Has anyone ever had an altercation with another guest and/or family while at WDW?

[disneyjunkie]

Just a comment about the pictures:

DW likes to take pictures of the characters. We dont need to meet them, not that we would mind, but we have NO intention of waiting in line to meet them. She just wants a pic of the character. Some child meeting the character is no problem for us. We understand that small children really enjoy meeting the characters. So if a child is meeting a character, she will just take a pic of the character she wants with whatever child is there.

I'm like your wife. I want the pictures but my son will not wait in line.

I stand to the side and wait for a break. I snap a few pictures while one child is leaving and the next is running up.

This allows me to get the photos I want, but not have parents worry about me taking pictures of their kid.

 

[jj1403]

I'm another guilty one who uses the handicap stall when I have both of my kids. I don't think twice about using it either.

 

[perkinsrose]

Like others have mentioned...
Parking spaces say "Handicapped Reserved"
Bathroom stalls are "Accessible" not reserved.

 

[Nanu57v]

How horrible.

Like another poster - I'm guilty of using the handicapped stall. I have small childen - and if it is the only stall available, and there isn't a handicapped person there, I will take them in there before they have an accident. It has never crossed my mind that someone would get that angry about that. And regardless - if they felt inconvenienced, they certainly could have voiced it without being so hateful. It is sad that there are hateful people everywhere. I'm glad the magic is back.

On a side note - how wonderful that your son is doing well!

And a lot of times the handicap stalls are the ones with the baby changing stations and the baby seats with seatbelts (so you can pee without your kid trying to crawl out under the stall.


This thread has been so entertaining!

We had the same situation on our trip with the MK stage show. Someone was sitting next to the stroller and stood up to start filming. And then people were yelling at her to sit down. I didn't say anything because she really wasn't obstructing my family's view (although the balloon tied to her stroller was), but I was surprised how upset I got just because it wasn't fair!

 

[livndisney]

If I saw a child I wanted to take a picture of in a public place, I wouldn't think twice of snapping the shot.

I do not understand the "asking them to stop". What harm could come from a simple photo?

To get back on topic, my husband was smothered in poo by a little kid and the parents never apologized for what their little angel did. She stuck her had in her pants, pulled out poo and rubbed in on my husband's shorts.

He was too busy ripping his shorts off and tossing them in the trash (and I was gagging) to confront them.

Just FYI,

Disney has a "policy" for this. We had a situation where a "person" was openly taking pictures of the children in our group. We asked them to stop. They refused and went balistic. A CM called security. Security asked what happened we explained about the pictures. Security asked to see the pictures on the camera. Confirmed they had pictures of our children. Security asked them to delete the pictures. I spoke with the Security guard who told me they are getting more of these complaints and have actually had to remove people from the park over it.

 

[Mouse House Mama]

If I saw a child I wanted to take a picture of in a public place, I wouldn't think twice of snapping the shot.I do not understand the "asking them to stop". What harm could come from a simple photo?

To get back on topic, my husband was smothered in poo by a little kid and the parents never apologized for what their little angel did. She stuck her had in her pants, pulled out poo and rubbed in on my husband's shorts.

He was too busy ripping his shorts off and tossing them in the trash (and I was gagging) to confront them.

Why would you want a picture of someone else's child?

 

[DiznEeyore]

Why would you want a picture of someone else's child?

I agree. That's just creepy.

 

[Goofydiane]

I was at Disneyland with from friend who is confined to a wheelchair and she loves watching the fireworks. She goes and gets ready for the fireworks 90 minutes before they start and I was with her and stood behind her wheelchair. We were close to the castle, but behind the area that is sit down only. We verified with a cast member that is was ok for me to stand during the show and the cast member confirmed that this is a standing area. Well about 30 minutes before the show, people about 20 people back asked if I was going to sit down before the show started. I politely indicated that no, I was going to remain standing and had already been standing for 60 minutes.

Yep, you guessed it, as soon as the show started, the 'down in front' screams came. There were about 10 of us standing and no one sat down, but the screams continued. I felt bad for the people filming the show that night. Afterwords a lady came up with a sleeping child in a stroller and started yelling at me that her child could only see my back the entire time of the show and all her pictures were of my white sweatshirt. Their party was about 10 feet behind me and I somewhat politely said, your child is asleep I think the reason the didn't see the fireworks is because their eyes are closed. She continued to rant and say that I ruined the show for them because they couldn't see the fireworks. I not so politely this time said 'I'm 5'9" and the fireworks are quite high in the sky, surely you didn't have a problem looking up to the sky from your position 10 feet behind me.'. My friend and I started leaving and she came after me one more time and I finally said. I told you I was going to remain standing, what did you want me to do, sit down behind my friend's wheelchair so I wouldn't be able to see the fireworks? She said yes, I couldn't see them and Disney is for kids and you ruined it for me. I said, if Disney is for kids, then I didn't ruin anything for you, you are an adult and the only one who may be disappointed is your sleeping child who missed the show because they were tired and asleep, not because they couldn't look up in the sky. She proceeded to call me a b**** as I walked away getting louder and louder the further away I got. My friend and I had a good chuckle over it as we saw them being escorted away by security a few minutes later.

