I witnessed my first domestic dispute.

[goose]

Anyone ever been lucky enough to see these? I could go on and on about this for pages, but I won't.

He was yelling at his wife for over a minute. It had something to do with their daughter. I knew it was going to happen. I just knew it. He slapped her with an open hand. You could hear it from a hundred feet away. Two other cast members were present. I told a custodian to go call security. He ran to the Mad Hatter and called someone. A couple guests asked me if we were doing anything about it. I told them yes. The woman was crying. The guy said something like "You're going to call the police on me because of my kid?" After a couple mins they went back to Mainstreet.

I talked to a security guard. He said the guy admitted to it. I think a police report was filed, because he did this in public. I also talked to another security gaurd today. She told me that a domestic dispute happens at least once a week. But she says that during Hoilday seasons it will happen as many as 3 or 4 times a day!!!

It just saddens me. Men like him beat their wives on a regular basis. They also manage to permanently scar their children. :cry:

[Freak]

That sucks, I've seen that a few times myself too. People like that are just...ugh. :evil:

Wife beaters = :evil:

[Weeble]

If this is the behavior they demonstrate in PUBLIC at DISNEYLAND, just imagine what monsters they are in their own home. Pathetic.

[SpaceRanger]

It not only sucks to see, but it's hell to go through as well.

[pixiedust]

We had a simular incident last weekend. A guy had hit his wife in the parking lot for downtown disney, and fortunately for us, an off-duty police officer saw the whole thing. They called out security, who in turn called out Anaheim PD, and he was arrested as he tried to leave the parking lot.

[coldfire409]

Everytime I have had something like that happen I get the 90 year old security guard nammed Howdy respond. I'm thinking WTF if this guy is going to hit his wife or kids what is this 90 year old going to do about it.

[Polar33]

The last time I had to call security for a domestic violence situation I was actually in the park as a guest at the time. I keep the phone number for security on my cell phone for this reason. Although "the rules" state that we shouldn't use our cell on stage when we work, I would gladly get a written for using my cell if someone's physical health is at stake. I see a big difference between personal calls and humanitarian aid.

But I digress...I confused the security person who answered the phone quite a bit, but they responded anyway and took care of the situation. People like that deserve the worst punishment the law can throw at them.

[BirdMom]

boy have security's attitudes changed or what since I quit...

I remember seeing a woman beating on a little boy about eight as they were leaving Pirates, and our lead called security - they told us that there was nothing they could do about it because it was a "private family matter" I'm glad they've changed their minds about that stuff...some people have no business being parents or being married...

[SpaceRanger]

wow birdmom, it's good that they've changed their policy on that. Although I do remember a lead who had that same attitude of "what do you want me to do about it? It's their family." I'm so glad he's gone.

It's really amazing that people will still beat their wife and kids in Disneyland right infront of hundreds of other people.

[DisneyPrincess]

We had to get security because a father was beating his 6 year old daughter for dropping "too much" popcorn on the ground. I don't know what happend after security took him away though.

[VonSeegs]

Screw that. I've yelled at people myself for doing that. I told some lady to stay off her kid after he spilled something in the queue. I just told her that kids will be kids and they spill things.

I also told some guy that if kids don't feel safe in Disneyland where can they feel safe? I can NOT tolerate that kind of behavior. It's Disneyland for Christ's sake!

I figure if someone hits me then my college education is paid for.

[DisneyPrincess]

I didn't mean that we didn't do anything but call security. There were 4 or 5 of us trying to get the kid away before security showed up.

[goose]

I think I would burst into tears if I saw a kid being beaten. It's not like a kid can pack up and leave.

Well, we can always hope that another guest will get pissed off enough to slug the guy. I know I would applaud that.

[Wizard69]

Speaking of bad parents, I was working Guide I the other day and this little girl about 3 years old hopped out of her stroller. The mother threw her back in the stroller and yelled at her "You better stay in that stroller!" She started to cry really badly and said "I wanna walk" The dad then yells at her at the top of his lungs "You can't walk because you're bad!"

I don't know what happened previously, but I doubt it was the little girl's fault. I wanted to kick the parents asses soooo bad.

I felt really sorry for the girl :(

[BirdMom]

I know we've said this before here, but damn - it seems any damn fool can contribute to the gene pool in this world and it isn't right. I'm not saying there aren't kids who don't occasionally deserve a light swat on the behind for misbehaving badly, but the things you see people hitting kids for in public often seem so trivial...Jay Leno is always making jokes about fat women beating their kids in Wal Mart or K-Mart, but I swear, you go into a discount store and there is always some kind of family screaming and yelling going on...

[coldfire409]

this little girl about 3 years old hopped out of her stroller. The mother threw her back in the stroller and yelled at her "You better stay in that stroller!" She started to cry really badly and said "I wanna walk" The dad then yells at her at the top of his lungs "You can't walk because you're bad!"

Sometimes I wonder how we became the most obese nation on the world, and then I read that post and it just amazed me that somebody would yell and scream at their children because they want to walk. It won't suprise me that if this family came back in 7 years or so and the child is still in the stroller because she was "bad" and she won't be allowed to walk.

[TheManator]

Isn't Disneyland supposed to be a "sancutary" or something?

Back in 2000, my dad, myself, and my wicked stepmother were standing in line at Indy, and they had just replaced the pole in the ceiling room, and right in front of us, this little kid, he looked to be between the ages of 6 and 8, was messing with it...and the ceiling started to "fall", and his dad started yelling at him saying stuff like "good job dumbass, you just broke the ride!" and kept slapping his face....my dad and my wicked stepmom started to yell at the guy, and he was like "it's none of your damn business, I'll do what I want to my kid!"...and as we walked, my dad told a CM working on Indy about it, and I guess he called security, because next thing I knew, three security guys asked him to go with them, and I never saw that man again...

[imissRBT]

I know we've said this before here, but damn - it seems any damn fool can contribute to the gene pool in this world and it isn't right. I'm not saying there aren't kids who don't occasionally deserve a light swat on the behind for misbehaving badly, but the things you see people hitting kids for in public often seem so trivial...Jay Leno is always making jokes about fat women beating their kids in Wal Mart or K-Mart, but I swear, you go into a discount store and there is always some kind of family screaming and yelling going on...
HAHAHA as a (i'm so ashamed to admit this) walmart associate i can totally vouch that this is true...also we get extremely bratty children who just scream at the top of their lungs so the whole store can hear and the parent just keeps walking like nothing is happening. i'm not saying i condone hitting a child especially in public...but having a child u can't control is almost as bad of a parent.

[CujoSR]

HAHAHA as a (i'm so ashamed to admit this) walmart associate Me too!!

[imissRBT]

yay go wal mart! i think i saw u post that in another topic and i wrote something about it.