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Not specifically me involved, sort of, just my group, but man this had bad odds of turning out ok.
It was the day before my wedding (the rehersal was the previous day) and we took some of the "out of towners" attending the wedding to Disneyland. There were 23 of us I believe. 6 of them were kids ages, 10 yrs, 6 yrs, 4 yrs, 3yrs, 2yrs, and 2 months old.
Beautiful July day...not too hot....everyone got along.....no kids lost.....you get the idea.
In the evening everyone wanted to go see Fantasmic, and me and my soon to be DH wanted to have a little time alone, so our group split up. We figured we'd go ride the Matterhorn and then watch the fireworks. We would all meet up in front of the castle afterwards.
Our BIG group of people had a double stroller with a 2 month in it, who was sleeping, at this point. Amazing they found a space to view the show, but they did. My Mom and stepfather and a few others in our group hung back at the ropes with the stroller, others in the group moved forward to get closer. So off we went. The rest of the story, is as it was told to us, by Disneyland security who came and got us at the Matterhorn exit and escorted us backstage and later confirmed by family and friends who were there.
As the show was about to start a group of 6 Asian men infiltrated our splinter group and picked up (not rolling) the stroller and tried to move it away...well there was a sleeping baby in it. My Mom went to get the baby's mother, she was further up in the crowd and my stepfather tried to stop them and they got mad. They didn't appear to speak English. So my stepfather tried to motion to the baby inside but the stroller got picked up again,, now by 2 of the guys, to move it. So my stepfather started to yell at the men. One of them took their camera and set off his flash in my stepfather's face and really pissed him off. My stepfather decked the guy, did I mention he has a bad temper? The guy punched him back and in stepped Disneyland security and hauled them all off backstage.
The man who previously didn't speak English, suddenly spoke clear English to security and wanted assault charges pressed against my stepfather, who was now bleeding above his left eye. My stepfather wanted the charges brought up on this guy. My mother was about to have a nervous breakdown...there was a wedding the next day!. She had told securtiy where to find us, because they were going to call the Anaheim PD to sort this all out and have them all removed from the park. This is why we were greeted by several security officers. So we would not get left in the park alone not knowing what had happened.
Well before the police arrived the other guy went ballistic on the security officers and in the end, he got arrested. My stepfather was calmed down by my mother and did not file any charges and we were released back into the park by the Main St. station just in time to enjoy some candy and ice cream and go home for the night.
There was a wedding without incident the next day and in all my pictures, you can see the cut above my stepfather's left eye.
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