 

[disneyjunkie]

I was at Disneyland with from friend who is confined to a wheelchair and she loves watching the fireworks. She goes and gets ready for the fireworks 90 minutes before they start and I was with her and stood behind her wheelchair. We were close to the castle, but behind the area that is sit down only. We verified with a cast member that is was ok for me to stand during the show and the cast member confirmed that this is a standing area. Well about 30 minutes before the show, people about 20 people back asked if I was going to sit down before the show started. I politely indicated that no, I was going to remain standing and had already been standing for 60 minutes.

Yep, you guessed it, as soon as the show started, the 'down in front' screams came. There were about 10 of us standing and no one sat down, but the screams continued. I felt bad for the people filming the show that night. Afterwords a lady came up with a sleeping child in a stroller and started yelling at me that her child could only see my back the entire time of the show and all her pictures were of my white sweatshirt. Their party was about 10 feet behind me and I somewhat politely said, your child is asleep I think the reason the didn't see the fireworks is because their eyes are closed. She continued to rant and say that I ruined the show for them because they couldn't see the fireworks. I not so politely this time said 'I'm 5'9" and the fireworks are quite high in the sky, surely you didn't have a problem looking up to the sky from your position 10 feet behind me.'. My friend and I started leaving and she came after me one more time and I finally said. I told you I was going to remain standing, what did you want me to do, sit down behind my friend's wheelchair so I wouldn't be able to see the fireworks? She said yes, I couldn't see them and Disney is for kids and you ruined it for me. I said, if Disney is for kids, then I didn't ruin anything for you, you are an adult and the only one who may be disappointed is your sleeping child who missed the show because they were tired and asleep, not because they couldn't look up in the sky. She proceeded to call me a b**** as I walked away getting louder and louder the further away I got. My friend and I had a good chuckle over it as we saw them being escorted away by security a few minutes later.

Why didn't you sit next to your friend?

I can understand why the people behind you were upset.

 

[Goofydiane]

Why didn't you sit next to your friend?

I can understand why the people behind you were upset.

There was a wheel chair on one side of her and a family with two stollers on the other side of her.

 

[livndisney]

Why didn't you sit next to your friend?

I can understand why the people behind you were upset.

I can't.

Originally Posted by Goofydiane
I was at Disneyland with from friend who is confined to a wheelchair and she loves watching the fireworks. She goes and gets ready for the fireworks 90 minutes before they start and I was with her and stood behind her wheelchair. We were close to the castle, but behind the area that is sit down only. We verified with a cast member that is was ok for me to stand during the show and the cast member confirmed that this is a standing area. Well about 30 minutes before the show, people about 20 people back asked if I was going to sit down before the show started. I politely indicated that no, I was going to remain standing and had already been standing for 60 minutes.

Yep, you guessed it, as soon as the show started, the 'down in front' screams came. There were about 10 of us standing and no one sat down, but the screams continued. I felt bad for the people filming the show that night. Afterwords a lady came up with a sleeping child in a stroller and started yelling at me that her child could only see my back the entire time of the show and all her pictures were of my white sweatshirt. Their party was about 10 feet behind me and I somewhat politely said, your child is asleep I think the reason the didn't see the fireworks is because their eyes are closed. She continued to rant and say that I ruined the show for them because they couldn't see the fireworks. I not so politely this time said 'I'm 5'9" and the fireworks are quite high in the sky, surely you didn't have a problem looking up to the sky from your position 10 feet behind me.'. My friend and I started leaving and she came after me one more time and I finally said. I told you I was going to remain standing, what did you want me to do, sit down behind my friend's wheelchair so I wouldn't be able to see the fireworks? She said yes, I couldn't see them and Disney is for kids and you ruined it for me. I said, if Disney is for kids, then I didn't ruin anything for you, you are an adult and the only one who may be disappointed is your sleeping child who missed the show because they were tired and asleep, not because they couldn't look up in the sky. She proceeded to call me a b**** as I walked away getting louder and louder the further away I got. My friend and I had a good chuckle over it as we saw them being escorted away by security a few minutes later.

Looks like the complainer just wanted to complain. This seems similar to the post about the woman complaining on the airplane. The family had paid for a seat for their child and carseat. The flight attendant explained to the complainer the family was doing nothing wrong. Complainer still complained. Here the poster asked if standing was ok and was told by a CM that it was. As the complainer was escorted away by security, it would seem Disney had a problem with the complainers behavior.

 

[cathy_s]

I also have a disabled stall story from MK. I wonder if it was the same person!

A woman in a power chair drove her chair into the door of the stall to make her point that I was annoying her. She was outside the stall (did NOT see me enter) and was yelling at me because I was in a stall for the disabled. It wasn't right to use that stall, it was rude of me to be in there when others were available, she needed to use it, etc.

