The Happiest Place On Earth

Gentlemen, behold:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7gtoLmHd5w

Hmm. This one isn’t auto-embedding. Maybe because it’s an “Age restricted video.” But if you like witnessing a fairly blatant example of the downfall of civilization… here ya go.

I’m honestly *shocked* that it took as long as it did for Disneyland security to get on the scene. The Disney parks are generally considered to be prit near police states of surveillance and control; this was just sad.

Additionally: the worst of the fighting was broken up when other park patrons decided they’d had enough of this ridiculous display and stepped int to stop it themselves. On the one hand… good for them for doing so. on the other hand… I fully understand the bulk of the other patrons who saw what was going on and decided “I want no part of this.” There was, up until the end, no clear good guy/bad guy; just a bunch of uncivilized horrible people. In such a situation, it makes all kinds of sense to just stay the frell out of it. Now if there was a clear victim right up front, you’d hope that your Average Guy would step in and do something proper. But even in that case… it would be hard to blame anyone who decided to stay out of it. You are unlikely to be there by yourself; chances are you’ve got your significant other and probably a kid or two in tow. your chief duty is to see to *their* security. And even if you had no such worries, trying to stop a physical confrontation not only puts you at risk of getting shanked, but of getting arrested and sued. there’s a reason why the police freakin’ *hate* domestic violence calls.