The story Dave is about how the CM reacted to what I told him. Not what I saw before reporting the incident. How Disney responded to my approaching them. If we need to keep harping on what I saw, that's fine. If this is the avenue some of you want to take, that's cool.
Who was this man? I did not ask this man who he was. No one did. Not me, not the CM who handed tha bag back to him. Not my job to handle this situation any more than I did.
Did he return? Yes. I did not see which way he came from when he returned. I was facing the CM with my back to the theater. The Exit was to my right and I did not see him come that way either. Probably because the adreneline had given me a touch of tunnel vision while I watch the CM start to open this package.
Did he have children? When he came down the entire aisle, he was alone. There was no one behind him. I saw no one acknowledge him in any way. When he ran, he ran alone. He ran toward the Exit and out of the theater.
When he returned, I watch him go down towards the front of the theater and sit next to a woman who was sitting alone at the time. My assumption was they were together.
Definition of running... For real Dave? If he was fast walking, why wouldn't I have said he briskly "walked" out of the theater. He ran. I'm no Carl Lewis but in the matter of seconds it took me to respond, he was gone. Out the door. So in simplest terms, he RAN. Maybe at a 4 minute mile pace, I don't know.
What did he look like? Well, as stated above, he had on a Bowling Jacket with a baseball hat on that was pulled low over his forehead just above his eyes. He had a moustache. Wearing jeans. Did not see his eyes as it was dimmly lit in the theater. Did not see what he was wearing on his feet. I would say he was about 5'9 and roughly 180 lbs. Hard to tell with his jacket on.
And so forth... You seem awefully defensive of this story. I'm in no way bashing Disney here. I love the place as much as the next person. If you have any other questions regarding the sitaution, I would be more than happy to do the best I can in answering them. Although I find it totally insane that its going in this direction.
Finally Dave, there is nothing more to this story. I am not intentionally leaving anything out. My original post stated only facts I felt were relative to the question I was asking. There are no crucial pieces to the story being left out. I'm starting to resent the interogation attitude I'm sensing. It's truly amazing to me that you try to do a good, responsible thing and some have to take it to a personal level. I appreciate those who have acknowledged what I did as a positive thing. And I also respect those who feel what I did was reckless. But why take the attitude that I may be hiding facts or not telling the whole story? What do I possibly have to gain?:veryconfu
All do respect but, shoplifter training at Target? We're not talking about someone stealing a pair of sneakers here. I know what your trying to say but "many" times you stopped them? Not all of them? So your approach is not 100%. It only takes that 1% to cause a tradegy.
I would think that. Of course successfull attacks have been carried out by people acting anonymous. We only find that out after the fact. Nobody saw Eric Randolph, you are correct. But guess what. If he had placed that knaposack by the phone and ran, somebody would have seen it and possible prevented the tradegy. Someone would have responded, much like I did, because it didn't look right. Maybe thats why successfull attempts work when done quietly and those who run, well, somebody foils the plan.
I can't speak for anybody else in the theater but it didn't appear that anybody, aside from my wife and I, saw this man drop the package. There wasn't anybody behind the seat he placed the package and I'm not sure anybody was paying much attention when he ran. A lot of people probably already had their 3D glasses on waiting for the show, like my two kids. Also, I'm pretty sure there were only 2 rows of seats behind us to the back of the theater. It's not like he ran down the front row. I suppose another fact I should have made clear for those who are assessing my perception of the situation. How did this guy run by the CM without the CM saying anything?
Your making very general assumptions. Had that package exploded, I would have been dead, as would my family. There would have been no one, to the best of my knowledge, that could have described what I already described. So guess what. He would have succeeded and the situation would have gone down as, the perpetraitor acted anonymously. Just maybe someone who perished at Centennial Park saw Eric Rudolph leave the knapsack, but we can't ask them now, can we.
But if we're in Philharmagic together and someone drops a package, don't just hand it off to me. Get out of my way cuz I'm comin' through! 
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