In case you haven't seen or heard about this news article, a man recently sued Disney World for being stuck on the "It's a Small World" ride for, get this, 30 minutes.
Granted, he is handicapped (in a wheel chair), so life is harder as a whole for him. And also, he only won $8,000, which doesn't seem like too obscene of an amount. And additionaly, the ride didn't have any way for him to get off of it when it was stuck, but everyone else (not in a wheelchair) did have a way off. So maybe it wasn't really too bad of a judgement. I've certainly heard of worse.
But then again, I was stuck on that ride before too, for at least 30 minutes, if not longer. And the amount of time that people have to wait just to get on that ride on a normal Disney day can be more than an hour. Did I mention that that stupid freaking song plays over and over the whole time when you're waiting AND when on the ride? Over and over. And over. Again. *It's a small world after all...* AAAAAaaaaggggghhhhh!! I never thought of suing them though, I was just annoyed and thought that I have no desire to ever get on that ride again - EVER. I'm sure I'll swallow those words for my kids some day though, if we finally decide to waste thousands of dollars to take them there, and if they want to experience the unjustified hype.
As a final thought though, if a lawsuit and negative press is what it takes to get them to get their act together with that pathetic excuse for a ride, then maybe it's for the best in the long run. Maybe the experience won't be as bad if/when one day I'm persuaded to *take my kids there after all * (singing the song).
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