A quadriplegic is suing Disney saying they left him on the Small World ride for 40 minutes while they evacuated other passengers. He alleges Disneyland violated the Americans With Disabilities Act because it didn't have proper procedures in place for evacuating disabled passengers from the ride.Jose Martinez is also suing for negligence, emotional distress and liability.
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Small World lawsuit
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WDWmazprty
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wizards8507
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Rufus T Firefly
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I guess Mr. Toad is not the only attraction that sends you through HELL:fork:
I was on POTC a few years ago and it broke down and they turned off the Yo Ho song.
Magenta Panther
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Good grief, what a story. I am torn between outrage and laughter.
I don't feel much sympathy for the guy, frankly. If he's suing because he had to listen to the song over and over, well, boo hoo. The song is the ride and the ride is the song. If you don't like the song, you shouldn't ride Small World in the first place.
What a litigious society we live in. Sheesh.
I don't feel much sympathy for the guy, frankly. If he's suing because he had to listen to the song over and over, well, boo hoo. The song is the ride and the ride is the song. If you don't like the song, you shouldn't ride Small World in the first place.
What a litigious society we live in. Sheesh.
The story is above and is an easy read. He said he has a disorder that could have given him a stroke due to excessive stress....although that didn't happen...
bgraham34
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Not sure if he was away but the song is extremely stressful and he caused this himself.
I agree. It seems like he's upset that he wasn't the first one off. The Disney CM's are NOT mind readers and would have no way of knowing that sitting in a boat for 40 minutes would cause this man stress. The ADA works both ways, how can one be accomodated if no one knows you have additional disabilities that need to be accomodated. Simply stating "I need to get off now" is not enough (at least in my opinion).
juniorthomas
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Imagining the terror of being stuck in that ride for even 10 minutes makes me feel cold.
Neverland
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Disneyland was doing it right. At WDW, if a disabled guest is on a ride when it goes down, CMs aren't allowed to move them. If they're severely disabled, the paramedics (Reedy Creek in WDW) are the only ones who can touch them, so the guest must wait until they arrive. (CMs call the paramedics immediately if they're needed for an evacuation.) If they've only got a slight disability, then members of their party must move them. CMs also aren't allowed to help disabled guests load or unload in and out of ride vehicles; they must do it themselves or have a party member help them. For instance, if a woman asked a CM to carry her paralyzed daughter into a ride vehicle, the CM would have to say no. Besides, CMs (other than characters) are generally not supposed to touch guests, disabled or not, and on a ride or not.
This guest might have been physically injured if a medically untrained operations CM helped him out.
This guest might have been physically injured if a medically untrained operations CM helped him out.
thewhitequeen
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Disney legal hiring? Looks like they're pretty busy these days. 
wizards8507
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Disney legal hiring? Looks like they're pretty busy these days.
Why would anybody want to work when they could just sue McDisneyCocaMicroMart?
Deadmanwalking
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I would think that anyone who was in such poor health would have the common sense to stay away from Disneyland or any amusement park... It makes as much sense as someone with a fear of heights riding the ferris wheel or someone with a fear of tight spaces riding nemo's submarines. Clearly some worthless sack of flesh trying to make a fast buck... reminds me of the new show where they showed a dude in a wheel chair that made his living going around finding places that he couldn't access just so he could sue them.
A good reason that the Congress should dump the ADA... it had good intentions but has become so abused by the disabled that it isn't even funny.