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ajinterpreters
02-10-2004, 05:50 AM
Last time we were in Dl,we were over next to Autopia and saw these teenagers getting out of their car and start running! Somehow they got the car to continue going all on its own???? Anyway, a few minutes later we saw them again but this time with security! They were headed towards the main gate so i am sure that they were getting kicked out.

Anyone else seen people kicked out??? How often does it happen do you think?

Freerider127
02-10-2004, 02:56 PM
Well if you jump out of your car on Autopia or jump out of a boat on Splash your for sure going to be kicked out if not have charges brought against you. I have a question, if you go backstage for instance "looking" for a bathroom would you get kicked out? If you didnt know. Im curious about that I wonder if anybodys tried that.

ppmuse
02-10-2004, 02:58 PM
I was given a warning once. We were on the Skyway and my friend was starting to freak out, because of the height and being on a cable. So I started shaking it, and he started laughing and relaxed. When we got to the other side, the guy working the ride said if we went on the ride again and did the same thing, he would kick us out. I haven't been warned since, but I'm guessing warnings happen a lot, actually getting kicked out, not so much.

tod
02-10-2004, 03:30 PM
This happened to my brother.

In the mid-'80s, he was an impoverished student. He was hanging out with a group of friends on the bottom level of the Hungry Bear, back before Splash Mountain was built and the johns were across the walkway and NObody went downstairs at the Hungry Bear.

These kids were so broke they only had ONE PIPE between them and they had to SHARE it, that's how broke they were.

An inquisitive Cast Member -- one of those "guys with the hearing aids" as we liked to call them -- came up and asked "What's in the pipe?"

My brother, quick-thinking person that he is, tossed the pipe in the Rivers of America. Bloosh! "What pipe?"

This aroused the ire of the Cast Member, who trooped them across the park to "somewhere behind Main Street" and stamped their hands with big black X rubber stamps and shooed them out the Harbor House tunnel, after a This-is-private-property-Pot-may-be-legal-but-we-don't-accept-using-it-here-The-X-will-wash-off-in-a-few-days-after-that-you're-welcome-to-come-back lecture.

When the CM sent them away, he said he hoped they didn't have any hard feelings and my brother smiled and said -- sincerely -- "Thanks for the Backstage tour."

"The guy looked shocked that this pot smoker knew the lingo," my brother later said with a laugh.

--T
who has never taken drugs. At Disneyland.

cemeinke
02-10-2004, 05:58 PM
I've gotten the "backstage tour" twice, and was let back into the park in both occassion.

Knott's just kicked me out.

innerSpaceman
02-10-2004, 09:12 PM
I got kicked out once, a long, long time ago, for smoking pot on Tom Sawyer Island.

Got to see Disneyland jail and everything.


Since then, done tons of drugs at the Park and never got kicked out. Snuck into so many backstage places and never got kicked out. Quota of one.

zapppop
02-10-2004, 10:03 PM
You should tell them the story behind this photo:

http://members.aol.com/lunerds/hmbuttonsteve.jpg

ToursbabeC3po
02-10-2004, 11:27 PM
I have only had one person removed from the park.....It was about 4 years ago and it was because he threatened me and was very orally abusive because his child was two small to ride the attraction. I can handle a person that is orally abusive even though I don't have to put up with it but I just did not feel comfortable with him in the park knowing he said that next time he saw me he was going to beat my head into the ground....It takes a lot for me to have someone removed from the park. I have many of times made people leave the attraction because of safety reasons. TO me safety is number one and if you stand up on my ride and I have to stop it because of it and you ruin the ride for everyone else I am not going to be a happy cast member.

Germboy
02-11-2004, 03:13 AM
I'm sorry. Maybe I sound like a prude.

I don't understand how anyone can mix drugs or alcohol with Disneyland.

It's not right.

I've tried having a drink before going into the park before, and felt HORRIBLE once I got inside. It felt like all of my childhood dreams and aspirations went up in smoke.

What good is the story when you are incapacitated? Don't you feel like you let down your Mom and Dad? :crying:

Germboy
02-11-2004, 03:14 AM
Originally posted by zapppop
You should tell them the story behind this photo:

http://members.aol.com/lunerds/hmbuttonsteve.jpg

???

cstephens
02-11-2004, 03:15 AM
Originally posted by ajinterpreters
Anyone else seen people kicked out??? How often does it happen do you think?

I've gotten kicked out of the Disney Gallery. Does that count?

mom_rules
02-11-2004, 06:50 AM
Can't really understand it myself-why would you pay all this $ to go to a family rated destination-only to get tossed?

Moonliner
02-11-2004, 11:07 AM
Apparently it was harder to get kicked out when I was a kid. We used to hop off the railroad and walk-the-rails most of the way around the park. We'd get a stern look from the engineer as he passed by us but that was about it.

innerSpaceman
02-11-2004, 04:37 PM
Originally posted by zapppop
You should tell them the story behind this [photo]

I didn't get kicked out the Park for this incident.


I got kicked out of the Haunted Mansion, and the Park was already closed ... so yeah, I left the Park right after being kicked off the Haunted Mansion.


