Mouse Extra

If you have not heard or read anything about an unbelievably violent episode that took place at the All-Star Music Resort between two Pop Warner football teams from Hawaii, then read this article in today’s Mouse Planet park update.  It is an incredibly sad situation.

A Disney cast member familiar with the situation informed MousePlanet that the All-Star Music front desk received a call at around 11:45 p.m. Friday night that there was an altercation at the arcade, and that there were 90-100 teenagers involved in a serious fight. There were reports of adults hitting kids. Three security guards and a security manager responded and broke up the fight after midnight. The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office was called and deputies interviewed participants to try to determine how the incident started. Due to conflicting stories, no charges were lodged. All of those involved were sent back to their rooms.

If you can believe it this is just the beginning of the whole incident.  Another fights breaks out only a little while later.  The story continues…

…Around 1 a.m. Saturday morning, the fight started again in buildings 3 and 6, with approximately 100-110 people involved. The front desk was called by families not involved with Pop Warner, claiming that it was close to riot conditions and that they wanted to check out immediately to get away from the situation. Sheriff’s deputies, along with Disney security staff, stopped the fight again. One boy from the Kahalu’u team had his nose broken and went to the hospital. There were no other reported serious injuries.

Anyone involved with football, even at this age, knows that this is not an unusual occurrence at all.  It happens all too often.  If you read the rest of the article, you will see that Pop Warner official had already been aware of behavioral issues in the past.  If you have been to Walt Disney World during this time you will know exactly what they meant by that, especially if you have stayed at a value resort.  It can quite simply ruin your stay.

Could you imagine being the other guests in that hotel when this happened?  Could you imagine being awoken to 100-plus teenagers and adults practically rioting outside your window?  Now I won’t say that Disney should stop holding this event, though for the good of other guests they should certainly consider it.  But it makes far too much money for Disney to ever do that.  So you can rest assured that something like this will happen again, perhaps on a much smaller scale, but it will happen again. 

I guess the only reason I am saying all this is to give a little word of advice.  Take it from someone who has unknowingly stayed at a value resort during the first week of December.  Pick another time to go!