mapo wrote:Thanks for the beer...I feel better already.
I am greatly relieved to see that those "lyrics" are from a song and not something the poster was saying.
I thought that might be the case which is why I posted the way I did. I'm a long time fan of Steely Dan so I recognised the lyrics Hobie posted right away and responded with the name of the song. I have to admit, though, not my favorite Steely Dan tune.
If you are not aware, we just had WESH 2 news do a feature on 9/11 saying how all the local theme parks could have better security. Of course, Disney was singled out with the "they do not even list that you cannot bring weapons?" Oh and we have some security professional stating that she thinks we should have armed security in the park for response. Seriously???
This all comes on the heels of a SG who posted a video on You Tube stating that a security manager had over stepped his authority and why can't I bring in certain objects. He had parachute cord, tools, and instruction manual in his bag. As his own You Tube videos demonstrate, you can make numerous weapons from these things.
I hadn't seen either of those but I'm not surprised. Stories and videos like that attract attention because they play on people's fears. We, as a species, don't seem to be very good at understanding risk. Terrorist attacks are horrific in part because they are rare. The things really likely to kill us on vacation don't even enter into most people's awareness. How many people have been injured or died in the Orlando area since 2001 as a result of car accidents? Cancer? Other health conditions? And then terrorists? Even places where they use metal detectors and severly limit what you can carry can't ensure that a determined terrorist couldn't cause harm. If Disney went full on defensive the quality of vacations would suffer hugely and to what real benefit?
I, for one, am confident they do what is reasonable, and as I said earlier in the post, I assume they do a lot more than what is visible. Violence in the parks would hurt the bottom line. No matter how you slice it, it's in Disney's interest to have good, solid security without being an armed camp. I would not feel safer if there were a bunch of armed responders there. Police on call, sure, but lots of armed people on stand by? Not really. Lots of people and lots of guns makes for chaos an unintended consequences. I'm happy to have the number limited to trained professionals in small quantities.
As for not listing that weapons are unwelcome, really? :notallthe Sometimes I think there has been a zombie apocolypse I didn't hear about and all the brains have been eaten.