PapaMouse wrote:Yes Rules are Rules. but like I said, there is a difference in up holding the rules and being a jerk.
Very true. One should follow the safety rules without being a jerk about it. But one *must* follow the safety rules -- it's really not an option.
IMO (If I were a CM) the absolute limit would be 1 inch is too short.
Free advice: Don't every try to hire on or transfer into attractions. If I, or any other trainer or manager in their right mind hears you say something like that, you'll be disqualified from attractions with height limits faster than you can say "hockey stick".
Trust me on this one. I personally helped one CPer spend the balance of their semester at the turnstiles because they lacked the proper attitude about attraction safety.
Height is kinda a vague way to determine safety anyways.
Best we've found in 50 years of looking. Got any suggestions of what else we might try?
When that lap bar comes down. 1/8th of an inch is not going to matter.
*Some* 1/8th inch is going to matter. Maybe not the first one, but as you permit shorter and shorter guests to board, one of them is going to be injured or killed. The Company has made a conscious decision about how big the safety margin should be. I don't have enough data to know how much farther it's safe to go, and neither do you.
But if the rule is going to be so strictly enforced, then why not have a system where the child is measured upon entry and given a wrist band indicating they are too short.
We tried that. It didn't work. Too many SGs peeling the wristbands off the tall kids and putting them on the short ones.
I say this because I remember a time when i was a kid. I wanted to ride BTM. My dad took me to the CM at the first check point. I stood there and the CM held up the little measuring stick thing. I was too short.
Yeah, I remember growing up near Disneyland, and checking my height against the posts outside Autopia year after year until I was finally tall enough to ride alone. That was a big day, and I don't think it hurt me to wait for it.
We all know that the ground level is different around the park. and at BTM it has an incline, so if the CM put the stick kinda up above the person the stick will be higher and not give a correct measurement. So Maybe Disney needs to have a height check point thats the same. Like maybe have a plat form for the guest to stand on and get measured....
Yup, we've got those in steep places. The standby entrance to Splash Mountain, for instance.
Seriously though, what I said about about not coming to work here with your present attitude about safety rules? I meant that. :zazu:
