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Weird Vintage Disneyland Tragedies

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0:00 well that's what I'm saying about 100t straight you think he did Aang bang pinball [Music] down I forgot to address this because um I got used to it but Aaron is not in fact bleeding on her face that's makeup she had from a Halloween thing the night before yeah it it won't come off guys where's where's the rest of it yeah here and then it's the big gash here I was Riding Hood and then I died yeah I I didn't survive I was unived sorry that I I completely forgot to say something if you're concerned for her she's okay I really tried thank you for your I wanted to talk about is I know Aaron you're like a big Disney adult that's a problem but I wanted to we've talked about

0:50 daisyland on here a few times and just like shared some interesting facts but I wanted to share some vintage Disneyland tragedies that I thought were really interesting me these are like the ones that happened like way back not the ones that like you know currently the problems we're dealing with now these are all like from a lot of these are from old rides or old versions of rides uh the first one is called the America Sings incident do you know about that one there used to be an attraction in Disneyland back in 19 uh 74 and it was a rotating stage where it would be like a circular stage and you're watching from this side and then when the program switches the next scene the stage turns in a circle and then these guys the Carousel of Progress yeah it's like yeah exactly the Carousel and then um one of the workers I guess there's a tiny space in between where the walls turn and she somehow like either like misstepped or something went wrong and she like ended

1:41 up in between the walls and couldn't get out and then the stage rotated and it just smashed her and she was actually alive the first rotation was screaming for help but nobody could hear her so it it kept rotating through the program could you imagine hearing all of that wait what was it called America sing just you just hear the Star Spangled Banner as you're slowly getting crushed to death it's gnarly yeah so she uh yeah they didn't hear her so her family they got paid a settlement and then Disney changed the carpet and walls and reopened the ride two two days later wow that a grieving time and then uh that was a pretty interesting one and then in in 1981 uh in Tomorrowland a guy pinched some girls butt and her boyfriend stabbed him to death

2:33 deserved and then the victim's family uh sued Disneyland for 60 mil did they win but not not the guy yeah no they just Su Disneyland uh they ended up getting 600k uh because of the Park's inadequate emergency response the weapons he's not supposed to have a weapon no it wasn't even that oh really that's what I think it yeah like how did you even get through the lake exactly they have the fire department there it was it was mainly because they didn't uh I guess they tried to handle it with their in Park Medical Team but they I think for stuff like that you're supposed to get the outside medical attention cuz yeah the guy died I could have I mean if I was a lawyer which I'm not clearly but if I was that would be my first angle that they're incompetent with checking for

3:23 safety exactly maybe maybe in the ' 80s yeah that too maybe in the ' 80s everyone just had KN yeah probably probably that said could have been in the wife's hair yeah could have been in the wife's hair you're right the maybe maybe uh stabbed him with a corn dog stick or something he sharpen the wood broke it in half and just yeah you can put it in your bun or something Turkey Leg this one's pretty funny in well I already said it's too late 1976 a woman sued Disneyland after she claimed a costume character dressed as one of the Three Little Pigs approached her grabbed and fondled her breasts while shouting Mommy Mommy like I don't think that person works here that's s that's kind of funny that's s and she won that's kind of funny she won like oh I don't think he

4:15 works here yeah exactly like really like Mommy Mommy Mommy just as the pig like what why as the pig yeah also like it just sucks to be the victim of that cuz then you have to tell that story you're traumatized but also like could you imagine just seeing it happen though you want try to like explain it to your therapist and they're like tell me about how you feel like well I have this re crane nightmare that this pig has comes to life me f me like so she she claimed to have gained 50 lbs because of the incident and sued Disneyland for 150k come on and she won no so what happened is uh the Disney lawyers brought the costume and showed that that exact costume she says did it doesn't even have arms that you can do that with cuz they're stubby and to the

5:05 side and they're not they're not they're not arms you can control she picked the wrong character she dropped the lawsuit she probably just got caught I'm dead so the the the piggy probably just moved to the right and it touched the the titties you still believe her huh want to talk about the side boob I was it the side boob and then the piggy was probably like trying to jump up and down for the kid but the mom was like oh instead of moving the mom was just stuck there like oh oh you fing my T mate Australia austral mate that's ████ C I believe her now dude how did you crack the case so fast because think about it the mom probably had a stroller she's stuck in the bathroom someone's behind her she don't want to push back the next to her is a gate piggy piggy's pulling up trying to say what's up to the kid the arms can't even move but it just moves

