Posted on 05/18/2022 4:08:12 PM PDT by simpson96
A former Disney intern has been arrested after threatening to blow up Cinderella Castle in Walt Disney World with a bomb.
On May 16, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers (CBP) arrested Canadian resident 22-year-old Matthew Carney at the Ogdensburg Port of Entry, which connects Canada and New York.
According to Fox 35, Carney was part of a Disney internship program when he made the threat back in July 2019. The Miami Herald reported that the incident began when he walked through a metal detector at Magic Kingdom without setting it off and told the security guards, “it's ok if I brought a bomb in."
An officer asked him to repeat what he said, to which Carney confirmed, "Yeah, I’m going to blow up the castle" as it is “a symbol of the Magic Kingdom.” The former intern then repeated the threat to a security manager. According to the manager, he had a straight face when he made the statement and that when he was searched, two cell phones were found, one that was not operational.
“Based on my training and experience of more than 14 years of law enforcement, I know that a cellular device is capable of detonating a previously place device, remotely,” the Orange County Sheriff’s Office deputy wrote in the filing.
Carney was charged with "threats to throw, project and place a destructive device," and the police report placed him "at large" when it was filed.
According to the report, Carney is in custody at the St. Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office in upstate New York and is being held without bail. The official motion stated that Carney had no idea that there was an outstanding warrant against him or of the delayed State Attorney's Office filing from the incident.
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Sounds like he was joking, but it’s not a good idea to joke about blowing up buildings.
I would tend to go for sarcasm.
Security people tend to have no sense of humor and rightly so but when you are having a bad day anyway the urge to yank their chain can be almost overwhelming.
They waited 3 years to arrest him?!
It’s practically waterproof cardboard, isn’t it?
He could have raised a million on Kickstarter if he’d targeted It’s a Small World
When I was a kid I wanted to blow up the castle too when I found out it was fake and I couldn’t climb up to the parapet.
An early lesson on the falseness of Hollywood.
“He could have raised a million on Kickstarter if he’d targeted It’s a Small World”
That’s funny right there!
I have been on that ride more times than I care, as y kids, (then younger), always wanted to ride it. I would literally have a headache for the rest of the day and that song would not leave my head.
I cannot imagine working that ride as a cast member.
I often thought that all we would need to do is put captured Al Qaeda terrorists on that ride and not let them off until they spilled their guts, and we could have nipped them in the bud.
Milton! Steven Root is a prolific actor. Took me a while to figure out that he was The Man in the High Castle.
Oh my...,🤣
I once suffered through that experience.
Pine is good!
How’s 20 bucks sound?
Your greeting had an H.
Missed one there. Should have let him go ahead, and then blame DeSantis.
So in 2019 no one took it serious enough to arrest him and charge him? It’s not like they did not know who he was and how to find him. Why 3 years later? Sounds like there is something missing in this story.
The rest of us learned from a 45 min McGuyver episode.
Interesting. He says he will blow up a paper mache building and is held without bail. The murderer of Buffalo threatens to shoot up a store and only receives a two day time out.
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