Guerrilla Artist Targets Disneyland

Originally Posted By leemac

Funny story (apologies if it is already somewhere else but I couldn't see it in the thread titles):

<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5335400.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ent
ertainment/5335400.stm</a>

Lee

 

Originally Posted By sherrytodd

Um, Yah. Those Disney security bag checks are REAL effective.

 

Originally Posted By moondevil

What a loser. That's definitly shoving one's agenda down the throats of people who want to escape the real world for a little while. Hope he rots.

 

Originally Posted By ni_teach

Yes, so much for the security checks, also I wonder how long it was up before Disney took it down.

 

Originally Posted By ni_teach

yes, I was writting as I was reading the information.... which says:

>It is understood to have remained in place for 90 minutes before the ride was closed down and the figure removed.

 

Originally Posted By nemopoppins

^^"Um, Yah. Those Disney security bag checks are REAL effective."

The figure probably had an AP.

 

Originally Posted By TMICHAEL

^^^LOL!!! until you really think about it. This shows that Disneyland is totally unsafe from someone who truely want to target the park.

 

Originally Posted By BrnardM

What interests me is, if the person responsible is the one mentioned in the article, then why put it in Frontierland? If he can sneak an exibit into the British Museum then it's hard for me to imagine that the placement here was random. Yet it seems to be random or else the signifigance eludes me. Maybe I'm putting too much though into this.

 

Originally Posted By tangaroa

90 Minutes?!?! A strange and unusual object was placed in a planter near a major attraction for 90 minutes before being discovered?

Makes you think.

>What interests me is, if the person
>responsible is the one mentioned in the
>article, then why put it in
>Frontierland?

The only thing I can think of, is that there might be some barbed wire along the fences over there. Probably the one area that looks most like a prison. I could be wrong though.

 

Originally Posted By nemopoppins

Maybe he didn't intend to place it in that spot. Maybe his intention was thwarted.

 

Originally Posted By Kira

but then again wouldn't placing something like this ANYWHERE in disneyland be random? no matter where it was placed?

 

Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA

The Big Thunder cast members probably thought it was just an early Halloween decoration.

 

Originally Posted By corypeterson

Hmmm -- I kinda suspect he had some help from someone on the inside.

 

Originally Posted By gaston lives

90 minutes may seem long, but let's think about this.

If you're Disney security, and something like THIS shows up, you're going to be very, very cuatious. It could mean that there are militants in teh park, or a bomb, or something. I'm sure they knew about it much earlier than 90 minutes, but they had to formulate a plan and get people away from the ride before they could move it.

It was a harmless joke, but in today's world, you need to take all these 'little' things quite seriously.

 

Originally Posted By knoxvelour

Personally, I love it!
No damage was done. It drew some attention to a controversial issue. No one got hurt.
Someone needs to ruffle the feathers now and then or else we all grow fat, lazy and complacent.

 

Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA

I agree knoxvelour.

 

Originally Posted By skywilliams

You know I'm all for freedom of speech and expresion and needing to be informed of what happens in the world but when I go to Disneyland I want to leave all the horrors of the world behind me for the time I'm there. Disneyland is a place that gives me a break from the 24/7 violence that is happening throughout the world and forgive me if I want to take a break from that once in a while. In this case, I think it was done in very poor taste. I mean, come on, do I really need to have to explain this kind of thing to my kids when we are supposed to be creating family memories together?

 

Originally Posted By wonderingalice

^^Nope... You tell 'em it's an early Halloween decoration. A full explanation would just leave children going "huh?" anyway.

 

Originally Posted By fkurucz

>>Personally, I love it!
No damage was done. It drew some attention to a controversial issue. No one got hurt.<<

Except that perhaps now DLR will kick up security a notch or two, which will be an inconvenience for everyone else, except the serious terrorist, who will get by anyway. All they need is an insider (easy to get hired as a CM, right?).

 

Originally Posted By wonderingalice

I'm wondering (as I'm prone to do)... Was there any indicator on the orange jumpsuit to even identify the thing? "Gitmo" or somethin' ... If not, who the heck would even know what it was - if not a Halloween figure.