OT: One way to get a new Meivici frame...

[MattTuck]

http://www.boston.com/travel/destinations/2013/03/27/man-wins-after-disney-small-world-breakdown/DdVvGJ0Gpg7vX2NcYCA4DK/story.html



LOS ANGELES (AP) — An attorney says a disabled man was awarded $8,000 by Disneyland after the ‘‘It’s A Small World’’ ride broke, stranding him for a half hour while the theme song played continuously.

Lawyer David Geffen says Jose Martinez didn’t medically stabilize for three hours after the ride broke down in 2009.

Disneyland spokeswoman Suzi Brown said the Anaheim theme park believes it provided appropriate assistance during the incident, and is disappointed that the court did not fully agree.

Geffen says Martinez uses a wheelchair, suffers from panic attacks and high blood pressure, which was aggravated by a need to urinate.

Geffen says half the award ordered Friday is for pain and suffering, and the rest is for a violation of disability law. Brown says the violation has been addressed

[Jawn P]

Reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Duv7EGr8Nxo

[toytech]

I can think of few worse things than being stuck on that ride. "shudders"

[BumbleBeeDave]

. . . that's specifically categorized as torture under the Geneva convention. :p

BBD

[Ken Robb]

My first encounter with that ride was at the NY World's Fair in 1964. Yikes--more annoying than fingernails across a blackboard.

Imagine how I felt during my first visit to Disneyland in 1969 to discover the whole ride had been moved there. I knew I was being stalked by a terrible poltergeist.

Then my on my daughter's first visit to The Magic Kingdom in 1978 she was bewitched by THAT ride/song--------NOOOOOOOOOOOO-NOT THAT!!!!

YES! "Daddy can we ride again?" ARGHHHH!!

[toytech]

As an 8 year old on my first visit to Disneyland that ride almost ruined it for me.
Uggh.

[Jeff N.]

Dude probably hears that friggin' song in his SLEEP!

[Bruce K]

Didn't they try to use that song at Gitmo?

BK

[Louis]

Didn't they try to use that song at Gitmo?

Nope, that's against the Geneva Convention. Even Dick Cheney's not that mean.

[oldpotatoe]

My first encounter with that ride was at the NY World's Fair in 1964. Yikes--more annoying than fingernails across a blackboard.

Imagine how I felt during my first visit to Disneyland in 1969 to discover the whole ride had been moved there. I knew I was being stalked by a terrible poltergeist.

Then my on my daughter's first visit to The Magic Kingdom in 1978 she was bewitched by THAT ride/song--------NOOOOOOOOOOOO-NOT THAT!!!!

YES! "Daddy can we ride again?" ARGHHHH!!

I went to the NY World's Fair in 1964...didn't see ya there tho-:)

[Ken Robb]

I went to the NY World's Fair in 1964...didn't see ya there tho-:)

You were too young to enter the Schaeffer Beer Pavilion where I spent a lot of time--------and money.:beer:

[Carl Spackler]

I was twice scarred by that ride. Once at the World's Fair and again at Disney World years later. That song was branded into my memory and still occupies a place in my brain. It'll be there until I die.

[Pete Mckeon]

:p

I went to the NY World's Fair in 1964...didn't see ya there tho-:)