Posted on 03/27/2013 8:27:48 AM PDT by Huntress
A wheelchair-bound man was awarded $8,000 by Disneyland after the "It's A Small World" ride broke, stranding him for a half hour while the theme song played continuously, according to an attorney for the plaintiff.
Jose Martinez, who suffers from panic attacks and high blood pressure, did not medically stabilize for three hours after the ride broke down in 2009, attorney David Geffen said.
"He has panic disorder and that was really what started everything rolling," Geffen said. "What caused the court concern, as well, because Disney was alerted about his panic problem and didn't call for the fire department right away."
Disneyland spokeswoman Suzi Brown said the Anaheim theme park believes it provided appropriate assistance during the incident, and is disappointed that the court did not fully agree.
Martinez uses a wheelchair, and Geffen said the plaintiff's high blood pressure was aggravated by a need to urinate while he was stuck on the ride.
While the other riders were able to get off, Martinez was stuck until he could access his wheelchair.
Half the award ordered last week is for pain and suffering, and the rest is for a violation of disability law, Geffen said.
Brown told NBC4 the violation concerning the height of the counter in Disneyland’s first aid station has been corrected.
How 'bout
"Tea for two
and two for tea
and me for you
and you for me."
...
LOL, you’re the second FReeper to challenge me. Jerk!
Both Baltimore and Washington local channels are broadcasting the 'Me TV' network on their dual digital TV broadcast channels and Verizon gives us both of them which is the same programming except the WBAL version breaks for local news a few hours a week blocking The Odd Couple. (10 pm weekdays.) and 2 hours Sunday. So I watch the DC one
Voyage to the Bottom is on 12 midnight Saturday night/ Sunday Morning just after the weekly Chiller type horror/sci-fi 'B' movie(1940s and 1950s I loved as a kid) , after Start Trek and Lost in Space, and my favorite Hogans Heroes.
Enter your zip here: 'Me TV' network 'where to watch' enter zip code window
On weeknights when FNC is play pre-taped lame O Reilly and Hannity and Maddow is celibrating the dawn of gay liberation enlightenment in the courts its great to turn on ME TV back where/when parents were married and the opposite sex, not to mention born here legally, except the evil German scientists.
Remember that the next time some 'fellow traveler' insists that he cannot be hypnotized or mind-controlled by TV or Movies.
We are all MUCH MORE SUSCEPTIBLE than any of us would admit.
Which is why he only got $8000.
I don't think it matters that much. Anyone stuck on a ride out in public view that has to pee probably considers it a life-threatening situation.
I know I would be threatening somebody's life if I had to go pee and was stuck on IT'S A SMALL WORLD ride at Disneyland.
(No disrespect meant to the medical complications of this man, just trying to keep things real).
Thanks for the info! I had no idea I had those channels! Looks like I can even get Alfred Hitchcock! What a treat!
How else were they supposed to know if the Flying Submarine took off okay?
-PJ
Thanks for the info.
Yeah... the pirates now chase the cabin boys.
I guess I should have sued too. ;~))
Good point!
“We are all MUCH MORE SUSCEPTIBLE than any of us would admit”.
It’s a world of . . .what? after all (what) after centuries of judeochristianity?
NO, NO.
A child in formative years hears this pap and starts thinking Disney’s made a new discovery. People like this man, through years of dealing with true suffering, knows when to tune out the brainwashing poisonous crap from the airwaves has had true injury after even a half hour of being subjected to this.
THe courts will not see it, like MNDude doesn’t see it, but this guy knows to take the lawyers fees and go.
He’s been through POW camp. There is no doubt
No problem. I can go into a Fred Astaire image with that one. I can bounce off that and think of Rob and Laura - Fred Astaire said Dick Van Dyke was the best American dancer- great physical comedy. Then I can daydream about my senior prom - all without being interrupted by a horrible out of time (weird non-classical time signature) jingle designed to brainwash.
There is just so much more in music than we want to admit; we don’t know it because classical education went out of mode in the sixties.
From Wiki:
“Tea for Two” became a jazz standard and was recorded by numerous bands and instrumentalists. Early notable performances and a recording of the song were made by jazz virtuoso Art Tatum in 1939. Pianist Thelonious Monk knew the song well, reharmonizing the song and recording it with a bebop-style melody in 1952 with the name “Skippy” and returning to the original melody with a charming arrangement for his 1963 album Criss Cross. Anita O’Day’s rendition of the song at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival was considered one of the festival’s highlights.
Jose should have been awarded at least $1,000 per minute for having to listen the that “song”.
shhhh the music lawyers will sue him for listening without paying.
For San Francisco Bay Area viewers, KOFY runs MeTV on their digital channel, which is 196 for Comcast customers.
-PJ
It makes perfect sense given the demographics in this-country and digital TV.
In the early 1970s in bigger cities like Boston and NYC (IN NYS) they had three network channels a PBS achannel (Sesame Street) and a number of what they called syndicated channels: 2 in Boston and 3 in NYC
and they all played mostly 1960s and 1950s TV shows and scores of 1930s to 1950s movies included my favorite B horror and Sci-fi monster movies, filling every Saturday with about five monster type movies that one day
WPIX had Chiller and WNEW had Creature Feature AND WOR had Fright Night all on Saturdays, all competing.
And this this overlapped with the introduction of re-broadcast cable TV in the mid 1970s when it was legal for cable to just put up huge antenna and put it out on cable.
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