Mickey brings the hammer down on disabled people

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Mickey brings the hammer down on disabled people. Because wealthy Manhattan moms were hiring “tour guides” to help them pretend to be disabled so they could skip to the front of lines, Disneyland and Disney World will no longer offer preferential line-cutting for disabled people.

J.P. Travis: Born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1976 graduate of University of Michigan, father, grandfather, husband, founder and CEO of Travelyn Publishing (http://www.travelynpublishing.com/), and passionate anti-government believer in individual liberty.

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  • Someone just reminded me that 25 years ago my parents accompanied me when I took my kids to Disney World, and I pushed my mother around in a wheelchair while we waited in the lines with everybody else. (She later got a knee replacement and walked around Disney World during the next visit.) I guess it never occurred to us that we should have special treatment.

    • That was before some libtard decided ALL disabled needed to be mainstreamed, then threw them out ofthe facilitiescaring for them.

  • Pretending to be disabled to get skip to the front of lines, Disneyland and Disney World?!? That is just pathetic!

  • Granted, I don't have hours-long lines for my rocking horse rides at events, but when I see an obviously handicapped person that might want a ride, I go out of my way to get them on one of my horses. No charge, ever. It does my heart too much good, seeing them having fun, to be able to accept money for the ride.

    Just last Saturday, there was a little three year old girl who had been paralyzed from birth, from the waist down. She had such a sparkle in her eye, and was obviously fascinated with Vlad, the giant unicorn. So she and her mom got a ride together, and it made me so happy to see her smile. There's something special about seeing a "special" kid smile and laugh.

    This might be a good place to mention this. We're taking a charity trip across the country next summer, 25 cities in 43 days. If any of you live near any of these cities, or knows anyone who can help us find worthy charities in them, please contact me at therockinghorseguy.com. We'll be going to San Francisco, Sacramento, Reno, Winnemuca NV, Salt Lake City, Laramie WY, Cheyenne WY, Lincoln NE, Omaha, Des Moines, Minneapolis, Madison WI, Chicago, Toledo, Detroit, Toronto, Buffalo, Rochester, Erie PA, Harrisburg PA, Philadelphia, Springfield MA, Boston, and Montpelier VT.

    If any of you regulars live along that route, I'd like to stop in and have lunch with you.

    We'll have a fundraising website up soon to collect money to pay for the trip, and all money beyond our verified expenses will go to The Shriners and WoundedWarriorProject.org. Any help we can get towards making special kids smile and helping out our wounded veterans will be greatly appreciated.

    • That is wonderful and like I said, it needs to be on case by case basis with clear guidelines which is what essentially you are doing. One extreme and then another extreme I think is not helpful to those who are truly disabled and can and should be part of entertainment. Thanks for the announcement. I wish you the best of luck.

      • Thank you all for the support. I know I'm going to make a lot of special kids smile next summer, and that's what I do this rocking horse thing for. It certainly isn't for the money, there's not a lot that in it.

      • If this trip goes well, I want to make it a yearly thing and go to different parts of the country each year. Florida's ridiculous carnival ride statutes wouldn't apply to a charity trip, because I'm not charging anyone for a ride.

        I've already contacted the Shriners and Wounded Warriors, now I'm looking around for organizations for the blind, and Down Syndrome.

  • These perks for disabled are abused everywhere. Most of the time by the disabled and their families. Ever look at the line of "disabled" folks in pre-board line on a Southwest flight? They used to let family board with them. It got so out of control, they made the family board later. Unfortunately the "disabled" family member still blocks out a row of seats and holds them for their family. I've seen these assholes running all over the airport before the flight and suddenly becoming disabled and needing a cane or wheel chair at the boarding gate. My airline uses the bulkhead row for them. You get the most legroom available in coach. 90% of the ones that truly have trouble getting around are that way because they are fat and sedentary. Drop the Big mac diet and exercise a little and they'd be cured. Same goes for those premium disabled parking spots. Hey, we're all equal right? You want to be recognized as equal? Don't ask for a cut in line or preferential treatment because you're too effing fat to walk the extra forty feet to get you're supersized value meal.

    • I particularly am annoyed by wheelchair users getting front row seats, parking spaces, etc. If you can motor your way in, that eliminates your need for a closer spot. Those of us who have some trouble getting around, but are not in wheelchairs get screwed. We have to walk from the south forty, no matter how pain ridden, exhauted, or breathless we are.

      • Yes I think that with the advance in technology and motorized wheelchairs and many times they have helpers that push them so in all truth they don't need the proximity. They just need ramps which I find to be necessary and humane, but the proximity is not necessary. I have known a woman whose dad died but the wheelchair sign didn't expire yet and she used it to get herself close to places because she didn't feel like walking. That is just wrong.

        • In Florida, if you get caught doing that, you will be fined and lose your tag. The person who the tag is for has a card that they must carry with them, and it has to match the info on your ID. No match, you're screwed. But, that doesn't keep the fat, lazy folks from getting the tags.

