That is just awful!!! It's scary that kids think it's ok to do things like that.hockeygirl wrote:That's horrible! I would be sooooooooooo mad if that happened to me.mindflipper wrote:Worse part, the whole "cheating and getting on rides faster" is really a myth! Most of the time, they force the wheelchair/scooter to go through the queue lines. The only time they don't is when the queue lines can not handle the wheelchair/scooter. Even then, sometimes they still do - the serpentine queue area in the Living Seas with the Nemo ride is not truely negotiable with wheelchairs and scooters, and yet they force us through it every time!
One time at Disneyland all the wheelchair/scooter people could not board the POTC because the entire area available was consumed. There was no space available until those scooters left. Then a boat came in with a bunch of teenagers, and it turned out they had rented all those scooters that were parked there! Had to be 14+ teen-agers - all perfectly healthy, fit (even athletic) with zero impairment - using the scooter so they could get around the park instead of walking! So every time they went from ride to ride, they would block out other truely impaired/disabled guests from being able to ride! It's that kind of abuse I believe that makes people de-sensitized to the plight of people in scooters & wheelchairs.
I almost got stuck in the queue at that big Fun Wheel thing at DCA. That was scary!
The queue for the fun wheel is scary! I almost lost grip on the chair while maneuvering down the slope and around the corners. Plus, they really don't have an area to park the chairs/ECVs and they end up in the way of the other people exiting the ride. I think that was a serious design flaw.
I would imagine trying to get out of that area with an ECV is highly difficult to darn near impossible....