It's a Small World and searched and searched for our stroller, and it was nowhere to be found. It was late evening, getting dark, and we were exhausted. It was my mom and I with my 2 y/o niece and we had to cross the PACKED park to meet up with the rest of the family, and we almost cried to think we not only had to carry that heavy child all the way across the park while already exhausted, but it was only the first day of the trip, and we had just bought that stroller the day before at Wal-Mart for use at the park (cheaper than renting all week!) so were now going to have to go out again and buy another one.

After much searching and asking a CM where it might have been moved to if they had moved it and searching there, and not finding it, we slowly began walking and as we passed Mickey's Philharmagic, I just HAPPENED to spot it parked there amongst many other strollers waiting for the show.

There were several of this particular stroller, it being a cheapie from Wal-Mart, around, and my niece had had some stickers earlier in the day and had reached up and put a couple inside the hood of the stroller, so that's how we knew for sure it was ours. So we "stole" it back.

I felt kind of bad for the people at Mickey's Philharmagic when they came out and discovered it missing, assuming of course that it WAS taken by mistake and THEIR stroller was still sitting at Small World, but after losing 45 minutes searching for the darn thing, we weren't going to wait around for the show to let out and see who came to claim it so we could let them know of the mix-up!

And maybe it was just plain stolen after all, you COULD see the stickers through the clear plastic roof of the stroller so those people SHOULD have realized it wasn't theirs when they took it...

We'll never know.

 

[grlzmom]

Well I find this depressing to even remember......

On our July '03 trip we were celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary. I had read on DIS about a scavenger hunt that giftsofalifetime.com had set up for someone and arranged one for my DH. It was to start at the wishing well outside the castle in the MK.

My DD's were 14, 12 and 4 then. We had a stroller of couse and both girls had pin trading books with them....that we had purchased at CR a few mornings before. They had spent hours organizing their pins and were really into the game of trading with CM's. The books were generally in the lower part of the stroller which was under an adults' supervision.

Unfortunately in the excitement of the moment we met up with our "fairy" and as the scavenger hunt began, one of my DD's put their "book" down on the bench as we walked toward the shop at the corner where the next clue was. She immediately remembered...and we all ran back.

In that 30 seconds the book was taken. We searched everywhere, filed reports everywhere, checked with Disney everywhere and called Disney 50 times after we returned from that trip. The book was never turned in.

There was in all probability $100 worth of pins in that book. Yeah, I knew it was our fault that the girls had them in the park, but as a family we just don't lose many things. We are very, very vigilant about our stuff and safety in general. And they wanted their pins with them to trade.

But while I was trying to do something special for my husband....someone else made a decision to do something not so nice. I wish I could tell you that the day wasn't spoiled. But my DD was so upset, she got my DH upset and it was really hard to get the magic back for the hunt. We all put on our very best Disney smiles and went forward....but it wasn't what could have been.

Boy, that was an expensive trip. I had to replace the book and a bunch of pins. And the hunt cost a pretty penny. I won't be doing that again anytime soon.

It just galls me, however, that whomever took that book didn't have the decency to turn it into a CM. Someone new exactly what they had found.

ps. Girlzmom Jeanne - I absolutely undersand how devastating that loss of the formula was. My middle DD had an absorption issue and was only 12 lbs at a year! We went thru every single formula there was until the pediatrician and GI doc settled on 32/32A (or something like that). We had to order it from the hospital pharmacy and if we didn't plan ahead we could be in a real bind if the pharmacy was out of stock. At the time ('02/03) it was $60/can and wasn't covered by insurance. We absolutely called it "liquid gold".

That is very sad about the pins

Our formula cost around the same (maybe 70 a can?) and with twins it was awful. I nursed them first four months but after that was too exhausted. Our twins were on different versions of "liquid gold" which made life even more complicated. 12 pounds at a year is TINY, hope your dd is ok now.

Cant believe I forgot to post our other disney 'theft' story. We went to pop century around grand opening (December 2003?). Early a.m., get up, some laundry to the laundry room, kids to the food court. Come back from the food court, and it is just me, dd12 (then 9), and the twins (celebrating their first birthdays). Dh has headed back to the rooms with the other kids already. We get trapped in the elevator. Long story short, couple hours later the elevator people have us out and a little longer til I have remembered the laundry (they had paramedics come check us out, we had to talk to the disney people, etc.). Twins were filthy because it got so hot and miserable in the elevator I finally stripped them to diapers only and the elevator floor was filthy, thus the twins were filthy (desperate times, desperate measures), and eventually, time to get back to the laundry room and it was all GONE. Disney wasnt too surprised about that either, apparently laundry snatching has happened before. In all fairness, I did abandon it for about five hours, but still, what kind of person actually STEALS someone elses laundry? Now I have become like the laundry police, guarding it, making sure it doesnt disappear

 

[Dusted]

I may be jinxing my self, but we have never had a problem, nor do we ever expect a problem. Short of purses and wallets, our family has always trusted fellow Disneyers to do the right thing.

Perhaps too trusting, but the magic does funny things to you...

 

[minniebeth]

At MNSSHP this past October we had unopened Cokes taken from the back of our rented stroller. We had parked it to go and ride Buzz and when we came out our 4 cokes were gone.

OOOOhh, that would make me sooo mad! I just love my Diet Cokes!

 

[tms295]

I've never had anything stolen in Disney... but I am always worried that it will happen.

Some of the items that have been posted as stolen... could it be possible that the children are doing it. Non intentially of course. Kinda like the family is loading into their stroller out side of small world and there little billy spots a mickey doll right next to him.... Wow! and off it goes with him in his stroller before Mom & Dad (who are busy watching out for those people that magically leap infront of the moving tank of a stroller) before they realize they are accomplises in the mickey doll snaching ring.

When my niece was 2 she would pick up and play with anything she saw... not knowing any better than someone else would miss it. We of course have taught her that if it is not her's Don't Touch IT! Now when she sees something she likes... she askes... in the cutest... most unresistable voice... Will you buy me one of them?

 

[solgent]

I guess that I was. It was purely unintentional, but we went to DL with a cheap umbrella stroller with a blue seat with cartoon animals and came back from DL with a cheap umbrella stroller with a blue seat with cartoon animals, except it was slightly different. There was a name in faded black letters on the footrest.

To the person whose stroller I now have, I am sorry and I sincerely hope that you took mine. I never had a moment of thinking "Where is the stroller?" so maybe we put them (or they were moved) right next to each other and we both grabbed the wrong one.

 

[lg3]

We had our stroller taken twice in one day! Thank goodness they were rental strollers that we got for free with our Disney Visa, and we were given free replacements. We had to park the stroller near the entrance to DL, as they don't allow strollers into DD. When we came back, it was gone. We had to get a replacement. Then after a few hours we had the replacement taken in DCA. At least it was near the end of the day and we were planning to head out anyway. Very frustrating though. The names are clearly marked!!!

I can't believe someone would actually move others' strollers on purpose. With little ones, the heat, crowds, etc. that is just sick IMO.