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

WDW862

WDW862

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flynnibus said:
Two different scenarios.

He wasn't being detained at that point.. which is why when he said he wanted to leave they said 'ok'

BUT they were going to seize the phone, which is why even when they said he could leave, he had to leave the phone.. and when he went for the phone in response to that.. that's when the situation changed, and they were trying to prevent him from doing anything with the phone. The tackling was to 'protect the evidence' if you want to simplify it... Then, they switch to detaining him, which is a temporary state they can use while investigating if he should be arrested or not. The struggle was then grounds for them arresting him and charging him with his first charge (which they later dropped).
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Not sure about Iphone's, but with Androids, you can remotely encrypt and delete all of the data.

If you're going to do illegal , use Android.
 
Tom Morrow

Tom Morrow

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lazyboy97o said:
iPhones are also encrypted (Remember the fight with the FBI?), can be remotely wiped and even have a way to quickly shut off the biometrics.
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Yep, if you hit the lock button five times quickly, it disables Touch/Face ID and forces passcode entry. In addition to being encrypted and remotely wiped, you can set the phone to erase all data if 10 incorrect passcode attempts are entered in a row. It always amazes me how many people decide to not use a passcode on their phone, especially with quick biometric unlocks. Even if you're not doing illegal activity, there's so much sensitive data on your phone. I'm willing to bet Spikes was dumb enough to not have a passcode set up.
 
DreamfinderGuy

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The BackDoorDisney account that is currently up is absolutely not his. He recently filed a DMCA takedown against it for using his old profile photo. The current account is just reposting photos already available online (and submissions I assume), and nobody seems to know who exactly runs it.
 
brb1006

brb1006

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Bigger version of that moment
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justintheharris

justintheharris

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GhostlyGoofy said:
For just the Haunted Mansion it's more likely he's looking at a Hefty fine and Probation.

Who's to say what happens if he gets anymore charges brought against him for other thefts of Disney Props.

And then of course there's Buzzy. If he did take him, Buzzy is programmed to perform "Robot Revenge".
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With how valuable that stuff was and the arrogance surrounding the crime, I'm nearly certain he will spend some time in prison.
 
flynnibus

flynnibus

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RSoxNo1 said:
They showed him those photos in the questioning and indicated that they were able to see they were geotagged to his phone #.
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No such thing.

Your photos can have geolocation info... but apple doesnt add phone number metadata to the exif. The “from your phone number” angle seems to come from the other cast member who provided the photos and (presumably) showed them as msgs from spike’s phone number.
 
I

...it's a yungle

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Goofyernmost said:
PUSH was a contracted outside source. It was the owners property and when Disney decided that they didn't want to pay what the owner and operator wanted they just didn't renew the contract and the guy left with his talking trash can. It was gone long before any of this stuff started happening. That was a show prop not a utility trash can although I suppose that among the large grouping of brain dead that frequent the parks, there was probably a lot of trash that had to be removed from it daily.
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“brain dead” to use a trash can?
15 years ago(?), my parents, wife and young daughters finish lunch at TT. Exiting towards now Purple Wall, 7 year old daughter says I’m finished daddy, holding cup. I said there’s the trash can. She waited for another guest at can, then she threw cup away. We all then heard, “Hi, what’s ur name?” All froze, spinning around...no one in site. Then Push rolled away from wall and struck up conversation with my daughter. “My name is Push, what’s yours?” With a coy smile, “Monica”, she replied. Our group was laughing hysterically, my daughter enamored. After a minute he asked her for a favor, to open the waist high gate heading backstage. She did and Push was heard singing, after the gate gently closed and he rolled out of site, “Monica has a boyfriend, Monica has a boyfriend!”, Monica blushed.
One of the greatest family memories I have in 47 years of visits to that park. When Monica recently announced her engagement, I sang that to her and she loved it!
So thanks for the chance to share that story and to tell you, friend...the trash can was meant to hold trash, all part of the schtick!😉
Now, back to thieves and scoundrels...
 
brb1006

brb1006

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MotherOfBirds said:
For someone who seems to want to think of himself as the Walter White of Disney, he wasn't even smart enough to use a burner phone.

Edit: I also want to add that Spikes looks remarkably like Spike from Land Before Time
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Is nobody going to talk about the way he clapped his hands:hilarious:

"How about this? (claps both hands) "About to walk out and if you guys want to talk, you can contact my attorney. How about that?"

6 seconds later he starts to reach for his phone as if he's trying to delete the photo evidence.
 
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