Worker tosses gas in fight at Disney hippo pond

jd3921fl · Post by **jd3921fl** » Mar Thu 01, 2007 10:56 am

Of any interest?

Employee of contractor charged with aggravated assault

April Hunt
Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted March 1 2007, 6:53 AM EST

A tussle between two workers in the hippo pond at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom overnight ended with one man doused in gasoline and other in jail, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office.

The two men, employees of a Disney contractor, got into some argument while cleaning the pond at about 3 a.m.

One of the workers, Stephen Kim, threw gas on the other man and struck a lighter at a distance, said Sheriff's Commander Lester Allen. The victim, who was not identified, backed away, prompting Kim to drop the lighter and pick up a shovel.

The victim fled and called the sheriff's department for help. He was not injured.

Kim, 34, of Melbourne, was booked into Orange County Jail, on an aggravated assault charge.

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Shinku · Post by **Shinku** » Mar Thu 01, 2007 6:54 pm

Talk about a bad day at work!

Post by **horizons1** » Mar Thu 01, 2007 7:23 pm

Talk about ways to get "fired"

disneylover32 · Post by **disneylover32** » Mar Thu 01, 2007 9:09 pm

That is a very weird story, but rather kind of sad that people would have to resort to that kind of stuff when in an argument.

Post by **js3901** » Mar Thu 01, 2007 10:11 pm

horizons1 wrote:Talk about ways to get "fired"

::comedy rim-shot::

a friend and I were talking about situations like these at work just today. We marvelled at the things people resort to when they get into a simple disagreement and it escalates. It's so sad to know that this kind of thing happens, and on a regular basis. Maybe not so regular at a Disney theme park, but it does in the outside world. people taking a disagreement to the extreme, where people end up physically hurt or killed.

Just glad this fight didn't go THAT far. close call. lucky the other guy got out alive...

jeremyleo · Post by **jeremyleo** » Mar Fri 02, 2007 9:40 am

I'd hate to think of the animals' reaction to this had the guy with the lighter followed through.

Post by **rdeacon** » Mar Fri 02, 2007 11:00 am

jeremyleo wrote:I'd hate to think of the animals' reaction to this had the guy with the lighter followed through.

I think they probably all gathered around to watch. OOOH look human fight!!!! He's gonna torch em.... oooooooo

Rich

csquare77 · Post by **csquare77** » Mar Fri 02, 2007 11:20 am

I work with a lot of construction contractors, and some of them start the day off with a huge fight, like once the guy driving a front end loader was going smash into his bosses truck, So it happens a lot.

Sarah Turp · Post by **Sarah Turp** » Mar Fri 02, 2007 11:40 am

some of them start the day off with a huge fight

What? You mean like "whom I going to have a fight with today" sort of thing?

csquare77 · Post by **csquare77** » Mar Fri 02, 2007 2:09 pm

They start to argue about how they are going to do something, or where they should start. A lot of the contractors are family own and run so you'll have brothers, and father sons yelling at each other. Its funny they start to fight, about 20 minutes later they stop and get to work.

Sarah Turp · Post by **Sarah Turp** » Mar Fri 02, 2007 2:16 pm

That just seems really odd. You'd think they would have learnt by now who is most likely to win and would just skip the fight to save time!

AKLRULZ · Post by **AKLRULZ** » Mar Fri 02, 2007 3:19 pm

Guess hiring standards are really low these days.

Post by **spaulo** » Mar Fri 02, 2007 4:26 pm

for some reason "tosses gas" is a very funny phrase to my feeble, immature mind...

Shinku · Post by **Shinku** » Mar Fri 02, 2007 4:42 pm

I dunno though, there's some people I work with that I wouldn't mind seeing on fire....

lol