Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

'I spent $15,000': Man arrested at Disney resort in Florida after refusing temperature check
NBC News ^ | 4/4/2021 | Doha Madani

Posted on 04/05/2021 7:38:18 AM PDT by simpson96

A man who was arrested after refusing a temperature screening at Disney Springs in Florida told authorities that he couldn't be told to leave because he had spent $15,000 on his vacation.

The man, Kelly Sills, a tourist from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, bypassed the Orlando attraction's medical screening in February and refused to get his temperature checked when asked by Disney employees, according to a report from the Orange County Sheriff's Department.

Body camera video released recently showed Sills refusing to leave when asked by law enforcement.

"I spent $15,000 to come here," Sills said after a deputy told him that he was officially considered to be trespassing. Deputies and a security manager at Disney Springs had approached Sills outside the Boathouse restaurant, according to the police report.

The report said Sills argued with the security manager, yelling at him, before the manager told him he was "no longer welcome at the park today."

A woman could be heard asking officers not to arrest Sills in the video.

"He's not listening," a man responded. "All he had to do was get temperature-checked. That's it."

At another point in the video, Sills asked whether authorities could take his temperature before forcing him to leave. Someone responded that they would do so at jail, according to NBC affiliate WFLA of Tampa. Sills also claimed to be a Disney stockholder at another point.

Sills pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor trespassing charge, according to court records. His attorney, Michael Zmijewski, declined to comment Sunday.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: batonrouge; disneysprings; florida; kellysills; louisiana; orlando
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-75 next last
To: simpson96
A man who was arrested after refusing a temperature screening at Disney Springs in Florida told authorities that he couldn't be told to leave because he had spent $15,000 on his vacation.

LOL! How did that work out for him?

41 posted on 04/05/2021 8:15:39 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: heartwood

D. All the above.


42 posted on 04/05/2021 8:17:59 AM PDT by bigbob
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: heartwood

Easy if you stay at one of the better rooms at one of Disney’s Deluxe resorts. Those can sent a guy back a grand a night or more just for the hotel. Of course, they have many other options besides that, but he sounds like the type that would refuse to stay at a Disney Value or Moderate resort.


43 posted on 04/05/2021 8:18:48 AM PDT by Stravinsky
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: SamAdams76

We went to a restaurant a few months ago they where taking temperatures and the woman lets take you temperature so i turned around and started to drop my pants we all laughed


44 posted on 04/05/2021 8:21:22 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]

To: al baby

My best friend had covid and never spiked a temp past 98.6.


45 posted on 04/05/2021 8:25:16 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: DoodleDawg

So you’re just gonna let a mouse treat you like that?


46 posted on 04/05/2021 8:28:49 AM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 41 | View Replies]

To: simpson96

I personally don’t know why anyone would spend $15K to go to Commie Disney these days, but to each one’s own, I suppose.

This whole farce has created a little army of mask-muffled underachievers who get off to barking “Sir! Sir!” or “Ma’am! Ma’am!” followed by their little orders to have their temperature checked or to don a face diaper. What an obnoxious bunch they are.


47 posted on 04/05/2021 8:29:10 AM PDT by Allegra
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: simpson96

It costs a lot of money to go to Disney, far too much money to put at risk, IMHO. You don’t know back in, say, October, when you are planning your trip there in March that on the particular day in March you want to get in the park you will will have a little bug that causes you to have a temp of 100.

How many times in our lives have we had a little something that made us feel a little off and have a slight temp, but we were so caught up in the excitement or busyness of whatever we were doing we didn’t notice it?


48 posted on 04/05/2021 8:37:32 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: heartwood

I’ll take dumbass for $15k please.


49 posted on 04/05/2021 8:44:23 AM PDT by zek157
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Cowgirl of Justice

I don’t think I had a temp the 1st week. First few days I wasn’t sure I was even sick, but I did have a tightness in chest.

