Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder Cut and pasted from today's Orange County Register: Thursday, September 28, 2006 Disneyland parking toll booths robbed No arrests have been made, police say. BY SPENCER KALLICK The Orange County Register A parking toll-booth attendant was robbed Tuesday, the second armed robbery at a Disneyland lot in the past two weeks, authorities said. Two unidentified men drove up in a dark-colored Porsche at about 3:50 p.m. Tuesday. One man got out of the car, walked up to the toll booth and demanded all the money in the cash box. A weapon was seen by the attendant but never pointed. The man was given the money, returned to the vehicle and drove off very quickly, said Anaheim police Sgt. Rick Martinez. <<i>please see the link below</i>> <a href="http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1291046.php" target="_blank">http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1291046.php</a>
Originally Posted By gadzuux I'll bet they got away with a lotta cash too. If you figure $11 per transaction, and one transaction takes about every 15 seconds, that's $44 per minute, $2640 per hour, or over ten thousand dollars in less than four hours.
Originally Posted By dlkozy I'll bet they have cash pickups though so that there is not large sums of money in the booth. But it doesn't sound as though procedures were changed much after the first robbery. Aren't there cameras at the booth?
Originally Posted By Roger55 Do we know what parking lot booths they were? I would think that the ones at Mickey and Friends would not be attractive to these types of thieves because you are going "in" as you pass through. Also, there is no easy "pull up" area near by, and it is in a rather confined area. If I were to guess, they probably were the one's at DTD. You are headed out in the right direction and can jump right onto the freeway.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss It's amazing to me someone would use a high-profile car for a robbery. I suppose they got away with it, but it seems kinda a dumb thing to do, IMO.
Originally Posted By BrnardM True, and it would really suprise me if there weren't cameras in the area. no matter which booth it was, it seems to me that getting in or out would take some time. They did pick an uncrowded hour though.
Originally Posted By disneynafrica That explains the police car parked just inside the entrance to the structure today around 1pm. They also had signs up that announced stricter security enforcements as you drove in. Explains that too.
Originally Posted By Big Thunder we were there the morning of Friday, Sept. 29th, there were supervisors looking at the outside of the booths, pointing etc. I know there are cameras inside the parking structure, I would think that includes the area of the toll booths also. I presume this crime happened at the DTD toll booths, not the structure. It can difficult to maneuver around inside the parking structure, if cars are coming in, it's a one way road, a huge probability of a collision trying to make a get away. However the DTD booths are pay as you exit, and it exits right onto the ramp to I-5... easy get away
Originally Posted By Big Thunder <<"It's amazing to me someone would use a high-profile car for a robbery">> Don't let that fool ya. Criminals come in many shapes sizes and colors, as well as all walks of life. It could have been a rich kid desperate drug user needing to score? It could have been a stolen car?
Originally Posted By Big Thunder OK I just read the article that was linked [OC Register] the whole article says that in the second robbery a light colored Toyota Camry was used. Again could be stolen?
Originally Posted By GalDisney What! You have got to be kidding! Robbing a DIsney parking booth?? Jees!
Originally Posted By SleepingBeauty82 Here's another link from NBC4.tv on the story. Now they have video of it happening: <a href="http://www.nbc4.tv/news/9986113/detail.html" target="_blank">http://www.nbc4.tv/news/998611 3/detail.html</a>
