We are off to Disneyland to today. Apparently I need to pay my last respects.
Last night, sitting on the couch planning for our adventure, we hear a most fascinating news clip.
I always wonder about the goings on in people's minds. You know, people do some strange things.
Now, this is all speculation.... BUT, apparently some freaky woman decided last Friday to sprinkle some powder in the canal of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland, causing the beloved ride to be shut down for some of day. Hmmmmm. Security cameras caught the whole thing on tape. Witnesses describe the substance as "baby powder."
Read this:
Dearly departed – on Disneyland rides!
The 999 ghosts at Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion have apparently found room for a few more residents, according to master mouse sleuth Al Lutz at MiceAge.
Disneyland visitors have routinely scattered cremated human remains throughout the haunted house ride since the late 1990s with the most recent incident occurring in the past month, MiceAge reported.
Haunted Mansion ride operators, trained to handle the delicate situation, have caught visitors via surveillance camera dumping ashes from the doom buggy vehicles but have virtually no authority to stop the bizarre ritual, Lutz said. Disneyland security and Anaheim police can do little beyond identify the powder trails as human remains. The offending mourners often slip out the ride exit and disappear into the park.
The macabre last rites force the closure of the ride for hours while custodians clean up the gritty ash and bone fragments with specially filtered vacuums. Oftentimes the last vestiges aren’t found until after the park closes and the lights are turned on inside the dark ride.
And the Haunted Mansion isn’t the only affected attraction.
An impromptu funeral ceremony shut down Pirates of the Caribbean just last week while crews cleaned ashes from the Captain’s Quarters scene in the caverns section of the water ride, Lutz said.
Disneyland has yet to comment.— Brady MacDonald / Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
Clearly this woman did not hear the announcement to "Keep your hands, arms, feet and legs in the boat at all times."
3 comments:
I read about that too! It is a strange thing...but not so strange when some want their remains scattered over a mountain, a river, the ocean, or even space, so why not Disneyland? After all, it is the happiest place on earth! :)
Besides, I've heard of even stranger things happening at Disney....
There are several Disney freaks that read your blog - they are probably thinking..."what a great idea!"
oohh my gosh. Interesting. I think I will request something strange like that in my will just to get my husband one last time! ;)
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