A worker at Walt Disney World is “recovering” after being injured by a 400-lb (180kg) runaway fake boulder prop in an incident that was caught on video, the Florida theme park confirmed.
The incident took place at the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular! during a live recreation of a famous scene from the film.
Video shows the boulder rolling towards the audience as a staff member jumps into its path, preventing it from reaching the crowd.
Bravo to that guy for putting himself in the way to protect the crowd. I hope Disney doesn’t fuck him over.
Dude, it’s Disney. Of course they will.
dude kept park attendees from being hurt. I’m not up on florida law, but to me it smells like it would be a slam dunk workman’s comp case if disney didn’t agree to foot the recovery bills and cover any lost wages. And honestly, if i were disney i’d toss in a little extra to encourage protecting park guests. The cost of the positive PR that’d come out of doing this is a rounding error on their balance sheet.
so they’ll probably fire him. sucks, right?
That’s not how businesses work. They will pretend he chose to hurt himself and that it was needless dramatics, there’s no proof the boulder would have hurt anyone if he hadn’t intervened. It could have miraculously disappeared if he gave it the chance.
In Florida?!? It’s probably legal to take him to small claims for the cost of damage to the boulder
The boulder was found to have the same rights as the park goers and by halting its progress he violated the terms of his contract to allow for a “fun and inclusive” environment for the boulder.
Thus he was terminated without severance.
Unfortunately he once had a few trial of Disney+, so he gets nothing.