5:55 like this Piggy's jumping high titty's getting fondled and he goes mommy mommy I'm loving this backstory no I think she should have said goofy pick one with long arms detail oriented such a you're such a good very brand detective man this is who they call bro thanks for solving it uh in the okay here's one in uh in 2000 a woman complained that she had headaches while writing Indiana Jones and then turns out she had a brain hemorrhage and passed away the family filed wrongful death suit claiming that was because of the turbulence of the ride uh and Disney did settle and it's estimated in the millions what they paid her maybe that's why they have to say now on the ride they now have signs that say like if you have like headaches migrain SE like prone to seizures please do not ride this ride yeah yeah yeah it's like like all over yeah Indiana Jones small um Space

6:46 Mountain they have it at Splash Mountain they they for sure should have it at uh Yeti what is it m horn matter horn matter horn I feel like I'm going to break thank you matter horn this one's really good it's from 1959 uh not the one with the that crazy Glory one but this one's uh this guy named Gary dubac is on the workers and he was uh working on the on the actual tracks trying to check a gear and then one of The Coasters came by and it knocked him off and he fell 100 feet and he survived wow gangster that's pretty tight how much did he get I I I think got employee of the month he got a gift card photo on the wall you got the just let go you got the weekend off take a long vacation no way

7:37 there's 100 ft straight bro you seen the matter horns that ████ is tall as hell well that's what I'm saying but 100 ft straight you think he did a boom bang pinball down in uh in 1966 a 19-year-old guy tried to sneak into Disneyland by going on the monal track and then they caught him and the guard was telling him to come down but he didn't listen and the monreal came and it ran him over and dragged him 40 ft oh dummy oh these kids had a best day at Disneyland seeing all this oh this one's good in 1983 uh during grad night this 18-year-old guy he got drunk and he stole a rubber Lifeboat from the restricted area and rode it into rivers of America and then uh he drowned and then his mom Su Disneyland for for allowing a

8:28 drunk person onto the premises and the lawsuit was not successful yeah cuz like so many people are drunk there all the time and it's grad night yeah wow you get oh yeah you can get drunk at this I don't think you can you can't get alcohol but everyone at gr night's somehow drunk yeah they get it uh this one's my favorite one and it's kind of really messed up but uh in 1979 a 31-year-old woman uh got so sick on Space Mountain that she couldn't even get out of the uh the roller coaster once it got back so what they do in that case is rather than like carry the person out they switch the track so that it goes to the side and then she can just like take her time and whatever she's got to do the the operator messed

9:19 up and he sent her through the right again so up and then and then when she got back she was unconscious hurry switch it to the other one now and don't mess up does it again the third time three times so she's unconscious she gets transported to the hospital she's she goes to a coma and then she died a week later no oh I feel bad for laughing so hard now that one I feel like this is 1979 no that's probably like the most extreme roller coaster ever too at that point imagine happening so the crazy thing is the coroner so they investigated it and the coroner said that she actually died of natural causes cuz he said that there

10:10 was when they did the autopsy that there was a tumor in her heart that already existed and it dislodged and traveled to her brain I don't know how that works like of the wind think Disney paid off the doctor the corner yeah I could have so so there the family the family didn't even Sue oh man oh ████ no settlement or anything wow oh that's out of all the stories this one deserve that's what I'm saying insane so upset if my family didn't sue after I you know you better get ████ Disneyland yeah they have ████ you money dude oh they have big ████ you money sending her to the right again is so messed up do with me on the cork screw imagine being the guy that like pushed the wrong thing and on the ride with her he's like never well again he's just that was just she goes back think he kept his job or no

11:03 dude definitely not but yeah I thought that one was the worst everybody else on the coas like Yay again but she I think she might have been alone she's the only one that's that's even worse she's going cuz I think everybody else got off and they're trying to redirect the like they're trying to move it to the side but it just took off you think they kept the picture that it takes of you it's one of those like flashing smile smile on camera toast didn't get you maybe next time kids it's that old it's only 79 it's 1885 everybody hold real still real still you have to stop the right stops everyone goes

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