Man Accused of Stealing Buzzy's Clothing from Disney World Arrested

[ImperfectPixie]

You disagree that it’s hard to steal a street sign off the side of an active highway in one of the most popular vacation destinations in the world? I can’t imagine how it could be considered easy at the minimum.

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When my MIL sold her house, I inherited an I-95 sign that my BIL swiped when he was a teenager. The section he took it from sees traffic 24x7 and I've never figured out how he got it, and he won't tell me.

 

[hosekiller]

When my MIL sold her house, I inherited an I-95 sign that my BIL swiped when he was a teenager. The section he took it from sees traffic 24x7 and I've never figured out how he got it, and he won't tell me.

I live in Georgia, and fresh street signs aren’t hard to come by

As a matter of fact, I know a GDOT district that changed to metal posts because 4x4 wooden posts kept going missing

 

[ImperfectPixie]

I live in Georgia, and fresh street signs aren’t hard to come by

As a matter of fact, I know a GDOT district that changed to metal posts because 4x4 wooden posts kept going missing

Nope. I was in the sign industry for decades. This one was obviously up for many years and carefully removed from it's (metal) post. There is no damage from an accident or anything.

Also...this is from INTERSTATE 95. The sign is easily 3 1/2 feet in diameter. It's also made of very heavy aluminum (not the .060 that's used for small street signs.)

 

[hosekiller]

Nope. I was in the sign industry for decades. This one was obviously up for many years and carefully removed from it's (metal) post. There is no damage from an accident or anything.

Also...this is from INTERSTATE 95. The sign is easily 3 1/2 feet in diameter. It's also made of very heavy aluminum (not the .060 that's used for small street signs.)

Yep. I’ve never been part of any such shenanigans personally, but it happens haha.

where there’s a will there’s a way!

 

[ImperfectPixie]

M

Yep. I’ve never been part of any such shenanigans personally, but it happens haha.

where there’s a will there’s a way!

My guess is that there was A LOT of alcohol involved.

 

[hosekiller]

M

My guess is that there was A LOT of alcohol involved.

One guy was working on his deck and was too cheap to buy lumber, and I guess he was fine with lightly used 4x4s. Probably also discovered a way to “stick it to the man”

The rest, well, kids will be kids and drunk rednecks will be drunk rednecks. Sometimes the two even intermingle

 

[asianway]

When my MIL sold her house, I inherited an I-95 sign that my BIL swiped when he was a teenager. The section he took it from sees traffic 24x7 and I've never figured out how he got it, and he won't tell me.

Those signs fall down/hit by cars all the time. They’re much easier to get when they’re on the ground

 

[Imagineer Mitch]

Did this guy steal Trader Sam?!?!

 

[ImperfectPixie]

Those signs fall down/hit by cars all the time. They’re much easier to get when they’re on the ground

Yup. The one I have is in pretty good shape though. It doesn't look like it was taken out in an accident or anything, and they don't use wooden posts up here because they'd rot in very short order (I'm in MA).

 

[Goofyernmost]

In college, some friends and myself went over to NY State because the drinking age there was 18 (Vermont 21). We stayed in a Holiday Inn. Sometime during an alcohol frenzy one of the guys went out and took down every directional sign in the building. You know, the "to the pool", "rooms 241 - 260 -->", "Exit" and so on. That was 53 years ago. I had the opportunity to speak with him a few months ago and he still has all of them on the wall in his "man cave"** now. It only goes to prove that people get old, but they never really grow up. (If their lucky)

Spoiler: **

People our age, being far more sophisticated, refer to that room as a den.

 

[WondersOfLife]

In college, some friends and myself went over to NY State because the drinking age there was 18 (Vermont 21). We stayed in a Holiday Inn. Sometime during an alcohol frenzy one of the guys went out and took down every directional sign in the building. You know, the "to the pool", "rooms 241 - 260 -->", "Exit" and so on. That was 53 years ago. I had the opportunity to speak with him a few months ago and he still has all of them on the wall in his "man cave"** now. It only goes to prove that people get old, but they never really grow up. (If their lucky)

Spoiler: **

People our age, being far more sophisticated, refer to that room as a den.

He sounds like a lot of fun to me.

 

[Homemade Imagineering]

We're never finding out what happened, are we?

