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Shameful.?ÿ No wonder they don't allow firearms in the park.?ÿ Maybe Disney World could have little league ball or soccer games down there too.?ÿ The parents of the players of both teams could be issued boxing gloves.
Watching "adults" duke it out at inappropriate places might become the latest reality TV gig...
Two things disturbing to me: the total lack of any real security there. Had this actually been a real fight or a serious issue things could have gotten really bad quickly. Once the mall cops got there they didn't even restrain the guy. This is a classic example of soft targets. Hopefully Disney will use this as a wake up call and put some actual security in place. Second is the amount of folks just watching and allowing this to happen. A few good citizens could have easily tuned this guy up and neutralized the situation. I would like to think the good old folks from the South would have rolled this guy in no time had it happened in Florida.?ÿ
Two things disturbing to me: the total lack of any real security there. Had this actually been a real fight or a serious issue things could have gotten really bad quickly. Once the mall cops got there they didn't even restrain the guy. This is a classic example of soft targets. Hopefully Disney will use this as a wake up call and put some actual security in place. Second is the amount of folks just watching and allowing this to happen. A few good citizens could have easily tuned this guy up and neutralized the situation. I would like to think the good old folks from the South would have rolled this guy in no time had it happened in Florida.?ÿ
I had my boys at Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO in '83 or '84.?ÿ Right inside an entrance there was fella that was visibly drunk and he was yelling at his two kids (maybe 5 and 7).?ÿ The kids were crying and terrified at their ogre (I'm assuming) father.?ÿ Their mother stood by with fear in her eyes also.?ÿ Quite a few people (including myself) stood by and watched to see the outcome.?ÿ
When the mother tried to usher her drunk husband to a more private setting he slapped her in the face really hard.?ÿ One very old woman (with really thick glasses) caught him from behind with a roundhouse blow to the side of his head with her wooden walking cane.?ÿ It laid him out cold on the sidewalk.?ÿ It took a few seconds but she got a round of muted applause from everyone that was watching.
About a half hour later we saw a couple of uniforms escorting the drunk to a squad car.?ÿ Later in the day I saw the old woman with the cane again.?ÿ She was sitting in the shade with a sno-cone and happily chatting it up with a number of folks.?ÿ She apparently evaded charges and was quite the hero.
By your description, the old lady was clearly guilty of assault and lucky to escape the charge.?ÿ If she had gotten between them and blocked a blow from the guy, that would have been heroic and justified, but not this.
I agree.?ÿ But "you would just have to have been there" to coin a phrase.?ÿ And I think things have really changed in 35 years.?ÿ What a saw seemed to make perfect sense in a strange way.?ÿ The situation ended swiftly and the aggressor got his due punishment.?ÿ Hardly legal, but there was a collective sentiment from the crowd (mob?) that the situation was handled "appropriately". ?ÿ
Crowd mentality is a strange thing to experience.?ÿ I'm gonna guess there is some human behavior that kicks in when we're all in a crowd.?ÿ I'm pretty sure everyone (including me) felt someone needed to intervene in some manner to de-escalate the situation.?ÿ But nobody felt the need to act until the drunk smacked his wife.?ÿ And maybe taking action would have escalated the entire situation into a free-for-all like in the Disneyland video.
I remember there were a few larger men that were close and fixing to "lend a hand"...but granny beat them to the draw.?ÿ
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Where I grew up we called it "curbside justice".
My favorite Disney/Pixar movie on so many levels is WALL-E. On my last visits to Disneyworld, I noticed these morbidly obese humans everywhere riding these carts around that reminded me of the humans in WALL-E.
This clip is a very predictable distraction from the opening.?ÿ
There's lot going on there, including at around 0:20 the lady in brown cops a blind one while standing side by side with the guy in red. Then around 2:40, guy in red clocks lady in brown ??? Anyway, my next set of hair extensions are going to detachable.
The last I read about it was the family insist that the fight never happened.
