For Your Safety

IndyandMarion · Post by **IndyandMarion** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:28 pm

Ok, so I was at Stand By entrance at Rock n Roller Coaster yesterday (Why? Because my life was a rich full f'n oyster yesterday) when a woman comes up and goes into the line. But noticing that her daughter is way under the height requirement (48 inches...the girl was about two-three inches under that), I stopped the two and explained why they couldn't go in.

"Well we've gone in three times today already and no one said anything"

Me-Ok, well apparently someone wasnt doing their job. For the safety of YOUR child, I cannot allow her inside.

"But we've gone through-"

Me-Madam that's fine. But that was then. I am here at this spot right now and for the safety of your child I cannot allow you inside this building with her. (And yes, I did cut her off)

WHATEVER (And so she stormed off)

Later on that day

"Hey man can you get a manager down here to stand by, we have a height situation"

(I was at launch base at the time) Let me guess, medium to heavey set woman, daughter wearing an orange and white shirt?

"Yeah"

Ill get someone down there ASAP (Meanwhile I heard the woman SCREAMING over my buddie down at stand by )"Dude, Im sorry man, I had to deal with her before")

So later over the radio I hear a call go to guest relations talking about the situation. Apparently it was solved....yeah right.

Later that night I glance over at the monitor at merge as Im walking towards the stand by area and notice that the woman and her daughter have gotten inside. So I snatch the phone and get a hold of launch base and litterally say "THERE IS A WOMAN WITH A DAUGHTER WEARING A ORANGE AND WHITE SHIRT GOING INTO STUDIO C, GET THEM OUT OF THIS BUILDING NOW!"

So I casually walk towards the exit of the gift shop and just wait for the two to be escourted out...when they do, I just glance over at them and smile....
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This happened a few weeks ago (Forgot if I mentioned this in another post so...) On just a "For the love of God" line, we had a bit of a back up inside the Studio C area, so I had to stop the merge line for a bit. In stand by there is a girl who was born with like three silver spoons in her mouth. When from her mouth I heard the dumbest lines EVER.
"I hate Roller coasters, I hate Aerosmith and I hate standing in line"

This guy in the fast pass line and I exchange looks and he laughs, from my spot I lean over and say "So what part of Rock n ROLLER COASTER STARRING AEROSMITH didn't you really get there sweetheart?"

Course the guy started busting a gut and even the MOTHER had to hold back her laughter.
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Speaking of funny, I heard the greatest line ever.
Woman was getting off the coaster today and she said (Jokingly) Oh look, another gift shop. When her husband said "What are you talking about, Disney is nothing but a giant gift shop with a bunch of rides built around them

coldfire409 · Post by **coldfire409** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:12 pm

Yesterday when I was in Ganster I saw this lady in the back row of the vechile that decided it was necessary to stand up on the ride. My coordinator decided to say something to this lady. Then when we went into the next scene she just decided to do it again, so I e-stopped the ride. She lost her footing. Needless to say she sat down durring the entire ride.

Also Indy on another note John who was sunset 3 a couple of days ago said that I should do your height situations when I was gangster and bandit because I'm armed and the guest may listen.

GMC · Post by **GMC** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:16 pm

reminds me of the other day at indy, some girl, probly 43 inches,snuck in the line behind by her mother (probly had been pulling shit like that all day, at other attractions.) Soo the other guy happened to turn around at right about the same time she was sneaking, and puled her out of the line, we measured her and she was at least 3 inches too short, so mom freaks out immedaitly (i can only assume that she's embarassed about being caught cheeting.) "mommy why can't i go on"
"because the MEAN MEN won't let you on 'cause you're a FRACTION OF A MILIMETER too short" so it yell back, MORE Like three inches but you'll grow fast! as mom is draggin her away at the speed of angry. so her party was like what the hell is she doing, and runs off after her.

all i can think is yeah, do you know how many people today i sent away b/c thier kid really was a fraction of a milimeter too short, that DIDN'T complain? yeah get ovre it, say 100 dollars to go to a park with you're daughter where she meets the height for pretty much any other attraction, or, the hospital bill worth thousands, b/c you insisted your kid go on a ride not designed to keep her safe....

