So Disneyland’s Happiest Place on Earth got snapped back in to reality yesterday when a trash can exploded in Mickey’s Toonetown. The first reports were a bomb exploded at Disneyland. Today more information about what happened is coming out — that it was a Disney employee who placed a water bottle containing dry-ice inside a trash can… I didn’t even know dry ice can blow up. The suspect, Christian Barnes, an outdoor vending “cast member”, told the cops he put the dry-ice in a plastic can. Depending on which media report you want to believe, it was either a prank or an employee simply working. He is being held on $1-million dollars bail. That amount sounds a bit excessive to me, since no one was injured, except maybe Mickey’s pride and they lost revenue for about two hours from tourists who would otherwise be buying their over-priced — made-in-China crap.
It really doesn’t matter if it was accidental or a prank …this is just a reminder how easy it is for someone to actually place an explosive in a busy, public place that can hurt a lot of people. We live in a different world these days and there are plenty of people who are not terrorists that simply enjoy seeing people suffer or run in fear. It really is “a small world after all.”
*Guess his snow cone was packed a little too tightly…eh? Bored, stupid teenagers….again? Thank God it wasn’t Phosgene Gas!
How would one to have “a water bottle full of dry ice” to begin with? Is that plastic, glass, metal? From what I’ve read so far, it seems plausible that this guy didn’t know it was going to explode either. If this is simple negligence due to ignorance of the physics of dry ice – did they even train him about the dangers, if it was part of his job? — then the response (and particularly the high bail) seem excessive.
*Dr. Greg, this boy is in big trouble…..why? He did it in two locations….not just one….and he may be a converted Muslim. What could go wrong?
Oh, a he may be a converted Muslim! Say no more! (Seriously. No more.)
Here we go again with the blame the Muslims routine… my guess it was a mistake…have you tired to get a job at Disney??? They actually put a scope up your ass — as part of their background check. Anyone who is lucky enough (that’s what I’m told — they honestly believe they are lucky) to land a job at the Mouse would not lose that job over a prank.
I’ve read that dry ice in a bottle in a trash can is a popular senior prank. I think he knew it was gonna kaboom.
News to me. I am woefully behind in my contemporary knowledge of destructive pranks.
Kim…that is PURE speculation on your part…you have no idea what happened and neither does anyone else, except that employee. We re so quick to judge…what if that happened to you? What if you were accused of something…”well, all females do this, so Kim probably did that too.”
Fair point, Inge.
The esteemed Scott Lay — once of Placentia and now of Sacramento, the Community College lobby, and the Around the Capitol blog — has this to say about the Disneyland “bomb”:
He’s giving the commencement address at Cypress College tonight, by the way, so if you’re going there be sure to tell him that the Orange Juice Blog sent you. (It doesn’t have to be true. In fact, if it were true that you went to a commencement just on our say-so, that would be weird.)
If only Disney had a competent safety professional on hand. They are good about firing bad ones
Does anyone really think that this was an accident?
To handle dry ice you have to be wearing heavy gloves, because your skin will instantly freeze to the ice if you touch it with your bare hands. It also comes in big chunks the size of big slice of pizza, which won’t fit through the neck of a water bottle. It takes a bit of effort to break it into shards small enough to fit in the bottle (so I’ve heard).
This was no accident, and certainly not an experiment. This guy most likely tried this stunt before he was able to place it in a trash can at the Tragic Kingdom.
Time will tell why he did this.
*Boredom is not next to Godliness…….”a prank” is putting a whoopie cushion under
Cinderella when she sits down in Fantasyland…..
You do understand, I presume, that that would be a capital offense.
*True……but only if you are operating the Popcorn stand….at the same time.