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A wheelchair-bound man was awarded $8,000 by Disneyland after the "It's A Small World" ride broke, stranding him for a half hour while the theme song played continuously, according to an attorney for the plaintiff.

Jose Martinez, who suffers from panic attacks and high blood pressure, did not medically stabilize for three hours after the ride broke down in 2009, attorney David Geffen said.

"He has panic disorder and that was really what started everything rolling," Geffen said. "What caused the court concern, as well, because Disney was alerted about his panic problem and didn't call for the fire department right away."

Disneyland spokeswoman Suzi Brown said the Anaheim theme park believes it provided appropriate assistance during the incident, and is disappointed that the court did not fully agree.

Martinez uses a wheelchair, and Geffen said the plaintiff's high blood pressure was aggravated by a need to urinate while he was stuck on the ride.

While the other riders were able to get off, Martinez was stuck until he could access his wheelchair.

Half the award ordered last week is for pain and suffering, and the rest is for a violation of disability law, Geffen said.

Brown told NBC4 the violation concerning the height of the counter in Disneyland’s first aid station has been corrected.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03 … -ride?lite


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oh in case you never been there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APmHR2bmQgw

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3 Reply by The Yell (edited by The Yell 28-Mar-2013 03:46:01)

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I watched Raiders of the Lost Ark the other day, on VHS (yes, I still have them in that format) and it’s still as entertaining as the first time I watched it when I was a kid. Marion (played by Karen Allen) has that infectious smile that just melts your heart and gets your guard down. And that was the movie that Americans finally found their answer to James Bond, the archaeologist hero in the man with the big hat, played with such charisma by none other than the legendary Harrison Ford.

But Cinematical read from the recent Raiders of the Lost transcript (which you can download OVER THERE) about a conversation between producers Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg when they were brainstorming for the character Indiana Jones, this was back in the 70s while in the process of developing Raiders of the Lost Ark and how they almost made him a sex offender, which would kinda, sorta explains the past love affair between Indy and Marion.

Here’s an excerpt…

George Lucas: I was thinking that this old guy could have been the mentor. He could have known this little girl when she was just a kid. Had an affair with her when she was eleven.

Lawrence Kasdan: And he was forty-two.

George Lucas: He hasn’t seen her in twelve years. Now she’s twenty-two. It’s a real strange relationship.

Steven Spielberg: She had better be older than twenty-two.

George Lucas: He’s thirty-five, and he knew her ten years ago when he was twenty-five and she was only twelve. It would be amusing to make her slightly young at the time.

Steven Spielberg: And promiscuous. She came onto him.

George Lucas: Fifteen is right on the edge. I know it’s an outrageous idea, but it is interesting. Once she’s sixteen or seventeen it’s not interesting anymore. But if she was fifteen and he was twenty-five and they actually had an affair the last time they met. And she was madly in love with him and he …

I wish I could tell you it’s just April fool’s stuff but it’s not April and it’s not meant to fool anybody.
I guess the movie did kinda imply or suggest that Indy and Marion met when she was just a child.. or younger, whichever, but it’s kinda creepy to think that three dudes were sitting and discussing and deciding this to be the untold background of these two characters.
We may never know for sure but a relationship between a 15 year old Marion and a 25 year old Indiana Jones sounds is a bit too much, don’t you think?!
Unless.. it goes along with the time period of the story, supposedly back in the 1930s and 40s some folks must’ve done it and got away with it unlike some of the teachers that get arrested for statutory these days.
I wonder why George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Lawrence Kasdan felt the need to go with this direction?
Does this bit of information change the way you look at Indiana Jones?

http://www.ramascreen.com/indiana-jones … d-molester

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Actual quote

Marion: I've learned to hate you in the last ten years!
Indiana: I never meant to hurt you.
Marion: I was a child. I was in love. It was wrong and you knew it!
Indiana: You knew what you were doing.
Marion: Now I do. This is my place. Get out!

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Meh, the great writers would have made Marion a boy, with all it's implications considered. wink

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poor Short Round.... another victim of "Doctor" Jones... sad

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lol

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An unnamed Indian takeaway has been found serving wrongly labelled meat by BBC researchers. Food experts working for a BBC3 programme had ordered an Indian lamb curry from the London restaurant but found that the meat in the curry had no trace of lamb.


Further DNA tests concluded that the meat chunks were not beef, chicken, pork, goat, horse or even human flesh, leading to speculation that the "lamb" curry contained dog or cat meat.

The Horsemeat Banquet programme, which roped in a group of young diners to challenge their prejudices about food, found that the meat  in the Indian curry was anything other than lamb.

A show spokesperson said: "The lab is unable to identify exactly which animal this meat came from."

Nutritionist Surinder Phull said: "It's absolutely terrifying because if it isn't any of the meats we know, what is it? Where has it come from? Where was it slaughtered? Was it hygienic? Was it covered in bacteria?"

The restaurant in the programme was not the only one found to be serving suspicious meat. The young diners also had doubts about food they obtained from Chinese takeaways and fast food outlets in the capital.

The beef in Chinese black bean sauce consisted largely of chicken blood and contained only tiny amounts of beef.

And a beefburger bought from a local fast food shop was analysed in the laboratory to reveal that it consisted of bovine blood, chicken scraps and a high level of chicken blood.

The only takeaway restaurant to serve authentic meat was a doner kebab shop. The lamb kebab purchased by the reseasrch team contained no trace of any other meat mixed with it.

Since the horsemeat scandal broke, the Food Standards Agency has ordered more than 5,000 tests and returned 44 positive results showing equine contents in meals..


http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/45134 … -curry.htm

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I love New Zealand more every day lol. smile

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