It proves the point that one should know the whole story before making a judgment....I was in the stall to assist my DD who is disabled and needed/needs assistance in the bathroom. I ignored her and finished with DD.

The woman had to back her chair out of the way so we could exit the stall. In addition to other disabilites, DD is vision impaired and wasn't able to navigate around the power chair.

This would be the part of the story where she apologizes-right? Nope. Not one word came out of her previously overactive mouth! DD inflicted speechlessness on her!

We can only hope that it was the same person and maybe being wrong about me got her thinking that she could have been wrong about you.

 

[meowmarie]

If I saw a child I wanted to take a picture of in a public place, I wouldn't think twice of snapping the shot.

I do not understand the "asking them to stop". What harm could come from a simple photo?

One picture might have been fine, but it sounded like there were multiple people taking shot after shot, that's just creepy! You never know what a crazy person might do with pictures of your children these days either. Our DD3 is our foster daughter (soon to be adopted but that's another story ) and we actually aren't allowed to purposely post pictures of her on the web or newspapers, etc. We have to take her out in public of course, and I'm sure she might end up in the background of photos, but if I ever saw a stranger purposely taking her photograph I would definitely remove her from the situation if not ask them to stop.

 

[Canusa Family]

If I saw a child I wanted to take a picture of in a public place, I wouldn't think twice of snapping the shot.

I do not understand the "asking them to stop". What harm could come from a simple photo?

To get back on topic, my husband was smothered in poo by a little kid and the parents never apologized for what their little angel did. She stuck her had in her pants, pulled out poo and rubbed in on my husband's shorts.

He was too busy ripping his shorts off and tossing them in the trash (and I was gagging) to confront them.

Wow Id hate to be you if my wife caught you taking pictures of our daughter.Me I would not mind so much.It is kinda creepy.

 

[xmas16]

I have also used handicapped stalls when taking my children in with me. I never for one minute thought that these stalls were "reserved" for handicap only. It is not like a parking spot. Youre not going to get fined if you take a seat. If there is a line, whoever is next takes the next available spot and if that happens to be a handicap stall thats what you get. Of course, I wouldnt use it if there was other stalls available and didnt have a need. Am I wrong on the rules?

100% agree with you

 

[RMulieri]

If I saw a child I wanted to take a picture of in a public place, I wouldn't think twice of snapping the shot.

I do not understand the "asking them to stop". What harm could come from a simple photo?

To get back on topic, my husband was smothered in poo by a little kid and the parents never apologized for what their little angel did. She stuck her had in her pants, pulled out poo and rubbed in on my husband's shorts.

He was too busy ripping his shorts off and tossing them in the trash (and I was gagging) to confront them.

You truly don't know where these photos end up.When we lived in SC in a townhome development we lived next door to this really nice couplewith 2 kids.he was always out and about taking pictures of kids ,animals etc.He was really nice and nonthreatening the neighborhood kids loved him and his family.2 years later and the cops show up, he had several thousand pics of kids on his darkroom wall, some of which were neighbor children taken with a zoom lens thru windows etc.He was busted for child porn.

 

[parmtoo]

You truly don't know where these photos end up.When we lived in SC in a townhome development we lived next door to this really nice couplewith 2 kids.he was always out and about taking pictures of kids ,animals etc.He was really nice and nonthreatening the neighborhood kids loved him and his family.2 years later and the cops show up, he had several thousand pics of kids on his darkroom wall, some of which were neighbor children taken with a zoom lens thru windows etc.He was busted for child porn.

And THIS, is my biggest fear. Raising our children we teach them to tell us everything, be safe, stay w/ mom & dad, don't talk to strangers, ect. But, oh if we are on vacation and someone you don't know wants to take your picture, then thats ok?
It's a parents job to protect their children and if that means telling creepy people to NOT takes pics of my kids, then so be it.

 

[Teacher03]

100% agree with you

ITA! I think the next person in line gets the next available stall, whether it is handicapped or not. If the person behind me was obviously waiting for the handicapped stall I wouldn't go in it, but if not, in I go.

 

[RMulieri]

And THIS, is my biggest fear. Raising our children we teach them to tell us everything, be safe, stay w/ mom & dad, don't talk to strangers, ect. But, oh if we are on vacation and someone you don't know wants to take your picture, then thats ok?
It's a parents job to protect their children and if that means telling creepy people to NOT takes pics of my kids, then so be it.

I agree.I would have no problem telling someone to stop taking pics of my kid.Heck, I wouldn't even let the daycare use her picture in their advertisements on the internet,billboards etc.

 

[snugglepeas]

One night I was on a totally packed pop century bus coming back for the magic kingdom and we had a trainee driving the bus, well I was sitting in the front of the bus with a clear view of the road, when all of the sudden a mini van got in our lane and slammed on his breaks, causing the bus driver to have to slam on his breaks as not to hit the van, so everyone was jerked a little forward, well when we got back to pop this woman that was standing at the back of the bus started verbally abusing the bus driver, so being the person that I am I could not just sit by and let this man get screamed at for something that was not his fault and had he not hit the breaks it would have caused a large accident.