mriggins
08-31-2008, 12:59 AM
I've been an annual passholder for 10 years, my wife and I got married at Disneyland, and we went have a daughter whom we take to Disneyland 2-3x a month. Never, have I had a wild night like tonight!
We decided to head out to Disneyland this evening, after the sun (and the temps) went down. Usually I never go Labor Day weekend, more then likely the day after when crowds are zero. But due to our schedules, this was a good time.
Arrived to the park at 8:30pm and headed over to Frontier Land to get onto Big Thunder Mountain. Heading in line, got behind a bunch of kids smoking pot. Yah! Ugh that smell is horrible. (NO, I don't smoke pot! But I was around it once when someone mentioned that the smell was that of pot and I never forgot that putrid odor) Alright. So I reported it to a cast member, no biggie, and we continued on with our evening.
At around 10:08pm (8/30/08) we head into the Jungle Cruise. We just walked in the front (didn't even get to the first left turn of the queue) when we hear (and see) a CM yelling at the top of his lungs STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!
A second later KAAAABLLLAAAAAAAMOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! There was a boat stopped at the front/upper queue boarding area and here comes a boat what appeared to be full throttle and goes right into the back of the boat waiting at the front loading area!!!!
That was a wild impact and made all kinds of crashing/crackling sounds!!!
What really shocked me was the CM at the controls of the boat that rammed the other boat had this wild smirky grin on his face like "Whoops he hah hahaaha" I mean, he literally didn't care at all.
Another CM came up from the front boat with a flash light and looked at the back of the front boat, and the front of the back boat for damage. Then the boat that got hit took off with no passengers, my guess to unload it at the storage area after a run around the track.
The CM who was in the rear boat came up and parked and they loaded passengers. I couldn't believe anyone got on. We were another boat away and if I were ready to board, I would have refused that guys boat ride. No thanks!!!
Alright, so after that, we go on Tiki Room. Are the CM's on drugs?! Oh my goodness. The girl looked have plastered and talked like she was stoned to death. She then says she's going to wake up Jose and comes over with their wooden stick and beats on his perch for a good 20 seconds, no show starts. She then goes "hmmm..." and walks back to the control area. I heard her go "Whoops" and then says "Ok folks on the count of 3 say wake up jose 123! (Not 1...2....3... but just 123!) LOL! Everyone says wake up jose and then literally 4-5 seconds after we say it, he starts his show. She was way ahead of the time delay. Seriously, was this girl the brother of the guy driving the jungle boat?
So, after that, we leave. It's about 11:25pm, and coming out of the parking structure, they have all of Ball Road access closed. I needed to get some gas and usually go to that Shell right near the 5. Ok, so I take the over pass, and do the usual u-turn. On the way back south towards Ball Road, Anaheim PD has all lanes into DLR (even towards Magic Way) shut down with 2 police cars there AND all lanes going to east Ball Road shut down. What is going on here! I had to go west on ball road. I went down to the first light and hung a left to go down to Katella. I headed east on Katella to see what was going on down 22nd near the backside of DCA. Sure enough, all that was shut down by Ahaheim PD as well with a couple police cars. No idea what was going on.
But certainly a wild night!!!! No more labor day weekends at DLR for me! And funny enough, NO LINES!!!
Matt
We decided to head out to Disneyland this evening, after the sun (and the temps) went down. Usually I never go Labor Day weekend, more then likely the day after when crowds are zero. But due to our schedules, this was a good time.
Arrived to the park at 8:30pm and headed over to Frontier Land to get onto Big Thunder Mountain. Heading in line, got behind a bunch of kids smoking pot. Yah! Ugh that smell is horrible. (NO, I don't smoke pot! But I was around it once when someone mentioned that the smell was that of pot and I never forgot that putrid odor) Alright. So I reported it to a cast member, no biggie, and we continued on with our evening.
At around 10:08pm (8/30/08) we head into the Jungle Cruise. We just walked in the front (didn't even get to the first left turn of the queue) when we hear (and see) a CM yelling at the top of his lungs STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!
A second later KAAAABLLLAAAAAAAMOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! There was a boat stopped at the front/upper queue boarding area and here comes a boat what appeared to be full throttle and goes right into the back of the boat waiting at the front loading area!!!!
That was a wild impact and made all kinds of crashing/crackling sounds!!!
What really shocked me was the CM at the controls of the boat that rammed the other boat had this wild smirky grin on his face like "Whoops he hah hahaaha" I mean, he literally didn't care at all.
Another CM came up from the front boat with a flash light and looked at the back of the front boat, and the front of the back boat for damage. Then the boat that got hit took off with no passengers, my guess to unload it at the storage area after a run around the track.
The CM who was in the rear boat came up and parked and they loaded passengers. I couldn't believe anyone got on. We were another boat away and if I were ready to board, I would have refused that guys boat ride. No thanks!!!
Alright, so after that, we go on Tiki Room. Are the CM's on drugs?! Oh my goodness. The girl looked have plastered and talked like she was stoned to death. She then says she's going to wake up Jose and comes over with their wooden stick and beats on his perch for a good 20 seconds, no show starts. She then goes "hmmm..." and walks back to the control area. I heard her go "Whoops" and then says "Ok folks on the count of 3 say wake up jose 123! (Not 1...2....3... but just 123!) LOL! Everyone says wake up jose and then literally 4-5 seconds after we say it, he starts his show. She was way ahead of the time delay. Seriously, was this girl the brother of the guy driving the jungle boat?
So, after that, we leave. It's about 11:25pm, and coming out of the parking structure, they have all of Ball Road access closed. I needed to get some gas and usually go to that Shell right near the 5. Ok, so I take the over pass, and do the usual u-turn. On the way back south towards Ball Road, Anaheim PD has all lanes into DLR (even towards Magic Way) shut down with 2 police cars there AND all lanes going to east Ball Road shut down. What is going on here! I had to go west on ball road. I went down to the first light and hung a left to go down to Katella. I headed east on Katella to see what was going on down 22nd near the backside of DCA. Sure enough, all that was shut down by Ahaheim PD as well with a couple police cars. No idea what was going on.
But certainly a wild night!!!! No more labor day weekends at DLR for me! And funny enough, NO LINES!!!
Matt