Stupid Guest Tricks

I really don't understand guest's fascination with stealing from team members. Yes, they paid a lot of money to get in and feel they should be compensated for the long lines and blah blah blah; but how is stealing from an employee getting revenge on the park? It's not productive or clever it's just mean.

Items stolen from me personally since October:
My cane
my shark puppet (I bought that with my own money and it's impossible for me to get another one)
My water bottles (thefts clearly prompted by a desire to make me suffer.)

A message to guests: stealing from me does not hurt the company. It hurts me personally and impedes my ability to deliver a positive experience to you and other guests in the park. Knock it off!

sad to say some people are just ASSHOLES. You make sooooo much $$ that it is no big deal to them.

I dont think this will work exactly for your situation, but I had friends that would do evil things to people who stole from them...


People who stole food from the common fridge would find themselves eating exlax instead of a dbl choc brownie.

This one friend found that someone like taking his stuff to piss him off... so he poo'd in a peanut can.. sat it in the sun to cook ( sealed up of course... ) and then left it for the offending person....

My fav. was this one guy kept getting Gay Porn sent to him at work... tampons and fem. products in the co. mail....


hope this helps..

The Doctor

My wife had her lunch in the company fridge, it was all in a bag that was obviously someone's personal stuff. She keeps bags from like Victoria Secrets, Babystyle and other stores that have good bags to keep around for stuff like taking your lunch to work.

Anyway, one friday this guy asks the old office manager lady if these drinks from a company event are for anyone. She says yes. So this mensa candidate goes into the fridge, into my wifes bag and takes a diet coke. So my wife tells the owner/CEO guy, not really bitching, just more like a WTF type thing.

Monday morning comes, and the guy is fired. Yeah, don't steal stuff from my wife! Actually the guy was not a good employee and probably would have gotten fired anyway, but everyone pretty much decided it was cause he stole my wife's diet coke :D:

When I worked at Backdraft an Indian father and son stole our clicker. It was sitting on the podeum, another CM and I turned around to answer a guests question, and father and son who were standing on the other side of the podeum snatched it. When it was time to load the show it was missing. SG and son came back to ask what that thingy we hold is called. Ha, so obvious. I wanted to say "Oh you mean the thing you stole?".....
Even our supervisor and the Park 1 said it sounded like they stole it.


we also keep our water bottles inside the podeum during the day. A mentally disabled guest (who was a regular and was obsessed with talking to a particular CM) reaches in and grabs his arrowhead and takes a chug.

I once heard that when they were building MK's Jungle Cruise, the workers were bringing in huge coleman coolers and stealing things, including glass eyes from the animals (WHY?!), and Disney could not do anything about it.

Too bad you couldn't attach this to your shark puppet, then watch the fun when the alarm goes off!!


http://www.mypreciouskid.com/child-locator.html

I had someone steal my lunch bag at the TTC breakroom. Had a pretty expensive book in it. Good thing I had read the thing and gotten everything out of it.

Also lost my coffee canteen to theft in the same break room. I am about ready on a day off to take my camera, put it on that shelf and watch. :eatpopcn:

Should I at that point get security involved, or the police? What are the laws regarding a citizen's arrest in Orange County?

Big Wallaby wrote:I am about ready on a day off to take my camera, put it on that shelf and watch. :eatpopcn:

That'll disappear too.

hobie16 wrote:That'll disappear too.

I think that is the point, use it as bait to catch the thief. They take the camera on a day off and get in a position where they are not visible and then, when the thief, tries to take the camera, use it to take their picture. Or something along those lines.