Disney World cold case: Buzzy theft investigation no longer active, police say

Probably not. Most private collectors who own bots, especially ones coming from Disney (which is incredibly rare) never reveal them for a reason. They know they're risking getting caught, and while most privately owned bots are legal, I've known people who've gotten bots from dumpsters and taken them home for restoration (nothing from Disney though, I'm referring to another company). Regardless of the situation, whether bots are legal or not, it all depends on the company said bot comes from, and whether the company has some sort of strict intellectual property policy. As for Dave, I'm not sure why he decided to make it seem as if Disney had the figure at central shops, though Dave himself is an animatronics enthusiast. He actually worked with the company who built animatronics for the Rainforest Cafe, T-Rex etc... so he has some expertise when it comes to working with the technology. Maybe it was a miscommunication he wanted to believe in, I don't know.

 

[JoeCamel]

We're never finding out what happened, are we?

Disney World cold case: Buzzy theft investigation no longer active, police say

Buzzy and Jimmy Hoffa are having a grand ole' time together.

 

[marni1971]

We're never finding out what happened, are we?

Disney World cold case: Buzzy theft investigation no longer active, police say

Those in the know pretty much know - and that’s why they’re in the know.

 

[Goofyernmost]

We're never finding out what happened, are we?

Disney World cold case: Buzzy theft investigation no longer active, police say

If Buzzy isn't already a Disney organ donor for other animatronics we might find out eventually. As stated, someone with an illegal stolen object will not shout it from the rooftops normally, but then again stealing a bunch of molded metal and plastic from a theme park isn't normal either. I would think, what is the use of having that unless others know how clever you were to take it right from under the usually very diligent security at Disney. It is a brag possession. Eventually the person let's it slip, someone hears about it and the mystery is over. Or they die off or go to prison for some other wonderful crime and the family discovers it and shares it with the world. Personally I think that an attempt to steal it happened, but Disney showed up just in time, removed it from a dead attraction and now let it go long enough that it would be an embarrassment to admit that they have had it (as pieces parts) scattered all over the parks. Disney wouldn't care. They had no current use for it and even if they did, it was built once so it could be built again if they wanted too. The whole thing is just to bizarre to even imagine.

 

[ImperfectPixie]

If Buzzy isn't already a Disney organ donor for other animatronics we might find out eventually. As stated, someone with an illegal stolen object will not shout it from the rooftops normally, but then again stealing a bunch of molded metal and plastic from a theme park isn't normal either. I would think, what is the use of having that unless others know how clever you were to take it right from under the usually very diligent security at Disney. It is a brag possession. Eventually the person let's it slip, someone hears about it and the mystery is over. Or they die off or go to prison for some other wonderful crime and the family discovers it and shares it with the world. Personally I think that an attempt to steal it happened, but Disney showed up just in time, removed it from a dead attraction and now let it go long enough that it would be an embarrassment to admit that they have had it (as pieces parts) scattered all over the parks. Disney wouldn't care. They had now current use for it and even if they did, it was built once so it could be built again if they wanted too. The whole thing is just to bizarre to even imagine.

Disney didn't show up in the nick of time. If that were the case, there wouldn't have been police involvement and the case would have been closed a long time ago.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Disney didn't show up in the nick of time. If that were the case, there wouldn't have been police involvement and the case would have been closed a long time ago.

Maybe they didn't catch the "attempted" thief. And wanted whoever attempted it to tell authorities that he didn't steal it. Just some of the clothing articles. The case may have been opened but only partially solved. Cold cases are reestablished from time to time. There is nothing about this whole case that doesn't have a stench strongly attached to it. Sometimes we have to think outside the box.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Maybe they didn't catch the "attempted" thief. And wanted whoever attempted it to tell authorities that he didn't steal it. Just some of the clothing articles. The case may have been opened but only partially solved. Cold cases are reestablished from time to time. There is nothing about this whole case that doesn't have a stench strongly attached to it. Sometimes we have to think outside the box.

Baselessly alleging that Walt Disney World and the Orange County Sheriff’s Office conspired together and engaged in illegal activity in order to avoid embarrassment is more than thinking outside the box.

 

[Bill in Atlanta]

Those in the know pretty much know - and that’s why they’re in the know.

Was it the kid who posted the YouTube video of himself climbing around Big Thunder after hours?

 

[ImperfectPixie]

Was it the kid who posted the YouTube video of himself climbing around Big Thunder after hours?

The assumption is that it was Patrick Spikes...he had items connected to Buzzy and recently there was a pic posted here of him posing with friends and one of them was wearing Buzzy's hat.