kurtisnelson wrote:I think the driver of Pink decided it would be to his benefit to announce himself. Since he is on leave and the NTSB has talked to him, it was only a matter of time until his name leaked to the media. It would take an extra-scummy media to jump on a guy who revealed his own identity.
Typically during a suspension pending investigation you can't say anything to anyone. I was suspended once. They take your name tag, ID, and Monorail key. Then they escort you off the property. Can't even tell your own roomie what happened. FYI it had nothing to do with Monorails or safety. I ran into a completely un-Disney security guard when I was trying to get her help regarding a guest who was clearly mentally handicapped and separated from his group.
But this is such a vastly different situation. I was really worried it would come down to something like this with what he's been through. I was in the station when he pulled in on finishing his checkout. He's an excellent driver. He did his checkout better than I did (I had to retake mine). Now the local media knowing that spreading BS news from nutty sources can get them national attention I am worried they'll still go after him and others.
Syndrome wrote:I saw an interview last night with a friend of the pink driver (and of course they had to make a big point of repeating the driver's name several times). The friend said the only information he had wa the driver's statement, but the interviewer was like a jackal smelling blood in trying to get him to say more. For God's sake, I can just imagine how terrible everyone involved feels. Do they need to get dragged through the mud too?
Maybe during the Casey trial, our high-class Orlando media will do a re-enactment of the murder using a kid's baby doll.
Poor guy. Unfortunately sometimes it's necessary when speculation is flying around to get one's side of the story out there. Major props for not going off statement.
Belgarion42 wrote:Can you point me to something that disproves the story? I have no doubt that it's false, but I'd like something I can reference when communicating to others.
The main thing is Denny's isn't across the street or anywhere near TTC. That alone shows the article and editing staff are too incompetent to have any real and legitimate information. Their credibility is shot with that. Something like that isn't a mere mistake. It's something which is easily verifiable and anyone with any sort of background knowledge of the context of a story should know major holes like that. The only place to get food there at 2 AM is the Hess Station around the corner. Even then it's just grab-n-go pizzas and maybe they'll have the sub line open.
Another is the editorial staff made this claim that they were the two in charge of the Monorail system. On what can they base that off? Relief coordinators and managers do go off duty and then grab something to eat when their scheduled shift is over. Now that the article's editors and source's credibility are shot, we can't even believe the information of on-duty Monorail CMs being there to be correct; let alone to make the extreme connection that they were THE TWO in charge of the system: manager on duty (Monorail 1) and Monorail Central. It was 4th of July holiday. Virtually every coordinator and manager would have been working that day.
Plus the article takes this purely on the word of this supposed source. Did they fact check it? Did they go to this Denny's across the street from the TTC to see if they could get someone to spill the beans of Monorail 1 and Central being there on duty? It's quite clear the answer is no.
