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Castmember Killed At Magic Kingdom

#1 wishingtree

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Posted 11 February 2004 - 07:20 PM

A castmember was killed during the Share a Dream parade at the Magic Kingdom Wednesday afternoon. Here's the story!

http://www.local6.co...397/detail.html

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Posted 11 February 2004 - 07:24 PM

wow thats all i have to say.

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Posted 11 February 2004 - 07:25 PM

It happened backstage, so at least no kids saw the accident.

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Posted 11 February 2004 - 08:27 PM

I'm real sorry to hear that :santa:

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Posted 11 February 2004 - 09:38 PM

Wow.
Holy crap.

Wow.
That's sad.

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Posted 12 February 2004 - 08:28 AM

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/cu...-home-headlines more info.

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Posted 12 February 2004 - 10:34 AM

The CM was playing Pluto....there are so many jokes that are there but I won't go there.....for now :santa:

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Posted 12 February 2004 - 04:42 PM

QuickGold said:

The CM was playing Pluto....there are so many jokes that are there but I won't go there.....for now :santa:

I was crushed when I heard the news.

Oops :oops: I tried. Couldn't keep it in any longer.

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Posted 12 February 2004 - 07:40 PM

As of 6pm tonight, Orange Co Sherriff as well as the Union Investigations have found it to be completely a random accident.

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Posted 12 February 2004 - 10:02 PM

wishingtree said:

I was crushed when I heard the news.

Oops :oops: I tried. Couldn't keep it in any longer.

Glad I wasn't the first

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Posted 12 February 2004 - 10:40 PM

wishingtree said:

QuickGold said:

The CM was playing Pluto....there are so many jokes that are there but I won't go there.....for now

I was crushed when I heard the news.

Oops :oops: I tried. Couldn't keep it in any longer.

*ROTFL* I'm sorry, but that was a good one.

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Posted 12 February 2004 - 10:52 PM

trendymagic said:

As of 6pm tonight, Orange Co Sherriff as well as the Union Investigations have found it to be completely a random accident.

My theory still stands that he was too close to the float and wasn't paying close enough attention.

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Posted 12 February 2004 - 11:09 PM

DisneyPrincess said:

trendymagic said:

As of 6pm tonight, Orange Co Sherriff as well as the Union Investigations have found it to be completely a random accident.

My theory still stands that he was too close to the float and wasn't paying close enough attention.

That's the only logical explanation.

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Posted 12 February 2004 - 11:51 PM

DisneyPrincess said:

trendymagic said:

As of 6pm tonight, Orange Co Sherriff as well as the Union Investigations have found it to be completely a random accident.

My theory still stands that he was too close to the float and wasn't paying close enough attention.

Yep. And I wouldn't want to be that driver right now either.

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Posted 13 February 2004 - 12:49 AM

The drivers can't see out of the float. They rely on the music, sensors in the parade route and radio commands from the spotters, they go through a ton of training to get to drive. Even after all that, I'd still feel horrible if I had been the driver, even knowing it probably wasn't anything that I did

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Posted 13 February 2004 - 11:01 AM

Those drivers do go through a program to get to drive those things. Ran into one during the parade section of the Backstage Magic tour last year. He let us know a lot more than I would have ever expected about his job.