IndyandMarion · Post by **IndyandMarion** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 4:09 pm

Tee. Height situations are about to get a lot more fun...Why?

Well because in any attraction that has a height requirement, the rider must be over 7 or 54 inches tall to ride by themselves...something like that. Its going universal at WDW (Magic Kingdom was the lab rat), not sure about DL....but in lamence terms, things are about to get a lot worse for those situations.

GMC · Post by **GMC** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 4:34 pm

IndyandMarion wrote:Tee. Height situations are about to get a lot more fun...Why?

Well because in any attraction that has a height requirement, the rider must be over 7 or 54 inches tall to ride by themselves...something like that. Its going universal at WDW (Magic Kingdom was the lab rat), not sure about DL....but in lamence terms, things are about to get a lot worse for those situations.

we Have that at steam trains, and we're probly going to go park wide with it, i thought we had it at indy, but, i don't see any markers so if we do i don't have any way of telling. so i figure if they're 7 and 46 inches, they're good to go.

lady ulrike · Post by **lady ulrike** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 5:49 pm

Yeah, I think it's going park wide, if it's not already. It might not be at Indy, cause there's probably very few, if any six year olds tall enough for Indy.

IndyandMarion · Post by **IndyandMarion** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:19 pm

Ok. So, Im at FP distribution but the situation was down at merge. The girl at Standby had to go up and help so I took over for her for a bit. She comes back and says "Im not dealing with that"

So I walk up there and see a father yelling at the girl at merge (Different one). Ok, lemmie tell you something, you can yell at a female, but not while I'm around. Needless to say I gave the "Ill handle it" look to her and jumped in.

"SIR! I'll ask that you not yell at her! What is the problem?"

"They wont let her on the ride" (Girl is OBVIOUSLY under the height requirement, and even a person with the IQ of a gerbil could see this).

"She doesnt meet the height requirement, sir"

"No one check her at any other ride" (Note, RRC is the highest height requirement at the resort at 48 inches).

"We can't let her on sir"

"That's not acceptable, I want her on this ride"

*Sigh* "Go ahead and call C1" (And I began to walk away, find out like a min later C1 cant get there right away, perfect).

Then I over hear the guy say "Im going to stand here for one hour and watch you check every person that comes through here."

(Ok, so I lost my cool with this asshole at this point). NO will not! We have a job to do and you are keeping us from doing it! Ruin the magic for you? I dont care. But you are about two seconds away from me calling 1990! And you dont want that to happen, ecspecally from me! Now please leave!

I walked off back to my spot and found later the guy had just stormed off.

Look I understand a few situations, but one yelling at a female around me is one way to get a trip to the ER (And Im not joking around on that comment) and two the way the guy was (Which words cant express) acting, I just did what I did when I taught school, intimidation, which I am very good at.

Stduck · Post by **Stduck** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 9:56 am

Makes me so glad I don't work a ride with a hieght requirement. Only one attration in my area has a hieght requirement (Splash). But there is the unspoken 54" rule at Disneyland. I've had to prevent various small children from riding Pooh because A. They were not 54" tall or 7 years of age or B. They weren't accompanied by a 16 year old or older. Same applies at Mansion but usually small children don't go there by themselves.

DLRFantasmic!Dan · Post by **DLRFantasmic!Dan** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 11:17 am

Stduck wrote:Makes me so glad I don't work a ride with a hieght requirement. Only one attration in my area has a hieght requirement (Splash). But there is the unspoken 54" rule at Disneyland. I've had to prevent various small children from riding Pooh because A. They were not 54" tall or 7 years of age or B. They weren't accompanied by a 16 year old or older. Same applies at Mansion but usually small children don't go there by themselves.

Same ruls apply for Astro Orbitor. Children have to be at least 7 to go by themselves, or must be accompanied by someone 16 years of age or older or someone 54" tall or taller. Why?? I do not know, I just work here. I don't make the rules, I follow them. One question I have is why someone 16 years of age and older?

CrystalSkull · Post by **CrystalSkull** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 11:11 pm

Well they assume that height is relative to their age and in most cases they're right. They want small children accompanied by someone at least somewhat responsible. You know to keep them from undoing their seatbelt and standing up or something like that.