Originally Posted By imadisneygal Yes, I revoked Annual Passports from more than a few Guests who took that apple. Usually they didn't understand what the big deal was. Until we told them they could either hand over the AP or be arrested for trespassing and petty theft. That, plus they could have been seriously injured by an attraction vehicle, or even without an injury caused a downtime, etc.
Originally Posted By tynkrbell1977 That would seriously be the worst thing in the world to me. Getting my AP taken away! I would cry for days. And that is why I have and will never do anything like that in DL. =)
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove Oh, okay. It was years after I had done it that I realized that it was a theft. I came out of the bathrooms on the Alice side of the Matterhorn in 1968. A friend pointed to a little gift cart and said, "Look! Free balloons!" I went up and took a couple out of a small wicker basket on the countertop while the clerk was helping other people. They weren't fancy balloons. Just regular old balloons, deflated, of course. Well.....fast forward to 1998 and a series of polygraphs from there through the next few years needed for employment at law enforcement agencies. The probing questions forced me to consider that this had been a crime. Unknowing, yes. But a theft, for sure. Bummer. I'm sorry, Disneyland!
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA imadisneygal, you were with Disneyland Security when you took away APs from guests?
Originally Posted By imadisneygal I was the administrator of the Annual Passport program as a manager with Main Entrance Guest Services. So, I worked very closely with Security but not directly for that department. The AP revocations were sometimes done right at the Gate (handstamp transfer, using someone else's passport) but many were also done through Security.
Originally Posted By imadisneygal So I guess I should have typed - "I processed the paperwork and spoke with the Guests whose AP's were revoked by Security for stealing the apple or shoplifting, etc.". Many times they'd call me, if I was at work, and I'd go speak with the Guest and take the Passport away. If I was not there, I'd get statements and the Passport in my inbox from Security. If the Passport was revoked right at the Gate I was usually called out or I got statements and the AP if I was not there at the time.
Originally Posted By SFH >>That, plus they could have been seriously injured by an attraction vehicle<< A boy named Brandon comes to mind. "Experts" estimate his family got $30 million because he "fell" out of a ride vehicle and was severely injured. It wasn't on the Snow White attraction, though, but I'm just giving an example. SFH