But sit down kiddies, and I'll tell you a story.

It was just after midnight one summer evening, and the Park had just closed. We were in the Haunted Mansion when the clock struck twelve. A friend and I were in the stretch room with a handful of other people. There were no CMs in the room, no CMs in the lobby, no CMs on the front porch, no CMs visible anywhere in the attraction.

Two more guests came in, and then we waited. And waited. And waited. 15 minutes had come and gone without another guest entering the attraction and without a single CM showing their face. At the ten minute mark, I went out to look for a CM, but came back emptyhanded. At the 15-minute mark, I made the fateful decision to take matters into my own hand (or, in this case, finger).

Truly, if it weren't for the fact that some careless CM had left open the panel to the elevator control buttons, I would never have known where those controls were. But they did, and now I do. As you can see from the photo (which I am not including here since it is featured in no less than 2 posts above), the controls are rather simple. Up. Down. I pressed Down.

Doors close, show begins. Ghost Host performs on cue. Stretch room stretches. Body falls. Doors open.

Fine. Our closing party of eight or nine guests heads towards the doombuggies and that's when some really unappreciative guest rats me out to the loading CM. I suppose they would have rather waited till dawn for their ride through the Haunted Mansion. My friend and I board our doombuggy, but just as we are about to head up the stairway to the endless corridor, the ride comes to a screeching halt. This time, we are the prankish spirits.

We are asked to disembark our buggy, and are told to stand to the side and wait.

After a few minutes, we felt a cold chill. The hair on the back of our necks stood up. We looked toward the far end of the loading zone and, from out of the dark, a ghastly apparation approached. It was the lead Haunted Mansion CM, a very stern woman whose face was frozen in a horrifying grimace. Unlike the other CMs who could not disguise their OC highschoolness even in the elaborate green costumes - - the lead truly looked as if she were a lady from the 19th century. She had that ... that face that people today just - don't - have. In the costume, she was a dead ringer for a women out of the past - and she seemed the perfect ghost as she all but floated towards us most creepily.

She proceeded to berate and harangue us mercilessly, really getting in our faces and wagging her finger under our noses. Nothing less than the safety of guests was at stake. Her performance was incredible and I have never so enjoyed being yelled at by a CM. I let her finish, wanting to savor every moment of her humiliating lecture. And then, as politely as I could muster, I relayed that we had been left in the stretch room unattended for over 15 minutes and that the panel to the elevator controls had been left open.

She launched into a another tirade about what gave us the right to operate the attraction ourselves. And I calmly replied that, since there were no CMs around for over a quarter of an hour, I assumed (and yeah, this was a fib) that the stretch room was similar to the (then still operating) Rocket Jets, which indeed had a guest-operated, self-service elevator. The guests were allowed to, in fact were compelled to, push the elevator button on that attraction - and so I claimed that it was hardly unprecedented for guests to push a quite visible elevator button in a disneyland attraction elevator.

That one really did silence her. And it was a shame, because I could have listened to her belittle me all night long. In fact, I was a bit turned on by this cold, angry and bitter Haunted Mansion mistress, and -to this day- I can never quite be sure whether she was a real CM of flesh and blood, or a ghostly denizen of the Haunted Mansion.


We were then escorted out of the Mansion through dark and twisting corridors, a backstage tour most enjoyable, and were summarily dropped off at secret door which left us standing in Magnolia Park, just outside the Mansion grounds.

The Park was closed, so we had a lovely walk through a deserted Disneyland. And it was one of the most marvelous Haunted Mansion and Magic Kingdom experiences I have ever had.

yobbie
02-11-2004, 04:54 PM
I have to say...this is the *most* enjoyable, super, stupendous, *FANTABULOUS* story of a guest experience, that I have ever, (including those I've had myself over the last 40 or so years ;) )heard!!
I love it!!!!

CarlieB
02-11-2004, 04:55 PM
iSm: The story's all in the telling - and that's one *great* story! I love it - thanks for sharing:)

ajinterpreters
02-11-2004, 06:23 PM
That was awesome!!!!! Just the kind of story I was wondering about! Thanks

scaeagles
02-12-2004, 06:59 AM
Originally posted by innerSpaceman
Since then, done tons of drugs at the Park and never got kicked out.

ISM - we disagree on many things (every thing?), but I certainly consider you to be a very intelligent and articulate. I post this after much debate as to whether or not to do so, and sincerely hope it is not a violation of policy.

Do all the drugs you want to, fine with me - but to do them at DL is completely irresponsible. There are thousands of children there. DL may not be exclusively for children, but as an adult to use drugs in presence of children shows a complete disregard for their safety. Drug use is not an exact science, and many adverse reactions could take place. I really am surprised that you would do so.

Call me a prude, call me naive, tell me not to preach to you, whatever - again, do them in private, at a party....but in an environment like DL it is simply inappropriate.

