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Disabled man awarded $8000 after being stranded on Disneyland ride [It's a Small World]
nbcnews.com ^ | 3/27/2013 | Unattributed

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: disney; disorders; itsasmallworld; lawsuit; lifeinhell
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To: Huntress
If it had been the haunted mansion or pirates of the caribbean no big deal, but good god not it's a small world! the poor bastard earned every penny (and I LIKE Disneyland).

CC

21 posted on 03/27/2013 8:39:12 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Hey liberals, what part of "unalienable" don't you understand?)
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To: KarlInOhio; al baby
"...and I'll have to dig it out with a screwdriver."

Guaranteed brain cleanser. She's cute too.
22 posted on 03/27/2013 8:40:06 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: Huntress

Anyone who has any disorder should have not gotten on the demonic ride in the first place.
What was he thinkg?


23 posted on 03/27/2013 8:40:26 AM PDT by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: DManA
RE :”I was there. Except for that ride it was a pretty cool trip.”

Same here. That lame ride ironically forecast what would happen to Flushing Queens the next two decades 70s and 80s and to the rest of the East coast afterward 2000s,

'Its a small world' because they are here NOW voting for Obama.

24 posted on 03/27/2013 8:41:00 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: yldstrk
what the hell is a wheelchair bound man with a panic disorder doing on a carnival ride

It's a slow-moving boat ride. Hardly something that should cause a problem -- they have a special loading area for guests with disabilities and everything.

25 posted on 03/27/2013 8:41:10 AM PDT by kevkrom (If a wise man has an argument with a foolish man, the fool only rages or laughs...)
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To: Huntress
I wonder if he ever got that song out of his head.

Having been on that ride I can definitely state: "That song will drive you batty in no time. Once is enough but over and over and over and ..."

26 posted on 03/27/2013 8:42:11 AM PDT by ProudFossil (" I never did give anyone hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell." Harry Truman)
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To: KarlInOhio

LOL! Roger that. Power drill helps. Gotta feel for the guy being subjected to that tune for that long. Maybe they should offer him lifetime tickets to any dizzy park in the world.


27 posted on 03/27/2013 8:43:01 AM PDT by rktman (BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST MR. PRESIDENT!(not that we'd get the truth!))
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To: kevkrom

I have been on it, I know what it is, and that doesn’t change my comment one iota. It is on water, what if he fell out and frickin drowned, he is wheelchair bound, Disney ought to point out these morons need to assume their own risk if they are getting on the ride. It ain’t a cocoon folks.


28 posted on 03/27/2013 8:43:20 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Huntress

Only 8 grand? Disney got off cheap.


29 posted on 03/27/2013 8:43:28 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Pan_Yan
Oops, you are correct!

Even if it's only half an hour...


30 posted on 03/27/2013 8:44:16 AM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: stanne

that tune is atheist?


31 posted on 03/27/2013 8:45:13 AM PDT by MNDude (I survived the sequester!)
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To: yldstrk

what the hell is a wheelchair bound man with a panic disorder doing on a carnival ride????????????????? have people lost their ever loving mind


Stupid, yeah. Still doesn’t excuse them from not calling the fire dept., though.


32 posted on 03/27/2013 8:47:13 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: DoodleDawg

Disney has a wonderful legal dept. they almost always get off real light


33 posted on 03/27/2013 8:48:16 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: Huntress

That’s what we call a nuisance settlement. I guarantee the plaintiff’s attorney has more than $2600 (his third) in time and expenses invested in the case. He lost.


34 posted on 03/27/2013 8:48:49 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: yldstrk

“what the hell is a wheelchair bound man with a panic disorder doing on a carnival ride????????????????? have people lost their ever loving minds”

That’s what I was thinking! You have to be physically able and mentally stable to go on any rides! I hope he didn’t go on Space Mountain. There’s another $8,000 for getting scared. I won’t even go onto flume rides. But having to wait at Small World for 1/2 hour? I am so tired of stupid lawsuits and greedy people.


35 posted on 03/27/2013 8:49:24 AM PDT by toldyou (Even if the voices aren't real, they have some pretty good ideas.)
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To: andyk

Feelings...........nothing more than feelings.........


36 posted on 03/27/2013 8:49:31 AM PDT by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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To: Huntress

1/2 an hour!!! Oh good grief, I swear some people are such wimps! I was stuck for about fifteen minutes on Space Mountain, near the top. You didn’t hear me whining about it. Although at first I was concerned that maybe the car behind us might run into us but that didn’t happen.

If this man has panic attacks, then maybe he shouldn’t go on rides.


37 posted on 03/27/2013 8:50:44 AM PDT by diamond6 (Need scientific proof of God? Check out: http://www.magisreasonfaith.org/)
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To: sickoflibs
Me, too. I even bought the 45rpm record.

-PJ

38 posted on 03/27/2013 8:50:45 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: JRios1968
LOL, I was so unaware of that meme. But, now I am enlightened.
39 posted on 03/27/2013 8:54:12 AM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: Huntress

That song is the single most performed and most translated piece of music on Earth. One shudders.


40 posted on 03/27/2013 8:54:46 AM PDT by Borges
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