Security Bag Checks - what a waste

jrc731 · Post by **jrc731** » Apr Sun 15, 2007 12:30 pm

It is the biggest joke in the world. I put a hoodie in my backpack for when it got later, and my bag had other things under the hoodie, the guard looked at me opening my bag then said "OK". He literally didn't even look at the bag! I could have had a whole bomb in there with several guns and knives! These guys are a waste of money and time. They don't even have weapons, they all have walkie talkies and they are all big, fat, old guys who I could out run by jogging!!

casrin · Post by **casrin** » Apr Sun 15, 2007 7:27 pm

They did bag checks back in the early 90s during Desert Storm too. My mother told the poor CM that she had a "bag full of tampons" if he really wanted to look. Or something like that.

I can see the idea behind it, the checks, but I think if someone wanted to do the guests and the park harm... they'd find other ways besides carrying it in on them in an obvious way.

kgmadorin · Post by **kgmadorin** » Apr Sun 15, 2007 8:57 pm

Like driving a truck bomb into the Utilidor system and exploding it underneath Cinderella Castle? If they really wanted to, that would probably be the most devastating attack imaginable.

I think you're right--Disney's security is more focused on large scale attacks rather than someone sneaking contraband into the parks in a backpack.

disneyinfopage · Post by **disneyinfopage** » Apr Mon 16, 2007 8:09 am

...and bottom line, I think the whole "check your bags" security system is all just "part of the show"...

Post by **subsonic** » Apr Mon 16, 2007 10:58 am

Right, that's why I hate it. It gives a false sense of security, slows down crowds, and simply breaks apart the "look" of the parks.

trekty · Post by **trekty** » Apr Mon 16, 2007 1:08 pm

I've been to both WDW and DL within the last year and a half and I noticed that WDW didn't seem to "search" as much as DL. If I went to the checkpoint with my bag opened at WDW, they glanced in and didn't ask to have the tiny zipper pockets opened. I used the same procedure at DL (bag open) and there I did have to open each and every little pocket.

Just a little security side note, when I went to DL I flew out of Wichita, KS and landed at LAX. The security in Wichita was much tighter then LAX, my aunt and I both had our purses hand seached as well as X-rayed here, but in LA they just x-rayed them. I found it funny that our security was much more "strict" then LAX, I would have figured it to be the opposite.

disneyinfopage · Post by **disneyinfopage** » Apr Mon 16, 2007 1:53 pm

I found it funny that our security was much more "strict" then LAX, I would have figured it to be the opposite.

I live south of Boston, so I fly out of Logan... "where it all began", so to speak. Security is "normal", is how I'd describe it, in Boston. Meaning, like you said, I've gone through MUCH more stringent security in other places (including Orlando) than I have in Boston -- where you'd think they'd be EXTRA careful!

Judy

Cheshire Cat · Post by **Cheshire Cat** » Apr Mon 16, 2007 2:28 pm

Anyone who would want to attack Disney property should be cruelly and unusually punished...

(unless the attack focused on the wand or hat

)

Post by **Dr. Ravenscroft** » Apr Mon 16, 2007 3:31 pm

No your honor The invisible cat told me to do it.

disneyinfopage · Post by **disneyinfopage** » Apr Mon 16, 2007 3:36 pm

Cheshire Cat wrote: (unless the attack focused on the wand or hat )

... or the big "Epcot" hand and wand... 8)

Post by **Dr. Ravenscroft** » Apr Mon 16, 2007 3:57 pm

disneyinfopage wrote:
Cheshire Cat wrote: (unless the attack focused on the wand or hat )
... or the big "Epcot" hand and wand... 8)

That's what WAND meant in Cheshy's post, and the hat referred to the one in MGM.

disneyinfopage · Post by **disneyinfopage** » Apr Mon 16, 2007 6:07 pm

Dr. Ravenscroft wrote:That's what WAND meant in Cheshy's post, and the hat referred to the one in MGM.

Thank you for pointing out the error of my ways...

Esmeralda · Post by **Esmeralda** » Apr Mon 16, 2007 8:06 pm

Cheshire Cat wrote:Anyone who would want to attack Disney property should be cruelly and unusually punished...

(unless the attack focused on the wand or hat )

Anyone who attacks Disney should be made to go on Snow White's Scary Adventures over and over through all eternity.

If they take out the wand and the hat (both together) they should be granted free annual passes to all parks for life!

Post by **js3901** » Apr Mon 16, 2007 8:43 pm

Esmeralda wrote: Anyone who attacks Disney should be made to go on Snow White's Scary Adventures over and over through all eternity.

not Snow White, that's too good for them. strap them into the boats at iasw for a couple of years. I believe that they used to use that song as a form of torture, much like they used to use the Barney song...

broncoflyer8912 · Post by **broncoflyer8912** » Apr Mon 16, 2007 10:30 pm

After today's attacks at Virginia Tech, I think Disney should really take these checks more seriously! Who knows how many people could be killed by some maniac who wanted to go on a shooting spree inside the park.