Disney World Scheme: Entitled Families Hire Disabled Guide to Bypass Lines, Says Report

Now this is rich: A handful of upper-crust Manhattan moms have a pricey, secret way to get their kids to the front of the lines at Disney World, according to a story in Tuesday’s New York Post, and it’s not by bribing Mickey Mouse.

Instead, the moms pay $130 an hour to hire a disabled, “black-market” guide, who uses her position—sitting in a motorized scooter—to help entitled families gain special access to rides.

“On one hand, you can say she’s a great entrepreneur,” disability activist Kleo King, of the National Spinal Cord Injury Association, told Yahoo! Shine. “On the other hand, she’s kind of pimping herself out. And it’s outrageous she would help people commit fraud.”

The scheme of hiring out the disabled guide was uncovered by social anthropologist Wednesday Martin, a former New York Post contributor who was conducting research for a forthcoming book, “Primates of Park Avenue,” due out in 2014.

“It’s insider knowledge that very few have and share carefully,” Martin told the Post. “So when you’re doing it, you’re affirming that you are one of the privileged insiders who has and shares this information.” You’re also getting a good deal, as VIP tours offered by Disney, which include speed passes, start at $315 an hour.

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Using a wheelchair or scooter, either with a passenger or without, is not a new trick. A recent Wall Street Journal story documented the trend of travelers requesting the use of complimentary wheelchairs in airports as a technique of getting pushed to the front of security lines, only to leap up and sprint to their gates once they have clearance. “We call them ‘miracles.’ They just start running with their heavy carry-ons," longtime wheelchair attendant Kenny Sanchez noted.

It’s also not unheard of at other amusement parks, apparently. King told Shine that, just the other day, she heard about someone who borrowed his grandmother’s wheelchair for his day at New Jersey’s Six Flags Great Adventure in order to avoid waiting in lines.



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Genesia said:

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OMFG!!!!!! That's not RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ROTFL

Genesia said:

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Of course, the caption for that photo should read (in this context)...

It's a small world after all

It's a small world after all

It's a small world after all

It's a small world after alllllllll.

If I had a Genie in a bottle, and I had three wishes.....

My wish would be for people across the globe to boycott evil corporations for at least one week, maybe a month.

Stick em' where it hurts....in thier pockets!!

People need to wake up and realize how much they're are being nickle and dimed, scammed, or just outright robbed!!

(on my soapbox today)

Genesia said:

Of course, the caption for that photo should read (in this context)...

It's a small world after all

It's a small world after all

It's a small world after all

It's a small world after alllllllll.

Oh you'd be banned from NPGMC in a heartbeat!

G3000 said:

If I had a Genie in a bottle, and I had three wishes.....

My wish would be for people across the globe to boycott evil corporations for at least one week, maybe a month.

Stick em' where it hurts....in thier pockets!!

People need to wake up and realize how much they're are being nickle and dimed, scammed, or just outright robbed!!

(on my soapbox today)

PurpleJedi said:

Genesia said:

Of course, the caption for that photo should read (in this context)...

It's a small world after all

It's a small world after all

It's a small world after all

It's a small world after alllllllll.

Oh you'd be banned from NPGMC in a heartbeat!

You think I was never banned from there? Damn that PP5, anyway!

Genesia said:

Of course, the caption for that photo should read (in this context)...

It's a small world after all

It's a small world after all

It's a small world after all

It's a small world after alllllllll.

I want to see him wear Mickey Mouse ears!

MacDaddy said:

Genesia said:

Of course, the caption for that photo should read (in this context)...

It's a small world after all

It's a small world after all

It's a small world after all

It's a small world after alllllllll.

I want to see him wear Mickey Mouse ears!

Me, too. But they'd screw with his 'do.

MacDaddy said:

Genesia said:

Of course, the caption for that photo should read (in this context)...

It's a small world after all

It's a small world after all

It's a small world after all

It's a small world after alllllllll.

I want to see him wear Mickey Mouse ears!

YES!

Can someone PLEASE photoshop the new 'fro pic to include 2 round "ears"???

(...and by "someone", yes I mean you Imago)

Genesia said:

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"First pics emerge from the set of Purple Rain 2: The Kid's Return."

Could only be better if an ageing Appollonia were perched on the back of the scooter.

deebee said:

Genesia said:

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"First pics emerge from the set of Purple Rain 2: The Kid's Return."

Could only be better if an ageing Appollonia were perched on the back of the scooter.

This is so hilarious I can't even get a little mad.

Genesia said:

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