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A worker at Walt Disney World is “recovering” after being injured by a 400-lb (180kg) runaway fake boulder prop in an incident that was caught on video, the Florida theme park confirmed.
The incident took place at the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular! during a live recreation of a famous scene from the film.
Video shows the boulder rolling towards the audience as a staff member jumps into its path, preventing it from reaching the crowd.
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I think that is best referred to as an “ultralight performance boulder” rather than a “fake boulder”.
bro is a legit hero for that move. as funny as the video looks, mad respect for that dude.
as funny as the video looks
What part was funny?
how he fell, i guess. it was just so anti-climactic. im not some sort of sadist here, its just the video subverted expectations, and many people find that sort of thing amusing. no ill intent.
I thought it looked a little funny.
From the title you kind of expect the staff member to sprint to position, arms spread wide, brace for impact, and then the big collision.
Instead it is kind of like they did not expect the boulder to weigh that much, the boulder goes bonk, and he flops.
Injury is never funny, but the imagery is a little funny.
seriously. no one goes to a show to get hurt. poor guy’s gonna get called Indy the rest of his life too
omg the worst fate. lol
I would wear that name with pride if I saved children from being hurt.
They named him after the dog?
Time for disney to fire him and sue him for something.
Why is recovering in quotes?
Because they’re indicating that is the exact word used in Disney’s statement.
My guess is because the amount of “recovery” needed is uncertain. Are they just being monitored for head trauma but otherwise have nothing beyond scrapes and bruises? Or do they have broken bones and a severe concussion?
Bravo to that guy for putting himself in the way to protect the crowd. I hope Disney doesn’t fuck him over.
Unfortunately he once had a few trial of Disney+, so he gets nothing.
Dude, it’s Disney. Of course they will.
dude kept park attendees from being hurt. I’m not up on florida law, but to me it smells like it would be a slam dunk workman’s comp case if disney didn’t agree to foot the recovery bills and cover any lost wages. And honestly, if i were disney i’d toss in a little extra to encourage protecting park guests. The cost of the positive PR that’d come out of doing this is a rounding error on their balance sheet.
so they’ll probably fire him. sucks, right?
In Florida?!? It’s probably legal to take him to small claims for the cost of damage to the boulder
That’s not how businesses work. They will pretend he chose to hurt himself and that it was needless dramatics, there’s no proof the boulder would have hurt anyone if he hadn’t intervened. It could have miraculously disappeared if he gave it the chance.
The boulder was found to have the same rights as the park goers and by halting its progress he violated the terms of his contract to allow for a “fun and inclusive” environment for the boulder.
Thus he was terminated without severance.
Hero material right there.
Jeez, if it’s going to weigh that much, why not just get a real boulder?
An actual boulder of similar size could be 3-5 tons and would’ve resulted in the death of everyone involved
…so you’re saying it would be cheaper for Disney?
Calm down Satan
Watch the video…
There’s no way that thing weighed 400 lbs!!! It bounces like a balloon! Dude just didn’t brace himself at all and got bounced
Heavy things can bounce if they have the right properties. That ball looked to be going somewhere between 5-10 mph and that guy went down fast. That momentum had to come from the ball, and that ball has to weigh considerably more than he does to hit with that much force at that speed.
Would it actually have hit the crowd? It looks like there’s a barrier.
Looks like a low barrier. It could likely have bounced over.
It was bouncing, quite high. So seems likely
So good the hear the show is back up and running because it’s very important that no sales be lost.
/s
I mean, the boulder obviously escaped the script and they were trying to do the right thing
Wow. I hope that guy sues and has enough money to live a comfortable life without working.
Disney Lawyers are something else. I hear Satan wont even let them into hell because he fears them, they just stay in purgatory with the unbaptized babies.
Unbaptized babies don’t go to purgatory. They go to Limbo, which is the first circle of Hell.
Disney will settle out of court with a(n) NDA('s) for an undisclosed amount so we will never know.
About 5 years ago, during the worst week in Orlando history (including the Pulse Massacre, and the murder of Christina Grimmy), a toddler was snatched and killed by an alligator at Disney’s most exclusive hotel. Disney had a fake beach on their grounds, with an inviting sandy beach leading into a lake, and the kid was sitting it in the shallow water, playing. Disney KNEW there were gators in the water, but they didn’t want to darken anyone’s idea of it being anything but sunny and fun, so they didn’t restrict access to the water, or even put up signs warning of the MANY gators in the water. The resulting scenario was so predictable, that the only thing shocking about it was that it hadn’t happened much earlier.
It should have been one of the biggest lawsuits on history, but in a VERY short time, it was announced that they had come to a settlement with the toddler’s family.
