If you're banned for life, how does Disney keep track and enforce the ban?

raven

raven

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In short, you can enter the park after you've been banned but if you are noticed they will file steep trespassing charges against you. Most are not willing to even try to enter after they've been served a ban.

In Adam the Woo's case he hired a lawyer to bother Disney for a couple of years to lift the ban on him. Then only a month or so later he was banned from entering the entire Universal Orlando property over his past videos trespassing into forbidden areas of Universal.
 
ninjaprincesst

ninjaprincesst

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thomas998 said:
I seriously doubt they actually enforce the ban, I've know too many people that were given "life time bans" from places that will end up back within months and in one case even got a job where they were banned. Not saying you wouldn't have to wait a while, but I seriously doubt they would do anything other than have you name on a list that wouldn't be allowed to buy APs or things that would clearly be stored in their computer. Given they only take a few points on your finger and are trying to make sure that someone's finger is close to the original scanned finger I would expect their system is limited in the actual number of different prints it has on file and would not be surprised if numerous people had the same coded print on file, but the number is just so large that the odds of you using someone else's ticket and having the same print are very small.... Given the FBI's own internal report said their system gave false matches 10% of the time I can't see Disney having a better system. As for photographs, I'm sure they have them of people that are banned, probably even keep them, but I don't think they are going to install the equipment in the parks to actually do facial recognition of every guest in the park it would be very expensive, have limited value and once the public found out (which they would) would be a PR nightmare when some privacy groups got word.

In the end I expect they ban the person, tell them they will be charged with trespassing if they show up again, and don't do much beyond that expecting the paranoia and fear to keep the person from returning.
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I know someone that got banned while he was in college, (He snuck into Epcot) six years later when he got married his wife wanted to go to Disney for their honeymoon, knowing he was banned he made the reservations in her name, it didn't work , they caught it and called him and advised they were cancelling the reservation and if he set foot on property he would be arrested.
 
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thomas998

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ninjaprincesst said:
I know someone that got banned while he was in college, (He snuck into Epcot) six years later when he got married his wife wanted to go to Disney for their honeymoon, knowing he was banned he made the reservations in her name, it didn't work , they caught it and called him and advised they were cancelling the reservation and if he set foot on property he would be arrested.
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I would assume then they keep the list of people on file, which makes sense. Only question is why would he use his name, clearly he knew he was banned and was paranoid enough to have his wife get the reservations - I guess he wasn't sneaky enough to have her list him under an assumed name as when we've checked in over the years my wife often doesn't stop by the front desk when we check in an they have no idea what her name is other than the one I've given them prior to arrival. As for any ID checks, they only happen if you fingerprint fails when you enter a park.... But that does at least verify the fact that they keep the names on file.
 
JIMINYCR

JIMINYCR

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thomas998 said:
I would assume then they keep the list of people on file, which makes sense.
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And I hear Disney shares that list of naughty banned guests with Santa.

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Christophero30

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Yeah I imagine that would do it. A few years back some guys in Epcot were talking to Mary Poppins getting their pic taken, clearly drunk. When the conversation started getting weird, she smiled, said "well you all have a magical day" and turned away. Well played Mary.
 
ninjaprincesst

ninjaprincesst

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thomas998 said:
I would assume then they keep the list of people on file, which makes sense. Only question is why would he use his name, clearly he knew he was banned and was paranoid enough to have his wife get the reservations - I guess he wasn't sneaky enough to have her list him under an assumed name as when we've checked in over the years my wife often doesn't stop by the front desk when we check in an they have no idea what her name is other than the one I've given them prior to arrival. As for any ID checks, they only happen if you fingerprint fails when you enter a park.... But that does at least verify the fact that they keep the names on file.
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His new bride was clueless as to his ban. She was also furious she can never go to Disney again because of him.
 
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thomas998

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ninjaprincesst said:
His new bride was clueless as to his ban. She was also furious she can never go to Disney again because of him.
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Her bigger concern should be that apparently she doesn't know him as well as she should.... While not up there to level of a criminal record, being banned for life from some place is pretty close because it usually means you did something you could have been arrested for.
 
raven

raven

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Drunk man was found passed out inside the Impressions of France theatre surrounded by Disney plush at 2:30am almost 5 years ago. About 9 Security CMs and management approached him after he was spotted by a utilities CM. He begged Disney not to alert anyone but this was a serious breach of security. Turns out that he was a keynote speaker at an event the next day for a conference his company sent him to. Disney chose not to press charges but they did ban him and he was most likely fired from his company for this stunt. This story wasn't publicized but it circulated quickly around 3rd shift CMs.

Still not sure why he had gathered plush from the France store and placed it around him. o_O
 
mergatroid

mergatroid

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ninjaprincesst said:
I know someone that got banned while he was in college, (He snuck into Epcot) six years later when he got married his wife wanted to go to Disney for their honeymoon, knowing he was banned he made the reservations in her name, it didn't work , they caught it and called him and advised they were cancelling the reservation and if he set foot on property he would be arrested.
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Did he used to wear a trench coat and hang around with the 'Dark side of Disney' crew?
 

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