Disabled man awarded $8000 after being stranded on Disneyland ride [It's a Small World]

nbcnews.com ^ | 3/27/2013 | Unattributed

[Celtic Conservative]

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).

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[shibumi]

"...and I'll have to dig it out with a screwdriver."

Guaranteed brain cleanser. She's cute too.

[svcw]

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

[sickoflibs]

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.

[kevkrom]

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.

[ProudFossil]

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 ..."

[rktman]

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.

[yldstrk]

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.

[DoodleDawg]

Only 8 grand? Disney got off cheap.

[JRios1968]

Oops, you are correct!

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

[MNDude]

that tune is atheist?

[chessplayer]

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

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

[al baby]

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

[circlecity]

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.

[toldyou]

“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.

[Red Badger]

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

[diamond6]

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.

[Political Junkie Too]

Me, too. I even bought the 45rpm record.

-PJ

[andyk]

LOL, I was so unaware of that meme. But, now I am enlightened.

[Borges]

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