Meg wrote a post yesterday that had tips on the best time to visit an amusement park. Depending upon your sense of the absurd, or what strikes you as a bit funny– or oddball, or perhaps pitiful, here’s a different take on when to visit–or not.
You may not want to visit when the costumed characters–those folks whose jobs are to make children smile–look like they are being arrested. Or if you want an unusual scene, perhaps you do.
Arrests are what were happening at Disneyland this past Thursday. Peter Pan, Cinderella, Tinkerbell, Snow White and other storybook friends were handcuffed and put into police vans after they realized that life is not a fairy tale after all and staged a protest.
Even though Walt Disney had an idea of what a Utopian society should look like when he created the Magic Kingdom, the vision has shrunk. It doesn’t include health insurance for everyone any more, or wages that are equal to what other workers who are doing the same job in the region are making, according to this article posted at msnbc.com.
Hotel workers, i.e., bell hops, maids, cooks and dishwashers, are the ones who will be affected by the cuts and are not too pleased. That’s why some of them dressed up as Disney characters and headed for Disneyland’s main gate from the hotels shouting out things like, “Mickey, shame on you.”
While the protest was happening, and the arrests were being made, tourists were witnesses to the scene. I bet there were some interesting stories told to the kids who were taking in the action.
The arrests were made based on misdemeanor charges, and everyone is out of handcuffs once more. Negotiations are still in the works. Hopefully, folks will find happily ever after like this Peter Pan in the photo.