The lines at Disney World are awful, we can all agree, but the lengths to which some people will go to bypass them are worse. Wealthy Manhattan parents are reportedly using a service that typically assists disabled children around the theme park to drive their non-disabled families around in a "handicapped" scooter, allowing them to skip lines by up to two hours.
It sounds like something out of a "Modern Seinfeld" episode. But in this case, the horrible people are real. And they're spectacularly crass.
"You can't go to Disney without a tour concierge," one rich mom said, according to the New York Post. "This is how the 1 percent does Disney."
Well, gross. This is, above all, a problem of basic human decency. But it is also a problem of black markets -- or legal markets extended illegally (or extra-legally) to people who shouldn't qualify.
The official Disney VIP Tour includes guides and premium fast passes for between $300 and $400 per hour. That's much more expensive than a $130-per-hour disability service afforded by Dream Tours Florida. There's a very simple explanation for the price difference: The VIP tickets are priced to where the rich will pay (and also to weed out all but the richest families to keep the service exclusive); whereas, the disability tour company sees all families with a disabled person as consumers. So these rich families reportedly using Dream Tours Florida aren't benefiting from a peculiarly effective and peculiarly cheap service, precisely because neither the service nor the price is intended to serve wealthy families. They're benefiting from a service they don't deserve at a price far below where the real luxury market for fast passes has settled.
Markets in everything, you might say. Sure. Regulation (and retribution) in everything would be good, too.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/05/well-this-is-just-awful-renting-disabled-people-to-skip-lines-at-disney-world/275840/
and a bit more in detail article/site
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/14/skipping-lines-at-disney_n_3275836.html
World's most unfortunate butt dial?
A prisoner at Welikada jail in Colombo, Sri Lanka, got into trouble this week, after he attempted to hide a smuggled cell phone in his rectum.
The Agence France-Presse reports that the 58-year-old convict had concealed the phone, along with a hands-free headset, in his body cavity. The items were discovered when prison guards heard a suspicious ringing.
"Guards knew he had a phone at the wrong end," an unidentified guard told the AFP.
An X-ray taken of the prisoner in a local hospital reveals the phone and handset in all their glory. No word on what happened to the phone in question.
Other prisoners at Welikada also seem to take their cell phones seriously. In November, at least 27 people were killed when prisoners rioted during a search for illegal phones and drugs, reports Reuters.
Apparently, Brazilian prisoners are pretty passionate about their phone, as well. In January, a prisoner apparently tried to smuggle in a cell phone, earphone, memory card, charge, drill and saw on the back of a cat. According to Reuters, the hapless, duct-taped feline was "detained" by authorities, who quoted a prison spokesperson as saying, "It's tough to find out who's responsible for the action as the cat doesn't speak."
In the U.S., while it is a crime to possess a cell phone in federal prison, illegal phone seizures have increased dramatically, according to the Washington Post. But this has not prevented prisoners from attempting to smuggle phones in their "private" areas. Gizmodo got the scoop from a Sergeant Don McGraw of California's San Quentin State Prison. According to the Sergeant, inmates often use bathrooms as a way to pass phones from friends on the outside to inmates:
"An inmate's associate on the outside will have taped a package (of phones, drugs, tobacco, etc.) to the back of the women's toilet, for example," said the Sergeant. "When the inmates come to clean, they toss it in with the rest of the trash, then sort through it later. Then, when when nobody's looking, whoop, up the butt it goes."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/08/prisoner-phone-butt-sri-lanka_n_2646714.html
COMMENTS
Wow! LOL
hehehe they just like to shove stuff up there lol
putting it on vibrate would have not only been more wise, but also more enjoyable!
Brings new meaning to "there is an ass on the telephone " lol
Yes, yes it does. Also, new meaning to talking out of your ass!
"Keister-stashing" has been around a long, long time among smugglers and the incarcerated.
And because something nearly ALWAYS goes wrong (i.e., the balloon bursts and pure heroin is released into the body), it's the butt of many jokes.
Pun intended.
But the one I feel most sorry for, is the cat.
Poor kitty. I hope he/she suffered no ill effects from that escapade :(
This does not surprise me. Not long ago a woman was arrested for stashing a gun in her cooch hahaha
I remember reading that! A COOTER SHOOTER!
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BelovedxTwilight
20:04 May 15 2013
I can't even believe the audacity of some people. This is how the 1% do it? Stupid bitch :-/ *grumble grumble grumble*
schedule1
20:35 May 15 2013
Yes, they are bad.....but some of the blame has to go on the disabled people who want this gig!