Anybody that has been to a Disney theme park is familiar with that feeling of being robbed. The entertainment giant is well known for squeezing every bit of excess cash out of its “lucky” guests in return for the promise of the experience of a lifetime.
Still, it is taking things a bit far to enter the world of Mickey and Snow-White packing heat.
Certainly, staff were shocked earlier this month after a female tourist was caught carrying a concealed firearm inside the main Disney World theme park in Orlando. But she really took the cake when she went and blamed the breach on her 6-year-old son.
The woman has now been arrested and charged with carrying a concealed firearm, according to a report in the Orlando Sentinel.
The 27-year-old visitor, named as Marcia Temple, 27, of Lithonia, Ga, is accused of ditching the gun in a planter near the Magic Kingdom security checkpoint. Incredibly, after she was confronted, she blamed her 6-year-old son for putting it there, telling deputies that the child was supposed to be watching the gun.
The incident unfolded when an healthcare employee performing a temperature check saw the tourist leave something behind the planters before heading to the security check.
A 9mm loaded gun with 10 bullets was found in a pink purse. Temple, who didn’t have a concealed carry permit, was arrested on a “Carrying a Concealed Firearm” charge, and banned from Walt Disney World property which doesn’t allow guns at their theme parks regardless of possession of a concealed carry permit.
“Our rules are clear. Weapons are not allowed at our resort,” Disney spokeswoman Andrea Finger said in a statement Thursday.
Temple reportedly said it was her 6-year-old son’s responsibility to watch the handgun while she went to go get her brother to take the gun back to the car.
In July, a tourist was stopped from bringing two guns into EPCOT, another Disney park.