Another kid visiting Disneyland got out of Tiana’s Bayou Adventure in the middle of the ride — this time at the bottom of the lift hill rather than at the top.
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By now, virtually everyone has seen the TMZ video of the 13-year-old boy tumbling down the water-covered track on Tiana’s Bayou Adventure as the log flume ride vehicle raced ahead of him on June 21.
Now, TMZ reports another child climbed out of Tiana’s Bayou Adventure on Saturday, July 4 at the bottom of the lift hill. The child was uninjured.
Disneyland cast members immediately stopped the attraction and appropriately handled the occurrence, according to Disneyland officials.
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Disneyland rides stop all the time for any number of reasons. Sometimes it’s for a lost hat or dropped cell phone. Other times it’s because of a rider taking longer than expected to get on or off the ride. And more often than you’d expect it’s because someone has climbed out of a ride vehicle in the middle of the ride.
Disneyland employees are trained to immediately stop a ride whenever they spot a rider on closed-circuit TV exit a ride vehicle before the ride is over — for your safety and for the safety of everyone else on the ride.
The spiel at the beginning of the ride and all the warning signs in the queue are there for your safety. You need to follow the instructions so you don’t get hurt — or worse.
When a Disneyland employee tells you to take off your Minnie Mouse ears it’s not because they are trying to mess up your hair and ruin the selfie you want to take on the ride. It’s because the ears might fly off and force the ride operators to shut down the ride.
You can’t bring your giant Stanley water bottle on the Incredicoaster because it weighs four pounds and it might kill somebody if you drop it during the inverted loop.
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Dropped cell phones are the number one lost items at theme parks because people want to film themselves riding on a roller coaster.
But the bigger problem with cell phones on rides are the people that get out of ride vehicles to retrieve their $2,000 iPhone 17 Pro that they dropped. That’s an insanely bad idea. No matter how much money you will be out or how inconvenient it will be to spend the rest of the day without your phone.
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You should never get out of a moving theme park ride. It’s incredibly dangerous. You could get seriously injured or die.
Theme park rides are inherently safe. It’s the illusion of danger that makes people do crazy things like climb out of a log on Tiana’s Bayou Adventure.
You would never jump out of a moving car. Why would you get out of a moving theme park ride? Don’t do it. You’re going to get hurt. Or worse.
At a minimum, you’re going to ruin the experience for everybody else on the ride and completely freak out the ride operators. Because the moment you step off a ride, Disneyland employees are trained to trigger a series of safety protocols.
Step one is to stop the ride. Step two is to immediately help you get to safety. Step three is to see if you need any medical assistance.
If you think you might be embarrassed because you’re going to scream like a baby as you rocket down the 50-foot drop on Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, think for a moment about how embarrassing it will be to have your fall down the waterfall played on an endless loop by TMZ.
Stay seated and close your eyes. You’ll make it through the ride just like millions of other riders. And then you can vow to never get on that thing ever again.
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Don’t ruin your day at the park and the experience of countless other visitors just because you’re too afraid to ride Tiana’s Bayou Adventure. Just scream your lungs out, cry if you need to and stick to gentler rides for the rest of the day. Not everybody’s made for thrills and adventure. That’s why Disneyland has It’s a Small World.
There’s no shame in setting your own boundaries. You just can’t make the decision to do so at the bottom of the lift hill on Tiana’s Bayou Adventure. Or worse yet, at the top.
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