Warning: Theft at CBR

[kylara]

Actually, I have heard Disney CMs say theft happens. One was a Security CM. About two years ago my sister was ready to leave her camera out in plain sight in the car (just a cheap point and shoot 35mm), but a security CM going by at the time suggested that she lock it in the trunk because while my sister doesn't think it is worth that much, someone else might. She took his advice.

Another time was when I found a nice camera bag with a brand new 33mm Nikon and about 3 different lenses (I know one was telephoto and one was wide angle but couldn't figure out the third). I mean this camera was beautiful and probably worth about $1000 dollars or more. It was just left on the walkway right outside the fast food eatery that is between Main St. and Tomorrow Land and it was right before the fireworks. When I took it to the CM in the resturant, she said that the people were lucky that I was honest and turning it in...she said that often people won't be...they'll take it home for themselves. She actually stated that they have a lot of theft of lost items.

 

[Kallison]

Considering the amount of people who vacation at Disney from all parts of the country and world nobody should be shocked that theft occurs. I'm sorry for your loss. We are always extra vigilant with our valuables, but I can understand how it can happen. We have only lost non-valuables such as autograph book at Disney or baseball hats and have always been lucky to find everything in Lost and Found more than once. I don't think there is any way that Disney could have prevented this, although a little sympathy would have been nice.

 

[pooh6890]

I have always felt the same thing about the strollers. I never took my kids to DW until they were old enough to walk around themselves. All those strollers just sitting there with so many personal belongings in there. I had my mickey antenna thingie stolen off my car a few weeks ago. I think what bothers me so much about it is the fact that person likes Disney too and would have the nerve to steal it. I guess we feel that Disney is special and Disney People are special too. NOT! Also, I live in Miami so what did I expect? There is theft and stealing everywhere so you have to expect it everywhere I guess. Sad, but true.

 

[manhattan]

On one of my first trips to Disney at CBR we arrived early so we headed to the pool and waited until check in time. I had placed my rings on my watch and placed it on my hip bag. Upon check in I took off my hig bag and heard my rings fall to the floor and I picked them up, but was busy trying to listen the CM who was checking us in. Upon entering our hotel room I noticed that my watch had also fallen. I immediately called the front desk and mentioned that I just lost my watch at check in and had noticed the family right after us was acting very weird (they actually accidently bumped into me) and asked if it was at all possible to see if one of their children had picked up my watch. They said they could not do that, but if they voluntarily turned it in they would notify me. Needless to say, I never saw the watch again- which was really depressing since it had been a birthday gift from my husband and was less than 2 months old.

After thinking about it, I couldn't believe that someone would actually see someone dropping something and instead of mentioning it to the person, they would just take it for themselves, and to do it in front of their children!!

Well I have been more cautious ever since and I don't judge people by their cover (I myself am a minority and am quite used to being looked at strangely or followed around by security) but it seems that we all learn the hard way to look at everyone around us!

 

[Kim&Chris]

This stuff happens everywhere, but as a previous poster stated, Disney is definitely a target for thieves.

Let's be honest.....we go there normally with lots of cash, expensive cameras, and a carefree attitude. Thieves thrive on that stuff!

I was in one of the clubs at Pleasure Island one night & we were dancing and having a great time. One of my favorite songs started, so we went to the dancefloor. I took my purse and dropped it next to where we were dancing, as alot of women do. One of my friends nudged my arm and pointed to a guy who was standing, all alone, staring at the various purses on the dance floor. There was no doubt he was casing us out to see who's purse he could grab & run with. I quickly grabbed my purse and the guy disappeared. Talk about a scary situation! I had alot of cash in my wallet, as well as a Canon 35 mm camera!

From that day on, I learned a big lesson. I never leave anything unattended while I'm at Disney (or anywhere else, for that matter!).

 

[Katy]

I was at the World in April and about a week after we returned home I received an envelope from Disney. Inside was a letter stating that someone had found my "annual pass" (I didn't even know I had lost it" and turned it in. Disney sent it to me right away. Most people are honest but we can never let our guard down anywhere, especially at places like Disney where people tend to have a lot of valuables and cash and are very distracted by all that's going on around them. I believe that Disney does the best that they can or else they would run the risk of having a bad reputation.

 

[kidzmom3]

We had left some things on our stroller at epcot while we were in the American Adventure. Including passports of the world that the kids had been doing. When we came out, our stroller was gone. We notified an extremely helpful cm who not only got us another stroller (we didn't have to go get it) but she also asked for our room number and said she would report the loss. Well, when we got back to our room, there were 3 fully filled out passports with stamps etc.. 3 mickey lollypops and 3 pins. What a wonderful young lady she was. Her note said that she felt bad that the kids had to experience theft at WDW and she wanted to do whatever she could to make up for it. So there are caring cm's out there and if you see Jennifer, from Virgina at the American Adventure, be sure to tell her what a great gal she is.

 

[Magic2000]

I just don't understand why somebody would deliberately take something that wasn't theirs.
Last summer, we were at the Grand Floridian (I was waiting for my little girl to finish up at the Alice in Wonderland Tea Party). Anyway, I noticed a bag sitting on the sofa and no one was around. I sat there for about 10 or 15 minutes and still no one came for the bag. I brought it to the front desk and she looked to see if there was anything with a name or anything in the bag. It looked like it was just kids extra t-shirts. She offered to have me fill out a form for turning the bag in, and if it was not claimed, then it could be turned over to me.
I accidently left my camera on top of the stroller one time when we went in for a ride, and thankfully, it was still there when we returned. It wasn't an expensive camera, but still, it had some very valuable pictures of my girls with the characters!!!
Hope your stuff turns up!

 

[sgtpet]

We should all boycot WDW

 

[JLS]

I agree with what Katy said that "most people are honest." But its a numbers game... if there are, lets say, 50,000 people at WDW on a particular day (this number may be far off, I'm just using it as an example), even if 90% of the people are honest, that would still leave 500 people walking around just waiting for you to take your eyes off of your bag for a split second.

Of COURSE thieves target WDW because they know people there are walking around with a lot of vacation money - way more money in most cases than the average person walking around a city street would be carrying. People who think that WDW property isn't part of the "real world" as far as crime is concerned are just kidding themselves. But I don't think this reflects anything bad about WDW itself - as others have pointed out, Disney CMs cannot be responsible for the criminal intent of some guests, or for people's decision (or mistake) to leave personal belongings unattended. We can all just hope to find a nice helpful and sympathetic person if we are in such a situation.

Sorry to hear about your vacation downer.

 

[SeaSpray]

Theft can AND does happen anywhere and everywhere.

I am truly sorry that someone took your bag with your video camera and other items in it.

However, when I opened this thread, I thought you were going to say something was stolen from your room at CBR. Losing a bag on a bus is not the same as having a theft AT a resort. The title of this post gave me the wrong impression!

 

[epcotfan]

I have to agree with Seaspray. I was under a different impression when I first opened the thread. I thought something had been stolen from the in room safe (or something along those lines). I am sorry to hear you misplaced your things. Hopefully they will turn up.