Just out of curiosity I went looking for complaints against Disney. I know their lawyers and marketing team are very good at keeping bad news about The Mouse out of the headlines at all costs, but you can find all sorts of local news, histories, and personal complaints involving Disney and Death.

So here’s one tidbit. Marilyn Piazza is suing Disney Cruise Lines because her 78 year-old husband fell in the bathroom and later died in the hospital. She blames the design of the bathroom and the lack of proper medical attention by the Disney Cruise staff for killing him.

Here’s another complaint about one of the staff on a Disney Cruise who was trying to get with someone’s wife. A tall man, he apparently cleaned the rooms and would try to make some moves on her when she was alone. She complained to the head pursor but nothing was done about it. Of course she could be delusional and the man was a large homosexual with no intentions of having sex with her. Maybe he just wanted to talk…

Putting the cruise lines aside here’s a nice article on Disney World and Death. It covers a 77 year old woman collapsing at The Pirates of the Caribbean–my favorite ride–and some child deaths which have got to be horrific for parents. All they wanted to do was give their kid the best time to remember and then they come home with a body bag as a souvenir.

And lastly, this article has to be the most morbid of the bunch–but it’s hard to resist reading it. Disneyland and Death. ”Unfortunately, he slipped and, as the papers reported, was ‘found wedged between two cars with his head and the upper part of his body crushed’.” That was an incident on the famous people mover which happened in 1967.

It’s too bad Disney has to keep such a pristine image. With all of the incidents at their theme parks and cruise lines, the material would make for a good movie.

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