Stupid Guest Tricks

Same thing happened several times when I was working at the Astro Orbitor. Some kid would play around with our sliding gates get their knees stuck in between the bars. They would be frantically be crying their heads off trying to get it out. I think one of those times we had to call maintenance down to get the poor child out.

DLRFantasmic!Dan wrote:Same thing happened several times when I was working at the Astro Orbitor. Some kid would play around with our sliding gates get their knees stuck in between the bars. They would be frantically be crying their heads off trying to get it out. I think one of those times we had to call maintenance down to get the poor child out.

There's a good Jaws of Life story somewhere in there.
"Sorry lady,but we certainly cut the gate now could we?"

BRWombat wrote:Yes, awesome!

You first. :D:

Ok, I'll go looking in my boxes , shouldn't be too hard , I took LOTS of embarassing photos!

CujoSR wrote:"I'll show you mine if you show me yours?"
What are we children?

Yes, of course. This surprises you??? :D:

I thought that was one of the unwritten rules!

Cheshire Figment wrote:Quite a few years ago we were waiting for the train at the Frontierland station (WDW) and Judy managed to slide her knee in between two of the vertical 4x4 posts which made up the railing and she found she could not get it back out.

I tried manipulating her leg, and we asked the CM on the platform to assist also. We could not figure how she had done it, but we could not get her leg out from between the posts no matter what we did.

Finally the CM called the Rescue Squad and they came up to the station with a "Jaws of Life" and were able to separate the posts and we got her leg out.

We always wondered what maintenance felt when they had to put the fence back together.

I can assure you that they thought, "Bother, not *again*!"

Between Frontierland and Toontown stations, we'd average two knees/week.

At Frontierland, we used to have some old metal stanchion posts. A few moments with one of those and we wouldn't need to call for an Alpha run.

This stopped when Management asked Imagineering to come up with a safer fencing design. They refused without a budget allocation, and Main Street couldn't get an allocation for another department.

So.... the new rule was to call Reedy Creek for *every* stuck knee. No suntan lotion, no breaker bars, just keep the guest calm and ask them to wait. Thinking was, Disney gets charged for each Alpha run, and getting those bills rolling in would convince the Powers That Be to fund the safety improvement.

Three years later they replaced the Toontown Station fencing.... with new fencing.... with the exact same spacing. <sigh>

Zazu wrote:Three years later they replaced the Toontown Station fencing.... with new fencing.... with the exact same spacing. <sigh>

Should that really surprise you? Changing the spacing could solve the problem depending on what they changed it to, and it would take years of intense mathematical calculations to find the perfect spacing so that people can't go through and knees can't get stuck. Why spend the money for all of that when just changing the fencing and using the same spacing is cheaper and also has a chance of solving the problem?

Had to deal with a couple of those at Knott's--one at the small train in Camp Snoopy, another at the Balloon Race, also in Camp Snoopy. Both times we managed to get them out without calling for assistance. Of course, as slow as they were, kid probably would've ended up breaking the fence down themselves before they got there.

And I agree--so easy to fix, but management doesn't see it that way. The only time I ever managed to get a fence issue fixed was after a 3 year old wiggled away from his mom, who was yakking with another woman in line at the Charlie Brown Speedway. The kid saw the cars moving, decided he didn't want to wait for his turn, went between the fence posts of the queue fence, ran around behind the backdrop, and tried to climb in through the fence. I was next door at Huff 'N' Puff, saw what was happening and called the ride operator at Speedway. She hit E-Stop just in time. It took a couple of minutes of asking people in queue whose kid he was before the mom realized her kid wasn't with her anymore. Then, after managment was notified, they actually put a mesh fence around the queue fence as well as the perimeter fence. I nearly died of shock--management actually corrected a hazard!

Lasolimu wrote:Should that really surprise you?

After ten years with the Mouse, very very little still surprises me. However, I can still be disappointed.

Disneymom asked me to post this.



Wombat is suppose to show her his.