I had a low temp half the time between 97.5-98 with bone shaking chills and higher temps were around 99.5. Once or twice it got to 100. Thought the thermometer was broken initially, but 2nd thermometer confirmed low temp readings.


50 posted on 04/05/2021 8:53:20 AM PDT by zek157
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

To: faithhopecharity

It is private property. You have the ability to force people entering your home to do something that doesn’t harm them and make it stick, just like they can. A temp check is not harmful. And if your visitor doesn’t wish to comply, you can tell them to hit the bricks and if they don’t, it is call the cops and they will be arrested.

He defied the order, and refused to leave. He is guilty of what he was charged with. If he wants to challenge the temp laws of the state, it will make no difference as on their property, Disney, just like you, can still require temps to enter or stay on property at their front door and continue to do so until the guest conforms. That’s their privilege.

wy69


51 posted on 04/05/2021 8:57:46 AM PDT by whitney69
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: EVO X

Corn dogs and coke


52 posted on 04/05/2021 9:11:08 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: Cowgirl of Justice

Does she run low to begin with I do and always have so that could be a mild fever for her and me


53 posted on 04/05/2021 9:19:03 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

To: simpson96

15K? he could have gone to Hawaii.


54 posted on 04/05/2021 9:31:56 AM PDT by ronniesgal (Hillary wants to be Governor of New York!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: al baby

I think it likely intoxication at some level is part of the story.


55 posted on 04/05/2021 9:41:22 AM PDT by EVO X
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: KittyKares

You just hold a cold water bottle or icepack to your forehead.


56 posted on 04/05/2021 9:47:38 AM PDT by RedStateRocker ("Never miss a good chance to Shut Up" - Will Rogers)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: simpson96

Thanks for your money, sucker! All you have to do is let the man take your temperature, and you won’t go to jail. That’s it. Won’t you comply?

When cops are called for refusing to submit to a temperature check we have lost the “democracy” we thought we had. It is no longer a free country.

This is not a matter for the police. Police have guns, thick sticks, pepper spray, handcuffs, and the ability to kill you if you don’t comply. (Comply means passivly submit to whatever you are ordered to do. Failure to comply means force is escalated. Escalating force means they don’t back down. Everything you do from that point on makes the situation more violent.)

Did the country go from a land of freedom, liberty, rights of the individual to fascism in 1 year? No. It was already quick-stepping toward fascism. The chinese virus gave the fascists the excuse they wanted to turn the fascism dial to Full On.

That’s it. You’re going to hear that a lot. It’ll be reparations: “It’ll cost only a few cents a month in additional taxes. That’s it.” “We’re only going to bring a FEW families from the inner city to your suburb. Just 1 or 2. That’s it.” “Taxes will go up just a few cents because of the million muslims we just brought in. That’s it.”

“We’re only sending a few Whites to the gulags. That’s it.” “The new euthanasia law will affect only 2-3 people per year. That’s it.” “We’ve set inflation to just 7.8% per year. That’s it.” “Only a few Whites will be affected by the new affirmative action laws. That’s it.”


57 posted on 04/05/2021 9:58:08 AM PDT by I want the USA back (I fear my government many times more than I fear the chinese kungfu virus.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Cowgirl of Justice

The whole building complex where I used to work had temperature-taking devices at all the entrances.

It didn’t keep the wuhanvirus out; every other week there’d be a report that someone had tested positive and got sent home, and those folks that were near them were told to quarantine.


58 posted on 04/05/2021 10:03:35 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

To: Justa
So you’re just gonna let a mouse treat you like that?

It's the mouse's house which means you follow the mouse's rules or you don't go in.

59 posted on 04/05/2021 10:21:08 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: irishjuggler

If you stay at a Deluxe Disney resort for 10 nights, plus get daily park tickets with a park hopper, you can easily spend that much.

Especially if you are a poor planner!


60 posted on 04/05/2021 10:32:02 AM PDT by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-75 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson