Stupid Guest Tricks

GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:My advice to you is take the tour!! They are great!! and fun as all Heck!!
(the down side is you will want to get one!!)

I already want one and I've never rode one before! There are so many things I want to do at WDW and I can't wait to get back there and the Segway tours are one of them.

I have no idea though when I'll be able to return though, hopefully not to long.

You should also see if there is a dealer near you. I have been told that they give demo rides, but then the sales pitches start!!

Surprisingly enough there is a dealer near here though it is in a part of town a ways from anywhere I ever go.

Riding a Segway at WDW sounds more fun anyway. Riding around the World Showcase before opening and around Fort Wilderness both sound very enjoyable. A lot more enjoyable than riding around a dealership.

GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:As to WDW and DLR doing away with the tours, that is just my opinion. BUT you will notice that some of the abusrd things that we deal with in life are the direct result of civil litigation, and companies response to them!

My advice to you is take the tour!! They are great!! and fun as all Heck!!
(the down side is you will want to get one!!)

I agree that many stupidities in life are the result of people suing for anything and everything.

But equating a supervised tour with modified equipment (the speed governor) can not be equated with free use of personal equipment. You can take a ride on a firetruck on Main St, but you can't bring your own firetruck to drive yourself around the parks. You can take a horseback trailride but you can't ride your own horse around the property. And without the "medical equipment" label it can not be counted as a required medical device. On the other hand if a person could get a physician's perscription that no currently available equipment can satisfy, it is possible to force such a declairation. But I don't see that possibility happening any time soon. IMHO

Randy

A Segway couldn't be a medical device anyway, as you are constantly making small, even minute movements with the feet. To call it a medical device is stupid.

I don't understand some people. Of course, the ones I don't understand are often that way by choice.

Randy B wrote:I agree that many stupidities in life are the result of people suing for anything and everything.

But equating a supervised tour with modified equipment (the speed governor) can not be equated with free use of personal equipment. You can take a ride on a firetruck on Main St, but you can't bring your own firetruck to drive yourself around the parks. You can take a horseback trailride but you can't ride your own horse around the property. And without the "medical equipment" label it can not be counted as a required medical device. On the other hand if a person could get a physician's perscription that no currently available equipment can satisfy, it is possible to force such a declairation. But I don't see that possibility happening any time soon. IMHO

Randy

You said it! And very well, I might add.
sues

Big Wallaby wrote:A Segway couldn't be a medical device anyway, as you are constantly making small, even minute movements with the feet. To call it a medical device is stupid.

I don't understand some people. Of course, the ones I don't understand are often that way by choice.

Most folks don't undrstand me...I am just a little kooky...
susi*kooky :sparky: and Kool *slicker

Randy B wrote:I agree that many stupidities in life are the result of people suing for anything and everything.

But equating a supervised tour with modified equipment (the speed governor) can not be equated with free use of personal equipment. You can take a ride on a firetruck on Main St, but you can't bring your own firetruck to drive yourself around the parks. You can take a horseback trailride but you can't ride your own horse around the property. And without the "medical equipment" label it can not be counted as a required medical device. On the other hand if a person could get a physician's perscription that no currently available equipment can satisfy, it is possible to force such a declairation. But I don't see that possibility happening any time soon. IMHO

Randy

Yeah, I am aware of all that, the point of my post is that those three "SG's" who are suing will ruin it for the rest of us, by making WDW management "rethink" the tour. Even if WDW wins (and I hope they do) I am sure that some lawyer will "suggest" that to avoid future problems, etc, etc,

Over the last 30 plus years I have seen silly decisions creep into the workplace in the form of "policy" I remember a number of years ago, I was assigned to internal affairs, and had to investigate a "sexual harrassment" case. The office manager would walk in every morning and say "good morning" to all the workers in his office. A newly transferred in worker, (who had a bone to pick, and thought she had gotten a raw deal on a promotion) file a complaint, and subsequent lawsuit for sexual harrassment. The gist was that the tone of his voice was suggestive! BAM new office policy, do not say good morning! (not kidding) Silly? Ya betcha! comment on the degraded civil lawsuit system, of course!

Still suprised at unrealistic reactions to SG type of lawsuits, Not anymore!
(hench my name!!)

Well, it looks like Disney has settled this lawsuit rather than fight it, and the settlement will effect all parks. Four-wheel standing ECV's are in your future, folks!

Story here, a little down the page.

Darn, now we will have SG's that are tearing around the park on four wheeled ECV's!! At least they did not allow the Segway's!