We don’t know what they got, but Disney must have offered them a ridiculous amount to keep that from going to a public trial, so much that even the victims own lawyers said, “There’s no way you’ll get more at trial. Take it.”
Holy fuck, I never realized all of that happened within a single week.
And near the end of the week, the first case of Zika virus was found in Florida, which they thought might turn into a major thing (it didn’t).
I owned an ice cream store at the time, and it couldn’t have been timed worse. It happened in the very week when the summer tourism boom takes off each year, and cranks for the rest of the summer. It’s when a business like mine makes the biggest profit of the year, and it just…never happened.
By the end of the week, all my customers in the hotel business were saying that EVERY phone call was a cancellation, and their companies were telling them to lie, and say that everything was going great.
By the end of the season, my summer increase never happened. It was Orlando’s year without a summer.
had a fake beach on their grounds, with an inviting sandy beach leading into a lake, and the kid was sitting it in the shallow water
that’s 100% an attractive nuisance and 100% on disney
I really don’t like the idea of a out of court settlement.
So, you do some criminal shit but then if you have enough money, and the other side agrees to settle, you get off scott-free? No crime happened? Wtf?
That’s an easy way to twist the crime statistics too. So, justice is like playing some board game?
Civil and criminal are 2 entirely separate processes.
I would agree with you if there was a criminal element to it, but Disney wasn’t determined by the police to have done anything criminal, just negligent. So that goes to Civil Court, where it’s only about money.
So, you do some criminal shit but then if you have enough money, and the other side agrees to settle, you get off scott-free? No crime happened? Wtf?
If it were criminal there would be a prosecutor and the state would be charging Disney. Sounds like it was a civil suit seeking damages - which they got.
It’s a workman’s comp claim.
But sue for… What? I can’t imagine Disney was negligent it anything. This show has run for decades and the cast member willingly put himself in danger.
lol. Dude is a hero and you just don’t want him cashing in.
Jesus, i friggin hate the whole “we must go all in on one direction else you go all in on the other direction” bullshit.
You’re not saying I’m wrong. You just don’t like that I’m right.
No, you’re saying I’m right.
Disney should just pay him 10% of the expected total of the lawsuits if it had in fact rolled through the crowd. He’d be set for life for sure.
Sounds fair to me. He’d be a millionaire for sure.
I expect that won’t be necessary. Disney has the opportunity to get good PR out of this. All they need to do is sing this worker’s praises, parade their hero around a bit, compensate him appropriately, pay for all medical needs, etc. All together a small cost for some good press and a happy ending.
Inb4 they’re fired because they’re supposed to keep audience from approaching the stage not the stage approaching the audience
This
The guy really tried doing his best in a split second but there is a good chance they’ll just fire his ass for this. The audience may think him a hero but HR?
More like 40lbs
Disney better pay for his healthcare in full or that is one way to enter personal bankruptcy.
It’s coming right for us 😄
-That dad.
I bet they deny him sick leave.
Nah. I’m a former Cast Member and I’ve spent some time injured on Disney’s dime in a much lower stakes version of this. If they’re able to sit upright they’ll be given seated light duty tasks like putting hangers on clothing and gluing popsicle sticks on Olaf butts to make fans for the guests. It’s honestly the best workers comp experience I’ve ever had, they’ve got on property doctors who are actually pretty good and if you get injured after their office closes they’ve got a deal with an off property urgent care who sucked but I had zero paperwork to deal with. Also if I didn’t have a five star workers comp experience, the union would have had something to say about it - Cast Members are unionised.
Edit: not to say Disney doesn’t suck, I absolutely have horror stories and everyone who has worked for them does, but their workers comp process was actually pretty great.
If they’re able to sit upright they’ll be given seated light duty tasks like putting hangers on clothing and gluing popsicle sticks on Olaf butts to make fans for the guests. It’s honestly the best workers comp experience I’ve ever had,
I… Wha… Are you for real? It’s not “worker’s comp” if you still literally have to work. Holy shit, how did we get to the point where people think this is a good way for a corporation to treat employees?
This is literally “denying sick leave” like the comment you replied to said.
If you sprain your ankle, why wouldn’t you be able to work? Obviously the dude in the video will get time off, but if you have a foot injury, why would desk duty not be okay?
It’s Disney, so it will probably go like this:
“You’re okay, right? No need to file a workers comp claim, right? That would raise your insurance rates, you know, and you don’t want that. Just walk it off, and don’t talk about, and it will feel better fast. So, since this “didn’t happen,” I expect you to be on time for your next shift tomorrow. You can take it easy today though, maybe just stand at the exit and say Goodbye to guests, okay? I mean it, I don’t want to see a workers comp claim, got it?”
