He was wheelchair bound and apparently subject to panic attacks
If you have ever been on the ride, you know the song. You can't forget it. Even me mentioning it here calls it to mind, doesn't it?
Ride it once, know it forever ...
Apparently it took three hours to get the guy stabilized medically after they got him off the ride.
So he sued for mental distress, and won. Unfortunately, he only got about eight grand. Not enough. Disney officials weren't pleased, but just because they work in the happiest place on Earth doesn't make them so ...
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Recently I was stuck in the same ride. They turned off the music.
Sung to the tune of, "It's a Small World."
It's a world of torture
a world of pain
It' a world of monsters
that eat your brain
They will suck on your bones
and you'll die all alone
It's a cruel world after all
It's a cruel world after all
It's a cruel world after all
It's a cruel world after all
It' a cruel, cruel world
I used to work at Disneyland.
I made the mistake of riding that thing in it's original incarnation: the NY World's Fair in 1965. When I later ran across it in Disneyland, I refused to even wait outside while my wife took the kids- the "song" polluted the air around it. I'd wait around the corner on a bench.
One of the worst earworms of all time.
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