          • It is pretty hard, though many have Doctors who will say anything to get them a tag. Still, once they have the tag, they are untouchable. In Texas it is against thelaw to drive with the tag hanging off the mirror. But there isn't a cop in town (as per the Chief of Police) that will pull them over for doing it.

          • I was told by the doctor that did the last surgery on my left knee that it's getting harder all the time for people in California to get a tag. He said I probably wouldn't qualify, because I walk pretty well most of the time. And yes, I did have to have a card in my wallet to match the tag, even though my tag was temporary, for the surgery.

          • In Texas, I don't think you can get a temporary tag post surgery. I know when I tried to get the ViaTrans (handicapped program from the bus system) when I was on dialysis and post op, as well as post septicemia, you would have thought I was cutting off someone's arm. And they still made me go to the main office (about 12 miles from my home at the time) to get my access card!

        • Lots of people do tht here. They get a tag because they provide transport for Mom or Dad or whatever. But th use them ll the time, not just when the diabled. Person is in the vehicle.

    • The thing is that the truly disabled lose out. My father in law has dementia, he's 81 years old and has trouble walking. We got a handicapped hang tag for the car for when we take him with us somewhere. Problem is that there are so many fatasses with these tags that you can't find a handicapped parking space!
      Have you ever gone to a Wal-Mart? There are about 200 handicapped spaces, and they are all full.

  • Okay... if the disabled are comfortable while they are waiting, I don't see a problem with them waiting like everyone else. If waiting brings some serious discomfort to either themselves or the rest of the people in the line (due to the waiting, perhaps the heat and impatience a mentally disabled person may act out for example), then I think it would be appropriate for the person to come to the front of the line, however they may even be told to leave the line and come back when whatever discomfort happen subsides which I think is better.

    It is best to take it one case at a time on circumstances where it is obvious that the disabled person is seriously uncomfortable or is making others uncomfortable due to the wait. A person on a wheelchair I am sure should be comfortable enough to wait and seriously if someone is in a lot of pain they probably shouldn't be at the parks in the first place so instead of being put in a ride, the employees should probably ask the person to leave or take a break see if the pain subsides before going on a ride. If anything a ride may exacerbate the pain and Disney Co. could be held responsible.

    It is too bad that stupid ass people ruined it for everyone, however I do believe that policy needed to be revised. Going to the other extreme though may not be the answer. The best should be case by case or at the discretion of the people in charge of the lines with some clear new policies.

    Banning/Firing everyone involved is a good way to start. Create clear new policies and see to it they are followed.

    • I am not too concerned about wheelchair folks waiting. THe ones who have a seriously altered gait, or who are on crutches, etc, a jump to the front of the line seems appropriate. And truly, if you cannot tolerate the Florida heat and humidity, perhas you should visit at a diferent time of year, or go to Disney world, where the climate is very different, or just not go to Disney land. As far as the cheaters, I would sue them for fraud and ban them and their families from any Disney Park for life.

      • However if a person is on crutches I hope it is a temporary thing so they probably should wait until they are better to go, I don't see why they need to inconvenience others because they cannot wait until they are better to go, but yes okay perhaps yes they should go to the front but that is very easy to fake, or maybe they should be encouraged to just take the fast lane option and come back later in the day. Someone with an altered gait, if they are able to be comfortable and can wait, they should, but if it is obvious they cannot due to the problem then of course I don't see a problem there. That is why I think this needs to be case by case and at the discretion of the person in charge of line while at the same time following clear guidelines.

        Banning and firing people involved definitely is a way to go.

        • I was thinking aboutpeople with Cerebral Palsy, orformer polio,stroke, etc. Permanently affected. You' re right cruthes are easier to fake tah wheelchairs *sigh.*

    • Yeah, and I hate it when fat people use the wheelchairs at grocery stores and act like their fatness is a disability. No, I won't get out of your way so you can see the doughnut selection! I would be irritated if I was waiting in a 45-minute Disney line and some fat person motored to the front of the line.

  • It's simple, some wealthy libturds from NY figured they could buy their way to the front of the line. My problem is with the Disney solution. They could ban the people who paid for the line cuts, and also ban the people who sold their services. But Disney figures "why should we give up all that money, when we can just punish everyone and still get all their cash.
    Typical of a leftist run business.

  • The 'tour guides' are akin to the BO bundlers who raise cash for the Prez and then do not have to wait in line to fill their wallets with taxpayer cash.

  • Now we know where the Congress hangs out when not in session.
    Really a shame that this will affect those who actually needed it, but it only takes a few self righteous with the entitlement mentality to ruin it for all.

    • Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the militant disabled who look for ADA infractions and then sue businesses of out existence, but letting disabled people go to the front of the line at Disney seems like a common sense policy that makes everybody feel good.

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