Fun For The Whole Family

I often read about videos gone "viral" and this is one of the best ones I've ever seen. The headline of this article says "DERANGED MAN GETS SHOWERED WITH PEPPER SPRAY AT DISNEYLAND." Sometimes when people describe videos as "viral" I think that means people aren't really watching what is going on.

If you click the link at the bottom you can go to the page and watch the four minute video yourself. A few observations. At the beginning, the guy punches a security guard of some type so I can't criticize the initial hit of pepper spray. What is up with that white fedora-type hat? Is this what security guards wear? It looks odd to me, and maybe the "deranged" guy thought he was talking to a Disney character of some kind rather than a security guard.

Next you can see the guy is laying on the ground, helpless, and the guy in the white hat continues to pepper spray him anyway. He seems to really be enjoying it! Then the guy gets up and he's just wiping his eyes and otherwise recovering. The white hat guy is directing him to sit down and the guy is just standing there. Then the white hat guy pepper sprays him again! HE'S JUST STANDING THERE. What was that saying, "sticks and stones can break my bones...?" The guy was just TALKING and he gets another blast in the face. Seems excessive, and this sets the guy off all over again.

Finally when the white hat guy knocks him down, THEN the bystanders get courageous and join in pummeling the guy, no doubt anticipating some Disney driven reward for helping out. Even though this is happening at Disney World, there are no kids to be seen, only young slackers who can stand around goofing on the guy instead of having real jobs or doing anything useful with their lives. Despite the absence of children, you can hear a woman on there shrieking about children being around. SHE should've been pepper sprayed as well, just to shut her up.

All in all a powerful statement on where we are as a nation today. A drunken pepper sprayed mess, rolling around on the ground while being ridiculed by unemployed bystanders and screaming moms.

A 53-year-old man went berserk outside the Tower of Terror at Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim this past weekend and repeatedly got pepper-sprayed, temporarily providing an attraction called, "What Happens When You Get Drunk at Disneyland and Throw Punches at Security." The four-minute video shows a pretty pathetic scene that includes commentary from one guy who speculates on the man's drink of choice, and a loud woman who lays on some thick moral outrage. "There are kids here," she yells. "Does this guy not get that? You’re in Disneyland!" Surprisingly self-aware, Glenn Horlacher, the man who's been booked for assault and battery, shouts, "I know where I am at!"

[New York Magazine]