Stupid Guest Tricks

I am a entertainment host. I get to walk around the park and make sure the characters don't get their butts kicked... :throw: If there is anywhere in the park that is just rife with stupid guest tricks, it's Ariel's Grotto (Now Tritons Gardens). I've had the most complaints come to me from that area than anywhere else in the park. One of my favorite stupid guest tricks is the kid and the ECV. One day while closing the line for the Grotto I heard the ever familiar sound of the ECV back-up tone. I know that the guests have a bad habit of ignoring this warning so I turned around to see if I needed to yell at anyone to get out of the way. What I expected to see was an older guest struggling to back into a possition where they could safely continue forward down the hill. Instead I spotted an 11 year old boy backing into the middle of the photo area. For a moment I was tempted to go off on him without asking what was going on. Then I thought better of it. Maybe he was trying to get the cart into a better position for his elderly grandmother. I know I know, nobody is supposed to drive the ECV's except those they are issued to...but hey I'll let it go. He's not causing any trouble...yet. The next thing I know he's driving around in circles honking at other guests and telling them to get out of his way. Well that was it.

Excuse me! What do you think you're doing? One, that isn't a toy and two, you are not old enough to be driving it anyway. Park it.

The kid rolled his eyes at me and his grandmother told him to get off and I walked away thinking it was done.
After we closed up the location I grabbed my things and made my way back to the head room. But before I left I walked by the place where the boy was. He was still sitting in the ECV but he wasn't driving it anymore. His mother was standing beside him and his grandmother seemed to be telling her what had happened because the mom looked like she wanted to smack the kid upside the head. I smiled and nodded at the gradmother and continued on my way. Just as I was rounding the corner I heard the ECV back-up tone again. I paused, there was no way the kid was doing it again...but I'd better check. I looked back and there he was backing up into the photo area again!

I know I just told you not to drive that thing. You're too young and you were being rude to the other guests. I don't want to see you on this again.

His mom took the keys from him and smacked him up side the head.

every CM would be hitting that button as many times as possbile. but hey cool.

Weeble wrote:Just an idea, I don't know about the cost/feasability/staffing of such a project.

Whatever the cost, it would be worth it!!!

I rent those ECVs to guests, and given some of the losers that rent them i'd be hitting that button a lot.

Wow. 121 pages views for this topic. Wow.

Weeble wrote:They should install a master remote button on those things. It would be activated by any cast member, sort of an emergency switch. When triggered, the ecv would hook up to GPS and determine its location. Once its current location is determined a titanium seat belt locks into place trapping the offending party. The ECV then calculates the shortest route to the rivers of america. Once the ECV is 100 feet from the ROA a proximity sensor will activate the natural gas canister under the seat and the battery will spark causing the cart to become engulfed in flames. This also triggers loudspeakers in the area to start playing led zeppelin's black dog at 110 decibels. A ramp will lift at the edge of ROA and the cart will then receive a nitro boost sending the ECV into the ROA, on fire, at 120 mph while Black Dog plays in the background.

Just an idea, I don't know about the cost/feasability/staffing of such a project.

:pbjtime:

PS welcome to SGT :)

lol haha hahaha

Weeble wrote:They should install a master remote button on those things. It would be activated by any cast member, sort of an emergency switch. When triggered, the ecv would hook up to GPS and determine its location. Once its current location is determined a titanium seat belt locks into place trapping the offending party. The ECV then calculates the shortest route to the rivers of america. Once the ECV is 100 feet from the ROA a proximity sensor will activate the natural gas canister under the seat and the battery will spark causing the cart to become engulfed in flames. This also triggers loudspeakers in the area to start playing led zeppelin's black dog at 110 decibels. A ramp will lift at the edge of ROA and the cart will then receive a nitro boost sending the ECV into the ROA, on fire, at 120 mph while Black Dog plays in the background.

Just an idea, I don't know about the cost/feasability/staffing of such a project.

:pbjtime:

Ohmygosh! I read that post and immediately thought of Randy B (sniff).

Nah, too much money to burn up the ECV, ejector seats is all you need.

ktulu wrote:Nah, too much money to burn up the ECV, ejector seats is all you need.

That may be true, but have you seen a burned out ECV? We once had a fire in the DL ECV shed where 3 ECVs were totally lost and several others had melted or charred plastic. Thankfully it happened overnight and no one was hurt. But I wish I could have gotten a picture of one of those burned out ECVs and posted it with some kind of funny caption like "Don't mess with CMs."

Holy crap I registered on SGT 5 years ago today and my post above was one of my first posts!