SGT Prevented....I Hope!

[ktulu]

On Thursday, I went to DL and DCA, so naturally I went on Pirates. The lady next to me had a 2 month old baby on her lap. I was convinced the child would go ballistic after the TWO DROPS or the gunfire/canons or the darkness, etc.

The kid ended up falling asleep, I think, but I still don't think that a baby should go on that ride.

2 month old baby in a carrier maybe, like one that is strapped to the chest. Lap, probably not. Besides, who wants to carry a 2 month old around without some sort of assistance while in line? I know my 7 week old sleeps through quite a bit, just like her sister. We were walking through Fantasyland with daughter #1 during the fireworks, she was 1 at the time. She slept through it all. BTW, she has been riding pirates since she was 1, she will look at us and go "Don't be cheeeeeken!" She'll be 3 this month :D:

[kurtisnelson]

Second.. Kilimanjaro Safari will allow car seats in the passenger area aslong as it is accompanied by an adult.

No car seats up front? Really?

[felinefan]

If you think it's bad trying to keep too short kids from riding, try getting rid of teens/adults who are too tall to ride. I swear the height requirement for Charlie Brown Speedway at Knott's was devised in Hell. I had more problems trying to tell people only those who were taller than the 48" line and shorter than the 54" line (I think) can ride alone, shorter than the 48" line must ride with 54" or taller, and taller than 54" must ride with someone under 48". No more than two people per car (yes, I had people try to stuff more than than in), and shorter person must sit on the driver's side (fun telling somebody from Britain that), taller person on the passenger side.

And of course you have the teens trying to get on Huff 'N' Puff (shorter than 52" to ride)--you get the idea. I do not miss working in Camp Snoopy at all. Then on Red Baron (between 36' and 52" to ride, I think) , I'd get adults who'd hop into the planes and wonder why they were being laughed at by the other guests.

I had parents trying to put babies on Red Baron, or babies unable to sit up by themselves on Huff 'N' Puff, and once a woman with a sling across her body, whom I seated in a car at Speedway turned out to have a baby in the sling (she was riding with her little boy).

What I wanna know is, whatever happened to common sense????

[lady ulrike]

Speaking of children in dangerous conditions...

On Thursday, I went to DL and DCA, so naturally I went on Pirates. The lady next to me had a 2 month old baby on her lap. I was convinced the child would go ballistic after the TWO DROPS or the gunfire/canons or the darkness, etc.

I took my daughter on Pirates for the first time when she was about 4 weeks old. She's never had a problem with it, not with the drops or anything. The only time she's ever even fussed on the attraction was in the darker parts with nothing to see. I still swear it wasn't the dark that had her worried but that there was nothing to see.

[Terrytunes]

Yes, speaking of children in dangerous conditions:

Last Saturday my sister and I were getting on the tram from Mickey N Friends parking structure, I went up the ramp to load my ECV, and a family with two small children in strollers, both children asleep, came up the ramp after me. The CM kindly told the SG parents that both children would have to come out of the strollers in order to enter the tram. The father then had this bewildered look on his face and said, get this, "But they are both asleep, and my son is on all kinds of morphine."
The first thing that went through my head, but didn't come out of my lips was, "Why are you bringing a child to the park on morphine?!!!" Then the second thing that went through my head was, "Idiot! How would you feel if your child, stroller and all, went flying out of the Disney tram?"
Morphine? Really? Idiot parents!
TT

[vixen101485]

WOW! That last one is just beyond words. :shaker:

[mechurchlady]

Actually parents do bring children to parks when the kid is on morphine. Maybe the kid is dying or this is a Make A Wish trip.

People do not realize the danger of a stroller on a tram, the laws involved or understand that the science behind a child flying out of mom's arms or a stroller. A film for a driving class said to hold a watermelon or other heavy object then have the driver slam on their brakes. They do not understand, plain and simple.

[vixen101485]

I was shocked more for the fact that, Why on earth would you share that information. No one's business what drug your kid needs to survive. Nor do most ppl care. Just a simple, "he is asleep" would suffice. But regardless, take your kid out of the stroller.

[Terrytunes]

Actually parents do bring children to parks when the kid is on morphine. Maybe the kid is dying or this is a Make A Wish trip.

Oh, right, I never thought of that. The child looked heathly, but he did have a cast on his arm. Anyway, the tram took off without them. I don't know what happened after we left.

TT

[Goofyernmost]

Actually parents do bring children to parks when the kid is on morphine. Maybe the kid is dying or this is a Make A Wish trip.

If the child were on morphine and therefore sleeping then who is the "make a wish" for? If he had a cast then he must have had an injury of some sort. It seems pretty weird that you would bring a child that was having that much pain to a theme park, doesn't it?

I guess I don't know the whole story so I will refrain from further comment, but, something isn't adding up. There must be a piece of the puzzle missing.