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.
Bravo to that guy for putting himself in the way to protect the crowd. I hope Disney doesn’t fuck him over.
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.
Unfortunately he once had a free trial of Disney+, so he gets nothing.
bro is a legit hero for that move. as funny as the video looks, mad respect for that dude.
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
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.
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?
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?
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?
Time for disney to fire him and sue him for something.
Disney has a real racket paying people bargain basement wages and still has them caring about the job. Happiest place on earth, right?
Why is recovering in quotes?
Because they’re indicating that is the exact word used in Disney’s statement.
Disney better pay for his healthcare in full or that is one way to enter personal bankruptcy.
Hero material right there.
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
