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Not Afraid · 10-01-2006, 07:09 PM

Year of a million bad car scents! The pumpkin was a great marketing ploy - until you unwrapped it and placed it in your closed up car for a few hours. I had the scent-sation I was trapped in a Yankee Candle store. The cute little pumpkin is now thrown carelessly in the trunk.

RStar · 10-02-2006, 01:02 PM

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The cute little pumpkin is now thrown carelessly in the trunk.

But at least now I can say you have a great smelling trunk!

Babette · 10-02-2006, 05:29 PM

When we entered the structure yesterday there was a notice about heightened security, and an anaheim patrol car in the right lane. Just past the booths was a trailer with a "cherry picker" type jobby. We asked the cast member about it, and he told us it was a portable police surveillance tower. They use it to get a birds-eye view of the area around the park. He said there was not any new threat, they have just been more careful since 9/11. I had never see this contraption until yesterday.

Today on the CBS 5:00 news there was a story about recent armed robberies at the parking booths. The story showed surveillance footage of a nicely dressed man in a gangster/panama hat get out of a black porche and rob the attendant. A second photo shows another day with a silver Camary, but not many details or mention of the day it happened. Does anyone know anything more about this?

HEY!! Didn't Nirvanaman just get a Panama hat in Ecuador?!

Motorboat Cruiser · 10-02-2006, 05:48 PM

All I know is what I have read on other Disney boards. Someone mentioned that there were police positioned at each of the ticket booths as a result of the two incidents that you mentioned.

I don't know. Seems to me to be a pretty stupid thing to rob. The odds of a car pulling behind you and leaving you only with the option of escaping through the parking structure are pretty high. I sure wouldn't want to navigate through that thing trying to escape. The cops might actually even have time to respond to something like that before you found your way out.

Also, I realize that they are taking in somewhere around $11 a minute at each booth but still, in a three hour period, that's only a little over 300 bucks. Is it really worth the risk for that small a take?

Apparently so...

Not Afraid · 10-02-2006, 06:20 PM

Here's a link to the thread CoasterMatt started with a humerous title.

We were speculating about the amount the theives got away with. Now that parking is $11, I'm sure they keep boatloads of $1's and $5's on hand to make change for the $20's they get handed.

Babette · 10-02-2006, 06:21 PM

Sorry - I searched and saw nothing. I knew I wasn't the first to think if it !

MickeyLumbo · 10-02-2006, 07:46 PM

those dangling pumpkins were distributed to everyone in the office today. sheesh, it was good to get home and take off my shoes.

innerSpaceman · 10-02-2006, 09:18 PM

Whew, more merging. Sheeh, I can't bring myself to put the threads under any other title but Coaster Matt's original witty one, but this is (for the LoT) a moderator work-out!

And, while I wish no harm to any CMs, I think it is only Karma that Disney's greed for another dollar per car would leave the booths with so much more change-making cash as to provide a more alluring criminal target.

RStar · 10-02-2006, 10:44 PM

I saw a news blurb about it on TV. They said they would have the film on the news tonight, and showed a 3 second clip of the actual security film.

There was also something in the Register about it. Said two guys pull up in a Porsche, the passenger gets out with a gun (but didn't point it at anyone, and demands the money. Then they take off. I guess they needed the money to make the Porsche payment.......

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Ghoulish Delight · 10-03-2006, 08:27 AM

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Also, I realize that they are taking in somewhere around $11 a minute at each booth but still, in a three hour period, that's only a little over 300 bucks. Is it really worth the risk for that small a take?

That's some strange math there, MbC. $11/minute=$660/hour.

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HEY!! Didn't Nirvanaman just get a Panama hat in Ecuador?!

Perhaps, but does a faded Nirvana t-shirt count as "nicely dressed"?

10-01-2006, 07:09 PM	#21
Not Afraid HI! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17,108	Year of a million bad car scents! The pumpkin was a great marketing ploy - until you unwrapped it and placed it in your closed up car for a few hours. I had the scent-sation I was trapped in a Yankee Candle store. The cute little pumpkin is now thrown carelessly in the trunk.
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10-02-2006, 05:29 PM	#23
Babette Snubbed Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: cupcake heaven Posts: 433	Anyone know about these parking attendant robberies? When we entered the structure yesterday there was a notice about heightened security, and an anaheim patrol car in the right lane. Just past the booths was a trailer with a "cherry picker" type jobby. We asked the cast member about it, and he told us it was a portable police surveillance tower. They use it to get a birds-eye view of the area around the park. He said there was not any new threat, they have just been more careful since 9/11. I had never see this contraption until yesterday. Today on the CBS 5:00 news there was a story about recent armed robberies at the parking booths. The story showed surveillance footage of a nicely dressed man in a gangster/panama hat get out of a black porche and rob the attendant. A second photo shows another day with a silver Camary, but not many details or mention of the day it happened. Does anyone know anything more about this? HEY!! Didn't Nirvanaman just get a Panama hat in Ecuador?!
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10-02-2006, 05:48 PM	#24
Motorboat Cruiser Cruiser of Motorboats Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: So Cal Posts: 3,665	All I know is what I have read on other Disney boards. Someone mentioned that there were police positioned at each of the ticket booths as a result of the two incidents that you mentioned. I don't know. Seems to me to be a pretty stupid thing to rob. The odds of a car pulling behind you and leaving you only with the option of escaping through the parking structure are pretty high. I sure wouldn't want to navigate through that thing trying to escape. The cops might actually even have time to respond to something like that before you found your way out. Also, I realize that they are taking in somewhere around $11 a minute at each booth but still, in a three hour period, that's only a little over 300 bucks. Is it really worth the risk for that small a take? Apparently so...
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10-02-2006, 06:20 PM	#25
Not Afraid HI! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17,108	Here's a link to the thread CoasterMatt started with a humerous title. We were speculating about the amount the theives got away with. Now that parking is $11, I'm sure they keep boatloads of $1's and $5's on hand to make change for the $20's they get handed.
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10-02-2006, 06:21 PM	#26
Babette Snubbed Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: cupcake heaven Posts: 433	Sorry - I searched and saw nothing. I knew I wasn't the first to think if it !
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10-02-2006, 07:46 PM	#27
MickeyLumbo thankfully grateful Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: shangrila Posts: 1,388	those dangling pumpkins were distributed to everyone in the office today. sheesh, it was good to get home and take off my shoes. __________________
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innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Whew, more merging. Sheeh, I can't bring myself to put the threads under any other title but Coaster Matt's original witty one, but this is (for the LoT) a moderator work-out! And, while I wish no harm to any CMs, I think it is only Karma that Disney's greed for another dollar per car would leave the booths with so much more change-making cash as to provide a more alluring criminal target.
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10-02-2006, 10:44 PM	#29
RStar Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Me & Manyard hangin out! Posts: 5,433	I saw a news blurb about it on TV. They said they would have the film on the news tonight, and showed a 3 second clip of the actual security film. There was also something in the Register about it. Said two guys pull up in a Porsche, the passenger gets out with a gun (but didn't point it at anyone, and demands the money. Then they take off. I guess they needed the money to make the Porsche payment....... ........ __________________ Meddle not in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup! www.StarTownGifts.com
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