Mad Tea Party Fight leads to Conviction

[disneyagogo]

I haven't seen this posted yet:

http://www.wftv.com/news/15860543/detail.html

Woman Found Guilty Of Battery After Altercation At Disney Ride

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- An Alabama grandmother was found guilty of battery Friday after being accused of attacking another woman on a ride at Disney World. The jury returned a not-guilty verdict for a second charge.

Victoria Walker said she didn't start the fight that day at the Magic Kingdom's Mad Tea Party ride. She insists the alleged victim, Aimee Krause, was the real troublemaker. Walker, 51, says she was helping some children from her Alabama church board Disney's Mad Tea Party ride.

"I was getting in a tea cup and I felt a kick on my right leg and it was Miss Krause. I grabbed her hair like that and I kicked her back," Walker testified Thursday.

On May 27 of last year, the two women got into an argument while waiting in line at the ride. Prosecutors say Walker got angry when Krause's kids cut to the front. Moments later, Walker says Krause gave her an elbow.

Friday's guilty verdict means Walker could face up to one year in the county jail.

 

[rileyspaw]

Nothing I hear surprises me anymore.

 

[grunter]

For elbowing and some hairpulling, she's so not "facing a year in jail." That's total and complete BS.

Probation . . . maybe. But not time.

I get so tired of these trumped-up appendments to tales of scuffles, where the news writer is trying to make the "incident" sound more serious than it really is.

 

[disneyagogo]

The really interesting thing is to read all previous articles about the trial. The defense brought in witnesses from the plaintiff's hometown to attest to her violent tendencies.

I seriously doubt that she will serve much jail time. The one thing that might be at issue is that the woman is not from the Orange County jurisdiction and I don't know how the probation would work between jurisdictions. I would think that spending a year as a detainee at the county jail would lead to more legal problems for the defendant as she seems to tend toward violence herself and jails and prisons can't compare to WDW :lookaroun

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[Fievel]

I don't even see her getting probation. Being that she's out of state, this will most likely be a fine of some sort.

 

[CAPTAIN HOOK]

A storm in a tea cup :ROFLOL:

 

[Hrudey3032]

I don't even see her getting probation. Being that she's out of state, this will most likely be a fine of some sort.

Being she is out of state wouldnt stop her from getting probation.Most likely she would be assigned a parole officer in another state to follow up on her progress.She might have to make a seperate trip from time to time to check up with a judge who may discontinue the probation if she does well.Most likely in this case she will pay a fine,if she is a 1st time offender she might get 90-180 days of probation and/or community service.

 

[scpergj]

For elbowing and some hairpulling, she's so not "facing a year in jail." That's total and complete BS.

Probation . . . maybe. But not time.

I get so tired of these trumped-up appendments to tales of scuffles, where the news writer is trying to make the "incident" sound more serious than it really is.

Elbowing and hair pulling is the DEFENDANTS's version of what happened. The person she attacked was beat up pretty bad - black eyes, bruises, that sort of thing. Where I come from, that'll get you locked up for a while, if you are still alive. Our gun laws here in Florida are such that if a person feels threatened (such as if you punched them a few times, or pulled their hair, or pushed them down and were about to jump on them), you can use a legal firearm to defend yourself (again, if you are LEGALLY permitted to carry). I don't carry at WDW, buy I am legally qualified to carry...never had to use it, but I could if I had to.

 

[Wilt Dasney]

For elbowing and some hairpulling, she's so not "facing a year in jail." That's total and complete BS.

Probation . . . maybe. But not time.

I get so tired of these trumped-up appendments to tales of scuffles, where the news writer is trying to make the "incident" sound more serious than it really is.

I would guess that's a reference to the maximum legal penalty for what she was convicted of.

 

[KaliSplash]

For elbowing and some hairpulling, she's so not "facing a year in jail." That's total and complete BS.

Probation . . . maybe. But not time.

I get so tired of these trumped-up appendments to tales of scuffles, where the news writer is trying to make the "incident" sound more serious than it really is.

The writer is unlikely to have exaggerated. I'm sure that's the maximum penalty for the conviction, which is standard journalism practice. Certainly, if she has no record of previous offenses, etc., a fine and or probation and community service would be the likely sentence. But if the person was considered some sort of threat, the judge could choose to impose the maximum penalty. But I agree, it's unlikely.

 

[unkadug]

I still have this feeling that both parties were at fault here. I find it hard to believe that this woman was attacked completely unprovoked.

 

[WDWFigment]

Elbowing and hair pulling is the DEFENDANTS's version of what happened. The person she attacked was beat up pretty bad - black eyes, bruises, that sort of thing. Where I come from, that'll get you locked up for a while, if you are still alive. Our gun laws here in Florida are such that if a person feels threatened (such as if you punched them a few times, or pulled their hair, or pushed them down and were about to jump on them), you can use a legal firearm to defend yourself (again, if you are LEGALLY permitted to carry). I don't carry at WDW, buy I am legally qualified to carry...never had to use it, but I could if I had to.

I was curious about some of this, so I did some poking around on Westlaw to check out Florida's statutes and case law on battery...

1) Unless she has a prior battery conviction, under Florida law, she was convicted of a misdemeanor of the first degree (why in the world this wasn't pleaded out is beyond me)

2) This will not get her locked up for a while. If she faces any jail time, that will be a surprise.

3) The standard for self defense using deadly force would not have been met in this case.

4) Even if you are permitted to carry a concealed weapon, you aren't permitted to do so at WDW.

 

[disneyfan56]

First of all, I am a 51 year-old woman, and as a 51 year-old woman, I can not ever imagine or visualize myself fighting with another woman-
in WDW-
in the teacups-
in front of children that I am responsible for or related to.

We are not talking about someone with all four wheels on the pavement- maybe 2 wheels and even those are tread-bare.
She may need some supervision.

 

[1disneydood]

We can get her a T shirt... "I was in a fight on the Teacups at WDW and all I got was a lousy fine":lookaroun:lol:

I wonder if we'll see her in a youtube video, fighting Kimbo one day? :ROFLOL:

 

[Unplugged]

'Bout time somebody put the "Mad" back in "Mad Tea Cups". :lol:

Perhaps it's time to leverage that Pal Mickey technology through the use of a device we can call, oh, let's say "Pluto's Collar". When you get caught misbehaving at the parks you can either leave or where a "Pluto's Collar". When the eye-in-the-sky or CMs catch you they can simply zap you remotely. This could give the kind-hearted people who made a bad choice an opportunity to behave and those that are destined for trouble can be zapped by other guests and CMs making for a more magical day! :lookaroun :wave:

 

[MousDad]

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Tea Party.