I cannot believe this!

On the other hand, why shouldn't I?

http://www.northwestohio.com/news/story.aspx?id=897676#.UZKkprXIVRE

Then they wonder why parks change their policies dealing with disabilities...

Why does Disney let them cut the line? Why is there no waiting?

The mother in the article sounds like she is one of those stuck up people who only look out for themselves.

This is a joke, I can't believe that people would fake a disabled person just to ride a ride but I can believe it.

They do it in airports to get escorted to gates, too. At least some do. Should be a crime....

The way I understood the article, no one is faking a disability. They're only faking that the actually disabled person is a member of their family/party. Or at least that's how I read it.

In this instance, yes. But it IS done.

We were referring to the stricken language above. And the Disney policy requires only that the other riders be in the disabled person's group, not family in particular.

This morning on the "Today" show, around 7:30 AM, they ran a story on the instance of disabled people selling their services as a means to get onto rides without waiting in line to families.  As an experiment, a crew hired a guide to see what would happen at DL.  The result--despite Disney knowing about the practice, the crew was backdoored or put into the FP line on EVERY attraction they visited,  Needless to say when the footage was sent to Disney, they were none too pleased.  The guide in question has been bannred from the park and the company he works for is now being investigated internally by Disney. 

 

The reporter then interviewed the owner of the company who said she was just selling a service that people wanted.  The guide was also interviewed, saying that despite his ban, he would continue to go to the park and expressed no remorse for what he did, saying he intends to do it over and over.  Knowing the Mouse, I expect a swift crackdown on this practice immediately.  Interestingly, there was no mention of what would happen to guests who were caught using the service.

Edit: Here is the link to the story:http://www.today.com/news/undercover-disney-deplorable-scheme-skip-lines-6C10131266

Edited May 31, 201313 yr by Gabe

Of interest:

Network/Owner/parks owned

NBC/Comcast/Universal

ABC/Disney/Disney

Nah, no self interest on NBC's/Comcast's/ Universal's part.

Of course not.

Convenient how they bring up this investigation a couple weeks after the situation was first made known - right at the start of peak Orlando tourism season.