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

[GhostlyGoofy]

I think it would be great, if this years Halloween Horror Nights, had someone work a "Buzzy" reference into one of the houses.. BTW

 

[My95cobras]

Just trolling.

I think you use the guise of trolling to cover your ineptitude.

 

[KIGhostGuy]

I would trust what OCSO says (the agency in charge of investigating the situation) over someone who says they know somebody who knows someone.
The sheriff’s office says that Buzzy was stolen and the theft is being investigated. Doesn’t matter what Hoot Gibson said, Buzzy has been stolen.

 

[glawio]

My current stance is "police say he is stolen so I am going to go with that", however, if he ends up being okay, I'm not going to rub it in anyone's face. Don't understand how this became some kind of weird fight. If he's stolen he's stolen, if he's not stolen he's not stolen.

 

[JoeCamel]

I think it would be great, if this years Halloween Horror Nights, had someone work a "Buzzy" reference into one of the houses.. BTW

If we only had a topical humor show for hhn..
.

 

[GhostlyGoofy]

No. B&T was the worst and the actors hated reading those Groaners!!!!!

 

[s8film40]

If we only had a topical humor show for hhn..
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The Animatronicans did a decent job of addressing this though!

 

[Demarke]

I'm guessing it's become a fight because people like Hoot don't want to admit either they were wrong or they repeated secondhand information that ended up being wrong. I certainly understand why most people *thought* there was no way Buzzy was stolen after the police issued a report about the gloves being taken. It seemed absurd to me that Disney could let security become so lax for an area that it would have already known to be a target for thieves. But the police statement is quite definitive that the theft occurred.

People that are upset can at least take solace that Hoot was apparently right before he was apparently wrong. Everybody wins!!

 

[trainplane3]

Let's add some more fuel to the fire:

 

[Dragonman]

If he’s actually there and shows up in the Guardians queue then I’m sure a lot of people will be feeling either confused or happy. There’s gonna be a lot of explaining to do though.

 

[MisterPenguin]

It's not impossible for the two stories to both be true: He was stolen but then recovered and there is an open case regarding the extent of accomplices in the theft. Maybe he was stolen and then hidden somewhere backstage to be picked up later, but was discovered.

Still waiting on a police report to be made public, or an official announcement that is more than confirming something to a journalist's inquiry.

 

[GhostlyGoofy]

I am going to wait until we get some kind of police report or court transcript.

At this point Hoot could just be blowing smoke.

Ensign could have seen a reproduction.

Buzzy could have been returned or found on property after a botched attempt to steal him.

In an effort to score brownie points with the company, after an awful week, T#m C#rl#s could have volunteered to put on the bomber Jacket and will stand in the guardians Queue

We don't know!!!!

 

[Mikey73181]

The actual Buzzy character wouldn't really fit in that scenario would it?

Haven't they said that the tie in of the ride to the park is Peter Quill visiting Epcot as a kid?? Is it possible for not only Buzzy to be in there but other old props from whatever year he supposedly went?

 

[trainplane3]

Haven't they said that the tie in of the ride to the park is Peter Quill visiting Epcot as a kid?? Is it possible for not only Buzzy to be in there but other old props from whatever year he supposedly went?

Anything's possible when your story is centered around a poorly photoshopped image.

 

[justintheharris]

Sorry to butt in on a WDWMagic thread again, but I saw my site was mentioned and didn't want to let questions go unanswered. Hi, I'm John Gregory, owner and operator of Orlando Rising.

You should be commended about being careful about your news sources. One of the reasons I started writing about Orlando parks is what I see as lax journalistic standards with other Disney blogs (not WDWMagic), as well as how often mainstream sources get some details wrong about Disney and Universal because they're just not familiar with the parks. My goal was to bridge that gap: apply more rigorous journalistic standards to reporting about Orlando theme parks and not insult the diehard fans who know a lot about these places.

Orlando Rising has been around as a general local news site since late 2015. I began writing for it a year ago, and earlier this year, we began focusing entirely on theme park coverage. Hopefully you'll hear more from us in the future. As for me, I'm not a newcomer to journalism in general; I've covered everything from state legislatures to health care to two Stanley Cup Finals over the 8 years of my career. I just happen to love these parks and felt it deserved better coverage than promoting new limited-time cupcakes or unsourced rumors.

I stand by my reporting in this story. I'm not here to say anything negative about Hoot Gibson's comments or guess why other sites or newspapers didn't pursue this angle of the story.

After the Patrick Spikes arrest warrant said that Buzzy "was later stolen from the attraction," separate from the gloves incident, I asked for clarification, specifically asking whether it was just reported stolen due to an internal Disney miscommunication or if it had simply reflected what detectives heard at the time.

Here's a screenshot of the email conversation I had with OCSO on this (I blacked out one employee's direct email address, but left it in the general PR email that's easily accessible on their site). Hopefully being transparent about my reporting process makes you trust Orlando Rising a bit more in the future, but I appreciate it's up to the site to earn that trust with my reporting, not just promises. Thanks and sorry again to WDWMagic for coming on the board to talk about my site.

You had to be a pure buffoon to, again, think Disney removed Buzzy and Disney didn’t tell Disney they were doing it and Disney reported him stolen without consulting Disney.

That was literally what Patrick was claiming in his now removed Youtube video and the claim is as ridiculous as it reads above.

 

[AVAC Juice]

In all sincerity, does Hoot really have that much insider info?

You'd be suprised.

 

[Tom Morrow]

You had to be a pure buffoon to, again, think Disney removed Buzzy and Disney didn’t tell Disney they were doing it and Disney reported him stolen without consulting Disney.

That was literally what Patrick was claiming in his now removed Youtube video and the claim is as ridiculous as it reads above.

If you knew what working at WDW was actually like, the proposed scenario isn't all that impossible.

 

[Disney Dad 3000]

Let's add some more fuel to the fire:

He's still firing away on twitter in the wee hours of the morning.

 

[trainplane3]

He's still firing away on twitter in the wee hours of the morning.

Ya what kind of weirdo would still be up reading all of this? Oh, me. Still awake at 330am EST.

 

[GhostlyGoofy]

Ya what kind of weirdo would still be up reading all of this? Oh, me. Still awake at 330am EST.

Dude is going ham on everyone replying to his tweets