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Another day, another guest foolishly bringing loaded gun into a park
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Parker in NYC
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2020: the year everything we already knew was magnified to the max. Please let it end.
TrainsOfDisney
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“The Guest — 27-year-old Marcia Temple from Georgia — told Orange County Sherriff’s Officers that her 6-year-old son should have been watching the gun.”
Umm what?
Umm what?
TrainsOfDisney
Well-Known Member
She was arrested and barred from property. Unlike the guest who brought the weapons into the hotel.
Parker in NYC
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Well, Disney had actual money to lose on that one.
sullyinMT
Well-Known Member
We have a school holiday 4-day weekend to open hunting season in Montana. I don’t know a single neighbor or parent in my boys’ school that would be this stupid. That’s the opposite of responsible gun ownership, and gives way to much credence to the “ban all guns” argument.
As for the hotel guest, equally dumb and irresponsible. Not owning the gun and driving with it/them, legally. But putting it in luggage all Las Vegas style is dumb. Honestly, in that instance, I was glad to learn that Disney has gun storage/lockers. A responsible owner with a handgun in their vehicle can check it with hotel services in that case instead of having it stolen from their vehicle or feel the need to break the rules.
TrainsOfDisney
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In my response I did forget that the hotel guest was in possession of the guns legally. That’s probably why he wasn’t arrested.
Animaniac93-98
Well-Known Member
#America
sullyinMT
Well-Known Member
While an arrest wasn’t warranted then, Disney should have denied them entry, imo. They’ve been so stellar with other protocols recently, I’m really shocked they let this one slide. Maybe because he complied with their offer to check the guns securely? But the boneheaded move of throwing them in duffel bags instead of talking to guest services first was irresponsible and reprehensible ownership.
JoeCamel
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Didn't this say she was at the MK when this happened? How did she get there? Bus? If a bus then she was a guest at a resort??
Admittedly I have not been to WDW since many of the bag checks/ scanners were installed in their present locations but if she came through the TTC isn't there a check to get on boat or monorail;?
Admittedly I have not been to WDW since many of the bag checks/ scanners were installed in their present locations but if she came through the TTC isn't there a check to get on boat or monorail;?
sullyinMT
Well-Known Member
The first sentence ends with temp screening at TTC. It was just an example of poor journalism equating MK with the huge operation that is WDW. To be fair, it is the parking lot for MK, I guess.
JohnD
Well-Known Member
Technically, she didn't enter a park with a gun. She was on resort property, however. She tossed her gun behind a planter at the TTC before entering temp screening. She blamed it on her 6 year son. LOL.
eliza61nyc
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
— ABRAHAM LINCOLN
She should have stopped while she was behind
Gabrielle Russon
New Member
Sorry, I have to correct you. The Orlando Sentinel, the local newspaper, broke this story and was the first one to publish it. How do I know that? I'm the reporter who wrote it and obtained the police report. Here's my original story. Cheers.
Tourist blames 6-year-old son for how her gun got stashed outside Magic Kingdom
A Disney World tourist accused of ditching a loaded handgun behind a planter near the Magic Kingdom’s security checkpoint had an unusual excuse for how the weapon got there. She blamed her 6-…
www.orlandosentinel.com
Someday, I will be credited with many things I did not say.
--- ABRAHAM LINCOLN
JoeCamel
Well-Known Member
And beds I did not sleep in......
eliza61nyc
Well-Known Member
yes I know it's actual a proverb or a derivative of a proverb.
It's also been ascribed to Mark twain.
halltd
Well-Known Member
How is that legal? Guns are prohibited on Disney property...period. So, having them in your suitcase in a resort is not allowed either.