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Tony_FLADEM

(3,023 posts)
Wed May 29, 2013, 04:29 PM May 2013

Disney World guest leaves loaded gun on ride

ORLANDO — A Walt Disney World park guest found a loaded gun in the seat of a ride at the Animal Kingdom that had fallen out of a man's back pocket on Sunday.

A grandmother handed a Cobra .380-caliber semiautomatic pistol about noon to a park attendant, who immediately contacted security and the Orange County Sheriff's Office.

A young boy said, "My grandma found it in her seat," the report stated.

The owner, Angelo Lista, 44, of Royal Palm Beach, Fla., said the firearm – which had five hollow point bullets inside - fell out of his back pocket during the bumpy Dinosaur ride, according to a Sheriff's Office incident report.

Deputies unloaded and confiscated the weapon.

Lista has a valid Florida concealed weapons permit and told authorities he did not know he was supposed to tell Disney security because there are no signs posted about firearms.

According to the report, Lista thought the security bag checks were for explosives not guns. He said he was not aware guests were not allowed to bring guns inside the parks.

http://www.tampabay.com/incoming/disney-world-guest-leaves-loaded-gun-on-ride/2123689

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Skittles

(153,150 posts)
3. they are paranoid little fuckwits
Wed May 29, 2013, 04:34 PM
May 2013

imagine the kind of sense he'd have if he felt the need to actually USE the gun

 

bowens43

(16,064 posts)
4. no such thing as a responsable gun owner
Wed May 29, 2013, 04:37 PM
May 2013

what kind of freaking idiot would take a loaded gun to an amusement park?

we need a complete and total ban on handguns and all ammunition

Arkansas Granny

(31,515 posts)
6. I suppose we can be thankful that the gun didn't go off while he was on the ride.
Wed May 29, 2013, 04:42 PM
May 2013

At least no one was injured in this case. I hope they revoked the idiots permit.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
8. if one of them Dinosaurs had gotten lose, you'd be glad a good guy with a gun was there
Wed May 29, 2013, 05:48 PM
May 2013

In related news, Disney officials announced that they were closing the Peter Pan ride, because Capt Hook was killed today. After this, what's the point of the ride, there's no one to pose any danger to Pan or the Lost Boys.

 

silvershadow

(10,336 posts)
10. All else aside, this fuckwit thought putting it in his back pocket during a bumpy ride was the
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 11:53 PM
Jun 2013

safe and responsible way to handle it? Too bad it didn't discharge into his ass or spine. Idiot.

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