Fat cat moms pay disabled members $1,000 a day to cut lines at Disney.

[powderman]

Moms pay $1,000-a-day to hire disabled members to skip lines at Disney  Published May 14, 2013
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•    Some families reportedly have hired disabled people to allow them to be able to cut the line at Disney World. (Disney)

Forget the FastPasses.  Apparently the secret to skipping the long lines at Disney World is to hire a disabled person.
 
The New York Post is reporting that some deep-pocketed New York City moms are hiring a motorized scooter-bound guide to pose as a family member so they and their kids can jump to the front of the lines.
According to the report, families book tours through an outfit called Dream Tours in Florida, which on its website claims to provide "quality based, memorable, and affordable vacations, to people with special needs."  The Disney guide charges $130 an hour, or $1,040 for an eight-hour day, citing a Manhattan mom who claims she hired a tour guide using a motorized scooter.
“You can’t go to Disney without a tour concierge,’’ she told the Post. “This is how the 1 percent does Disney.”
The mom said that a guide using a motorized scooter escorted her, and her husband and their two sons around the theme park and were able to immediately go onto rides while others waited for hours.
Disney allows each guest who needs a wheelchair or motorized scooter to bring up to six guests to a “more convenient entrance.”
 
The New York mother indicated that Jacie Christiano --who works at Dream Tours and is the girlfriend of the tour company owner, Ryan Clement--was the family's guide. Clement told the Post that Christiano doesn't use her disability to bypass lines and says that she has an auto-immune disorder.
Calls made by FoxNews.com to Clement and Disney representatives have not been returned.

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[Oldshooter]

Disney, to their credit, does make allowances for the handicapped. One of my sons has CP and its been years, but when we went we were able to bypass long lines so he could ride (what he could) with his siblings. Often there is a different entrance or waiting spot. We were told about that after we arrived at the hotel.
 
With this Information, maybe Disney will crack down on the "guides" .

[Sourdough]

The last time I was at Disney World, I noticed how they let the Handicapped people in wheelchairs, by-pass the long lines.  One group we noticed in particuler, a man in a wheel chair, with a woman and two kids.  The kids looked to  be about 10 and 12.  The man was wearing shorts with metal braces on his legs. 

The next day, we again saw them at EPCOT, only this time it was the woman in the wheel chair.  The man was pushing her this time.  He was wearing shorts, but no braces.  The woman was wearing the black wraparound braces on both legs.  Again they were by-passing the long lines, and going straight through to the front of the line.

So this is nothing new, it's just finally come to the attention of the public.  Maybe Disney will finally do something about it.