Stupid Guest Tricks

I would not mind bringing a teeny, tiny wittle derringer! They are *cute* guns! :p:
susi*a very good aim with a gun*slicker

mechurchlady wrote:http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2007 ... isney.html

Did you see the other story?

Some Pop Warner kids softball teams got into a fight in an arcade. Disney booted the Hawaii team including mothers who were chaperoning. There were babies and kids under the age of 3 who were forced to leave their bed in the middle of the night. Can you imagine having to pack your bags and leave a hotel in the middle of the night and having infants and taoddlers.

That's interesting. Probably not the best idea but maybe their kids shouldn't get into fights...just my .02.

I think that it's about time that Disney grew a pair.

Sorry that you got woke up in the middle of the night, but where were you, the chaperones, at the time of the fight. If you were doing your job, then the fight would not have happened and you would not have to wake sleeping Jr to leave.

Next time, read the fine print.

Technically speaking, Florida law says nothing about Disney being off limits to concealed weapon permit holders. However, Disney does have the ability to ask you to leave if you are found with a weapon that you have a permit to carry, refusing to leave would be considered armed tresspassing.

I personally hold a carry permit, and have been through pretty much every theme park in Florida while armed, and I'm far from the only one. Responsible permit holders take the concealed part of the permit seriously. For the most part they aren't gun waving, macho yahoos. (Yes, there are those out there)

Why carry at Disney? Well, I carry everywhere I go (that is legal for carry). You don't ever expect that you will need to use your weapon. But, as the saying goes, if you ever do need to use a weapon, you are going to need it really bad, really fast. I shouldn't need to carry at Disney, just as I shouldn't need to carry while shopping at the mall - but look how that has turned out recently. The sad reality of our world is that there are nuts out there who would love to do nothing more than get their names in the paper for going on a shooting rampage on Main Street USA. Scary but true.

Just so you think I'm not one of those "gun nuts"... For the record I am married with 3 kids, I don't belong to the NRA, have never been hunting, and am I fairly liberal Democrat.

The kids baseball team fight dosn't really say who was fighting, I understand the policy, but did they kick out the teams for two or three kids fighting, or was it more than that?

(also where the heck would you go, or could you go, in the middle of the night at Orlando?)

ralanprod wrote:Just so you think I'm not one of those "gun nuts"...

Gotta ask, why do you really carry a gun? Have you ever been close to a high school/mall/main street shooting? They get lots a press but, in reality, are very few and far between. Have you ever received combat training? There's a big gap between talking about facing someone down with a gun and actually doing it.

Have you ever thought about what would happen if you got into a shoot out with someone out to do bad, spotted by the police as someone with a gun, and shot by them? In the heat of the moment there are very few questions asked and a lot of rounds expended.

Just wondering.

We just had two more shootings here in Colorado, 5 people dead including the shooter who was shot by a female security guard at the New Life Church in the Springs., shot to death by a crazy at two different religious buildings. :( It made national news yesterday. Of course the wild west has a LOT of guns! And a LOT of crazies!
susi

susislicker wrote:We just had two more shootings here in Colorado, 5 people dead including the shooter who was shot by a female security guard at the New Life Church in the Springs., shot to death by a crazy at two different religious buildings. :( It made national news yesterday. Of course the wild west has a LOT of guns! And a LOT of crazies!
susi

True, but you are east of us! (wild east?)

THAT'S the problem, you just never know what will set someone off. My stepfather actually carries a gun when he walks the dog in his senior community......Don't want to be around when some dumb dog comes charging out at him. He also went out waving his gun when his neighbor's Subaru was being stolen....no shots fired, but who wants to get in a gunfight over a Subaru?
I would be afraid the SG would get mad at someone for cutting in line in front of her....BLAM!

Big Wallaby wrote:Oh, those mini cheerleaders. We had some serious problems with them on the buses at DTD. No guns, but some fighting... and it wasn't the kids.

We had major problems at DLH with those little future golddiggers. Them and DECA, a co-ed business fraternity. The Showstoppers girls (aka the FGA, Future Golddiggers of America) would change their clothes in service elevators, make prank calls, order room service and then flash the room service guys when they brought the order up, and just outright act like wanna Britney Spears/Paris Hilton/Lindsay Lohan. And the parents didn't do a damn thing about it; they just encouraged it. I'd have hated to be around that stupid Libby Lu store when those future golddiggers were around. The room service guys got revenge on them by taking the room service order back downstairs but still charging the room for it (and room service is not cheap!). I was always on my toes with them and advised male CMs I was friends with to do the same, because one bad move or comment and I knew that one of them would have had me/us branded as pedophiles. Moral of the story: Just because chaperones are around doesn't mean the kids act responsibly *coughgradnitecough*, and it sucks that all have to be punished but that's just the way the world works.

As for DECA, they were just a bunch of rowdy college students who had a "business conference" at the hotel. Then at night they had loud parties and threw beer bottles off their balconies. I heard FD comped quite a few rooms to guests who (rightfully so) complained about their noise. One night as I was walking to my car I ran into a security guard who was stationed outside Bonita Tower solely to watch for beer bottles being thrown from rooms. I heard they weren't invited back the next year.