Disney Nick
02-12-2004, 08:49 AM
Great story iSm... I think you may be able to write a book in a few more years after enough backstage adventures... :fez:

Bonus points for being on drugs during these adventures...

innerSpaceman
02-12-2004, 10:30 AM
Oh, I was not high during that Haunted Mansion adventure, nor was I high for many of my other great Disneyland escapades.

But to say that people should not get high at Disneyland because of the children is, sorry, absurd. Of course, I cannot speak for the multitudes, but there is no danger to children when I get high.

Oh, and have you noticed that they serve alcohol all over the resort now? It's a little too late to lecture people about altered states of consciousness at Disneyland.


And scaeagles (you asked for it), you are a prude and quite naive. ;)

3894
02-12-2004, 10:50 AM
A reminder to all: comment on the post but not the poster.

Thank you.

-Helen/3894

hefferdude
02-12-2004, 11:53 AM
To say being high, stoned or drunk presents no danger to any guest is absurd. A ludicrous statement if there ever was one.

Getting high on whatever in one's own home on one's own time is your business. Getting to the park while high increases risks exponentially. Driving inside the parking garage is a challenge enough with kids darting every which way. Getting high inside the park is just plain dumb and does interfere with other guests enjoyment.

Example - I was on the PeopleMOver with my 7 year old son - inside the Tron building - when some idiots lit a dope pipe right in the next car. They were loud, raucous and destroyed the moment. My son correctly commented on people should not be smoking on rides and said we should tell them. Assesing the stuation and taking a moment - I replied that Disney probably already knew and we would let the park deal with it. Sure enough, right at the turnaround, some security coats materialized out of nowhere and escorted them off the car - down the ramp - and out through a door. Bravo.

And the argument about alcohol vs. dope in the park is moot. For the moment alcohol is legal, dope is not. But please understand that public inebriation - particularly in the park - should not to be tolerated as well. And DUI's. Not harsh enough by leagues.

Another instance, an idiot guest insisted on ramming our car on Autopia causing my son to hit his head on the steering wheel. After my repeated attempts asking him to stop a CM and two coats took the offending guest away. I got the "bird" but he got the boot!

danyoung
02-12-2004, 12:21 PM
Originally posted by Germboy
I'm sorry. Maybe I sound like a prude.

I don't understand how anyone can mix drugs or alcohol with Disneyland.......What good is the story when you are incapacitated? Don't you feel like you let down your Mom and Dad? :crying:

I'm going to preface my remarks by saying that I've been a road musician off and on for much of my adult life, and as such have a much higher tolerance for people's use of various vices. I will neither confirm or deny my own use or non-use of any illegal substance, while I freely admit that I can hold my liquor. Now, on to the comments:

I'm guessing from the above, Germboy, that you've only been to Disneyland, and not to DCA or 3 of the 4 WDW parks, where alcohol is quite freely sold. Seems to me you're assuming that, if someone drinks or takes a hit or 3 on a big fattie that they are automatically so incapacitated that they no longer belong in public. Sure, you shouldn't be driving in that condition, but a Disney park can be a BLAST when you're under the affluence of incohol.

It's my personal routine at Epcot to spend an hour or so after dinner in the Rose & Crown Pub, drinking a few excellent vodka martinis while enjoying the ambience of the best bar in the world and the music of the charming Pam Brody. Then I wander out to my favorite viewing spot in front of the Canada pavilion and just totally groove on IllumiNations. Could I still enjoy myself without the booze? Sure. But for me my enjoyment is much enhanced by a beverage or 3.

And I don't begin to understand the assertion (not made by you, I don't think) that someone who drinks or is somewhat stoned is by default a danger to children or others around him. Give people credit for a little responsibility. If I were to whip out the ol' bong while sitting in a crowd waiting for Fantasmic!, that'd be wrong. But if someone wants to sneak away to a private part of the park and have at it, what's the harm to me (or to the children)?

As with anything else, it's not the booze or the drug that's a problem - it's people who abuse them. A sloppy drunk is a pain in any environment, even within a drinking establishment. I don't advocate that in any location. But a nice buzz goes a long way to increase the pleasure level, and when done in moderation and in the right circumstances is a totally cool thing. IMO, of course.

SoCalDisneyLover
02-12-2004, 05:37 PM
As someone who has gotten both drunk & high in my lifetime, I can honestly say that you are more apt to be responsible when you are the latter. That does not mean, of course, that being neither is not the best way to go anyways...just that you do have more faculties when stoned versus drunk.

Being stoned may make you tired, and want to sit down and sleep...but drunk gives you total lack of coordination, contributes to recklessly bumping into people, etc. Being high makes you think you can eat 20 hot dogs. Being drunk makes you think you can tell other people whatever happens to be on your mind. No matter how offensive or careless.

There is no doubt that even though I am a responsible person and considerate to begin with...I could definitely more easily get out of control from drinking a few beers at CA Adventure, than I could from smoking a little ganja. But I'm generally sober when at DL, it's enough sensory input on it's own.

Germboy
02-12-2004, 05:59 PM
Originally posted by danyoung
when you're under the affluence of incohol.


I make it a point NEVER to be under the affluence of incohol.