Police and hazmat team deployed at Disneyland after several guests struck by feces from potential 'Crappinheim Fiend'
In the pitch blackness of night just before 9 p.m. on Friday, 17 unsuspecting guest experienced something less than a magical moment during the nighttime Main Street Electrical Parade near the castle at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, when they were hit by what was reported to be fecal matter.
Anaheim police and firefighters initially responded, and a hazmat team was later deployed after witnesses reported that someone had thrown human feces into a crowd and hit 11 adults and six minors with human excrement.
Anaheim Police spokesman, Sgt. Daron Wyatt, was suspiciously quick to reassure the public that the droppings were "clearly goose poop" from a flock of geese flying over Disneyland Friday evening in the pitch black skies overhead; however, it is well known that geese do not fly at night because of impaired visibility from darkness.
In addition, it is also well known that wild geese, particularly the most common species Canadian geese, do not migrate down south from Canada until late fall and early winter when temperatures begin to dip up in the great white north.
Anaheim Police spokesman, Sgt. Daron Wyatt, said the poop hitting guests at Disneyland was clearly droppings from geese, despite not having any expert confirm those findings |
Large flocks of geese, however, are rarely seen in the skies over Southern California, especially in the summer and in the pitch dark of night when the incident had apparently taken place at the start of the Main Street Electrical Parade inside the Disneyland theme park.
Anaheim Police even went so far as to tweet out afterwards that the victims involved in the possible assault from what we call a potential "Crappinheim Fiend" at large were all "healthy and happy," but who in their right minds would be happy and content after being traumatized by being sprayed with feces? The reassurances just sound too Mickey Mouse to be taken at face value.
So the question has to be asked, did the Anaheim Police deliberately rush to a faulty conclusion in order to help calm another PR nightmare at Disneyland? If so, APD may have just let the "Crappinheim Fiend" ooze between their fingers.
Certainly, if Anaheim Police and Disneyland officials wanted to reassure the public that the feces was from geese, they would have brought in an expert to confirm that in fact the excrement was from some kind of fowl rather than from any other source, but they didn't do that in their investigation to confirm this conclusion to the public.
In addition, neither the Anaheim Police nor hazmat team have the expertise to determine if the excrement in question is "clearly" from geese as Southern Californians have very little exposure to wild geese compared to other more common local birds, such as pigeons, ducks, crows, seagulls, and even wild parrots. That would require some laboratory testing.
Even if this were the case, how does that make that kind of horrible and disgusting situation any better for the horrified victims who were smeared in feces?
We don't know which B.S. smelled more: the one flung onto guests or the explanation served up by APD and Disney |
Apparently, Sgt. Daron Wyatt considers himself some kind of expert in excrement since he is the chief spokesman for both the Anaheim Police and Fire Department; however, the admission that several guests were indeed sprayed with and exposed to some form of real excrement still begs the question to be asked whether City of Anaheim and Disneyland officials are trying to deliberately downplay yet another PR nightmare for the Disneyland Resort by splitting hairs.
Thus, we can only conclude that the feces in question is one of unknown origin until an expert can verify or rule out that it is from some kind of bird or from a human or another creature.
After all, feces by any other name still smells the same.
We were asking our local Anaheim law enforcement sources if there were any reports of suspicious characters in the area who may have been fingered as the potential "Crappinheim Fiend" who were also known to the police to be vandalizing the Anaheim Resort District—in particular the Disneyland Resort—with human feces, and they did report a few key suspects in mind who have been known to have vandalized the Disneyland hotel properties with human excrement in recent months. (See Crime Alert Network bulletin from April 18, 2017 above.)
Thus, it seems the case of the Disneyland poop-flinger is far from being considered case-closed.
Sources:
- Fox News: Hazmat crew called to Disneyland after geese poop on guests (6/13/17)
- CBS News: Geese defecate on crowd of people, including children, at Disneyland (6/10/17)
- U.S. News & World Report: Geese Dump Droppings on Disneyland Guests, Hitting 17 People (6/10/17)
- Washington Post: Geese dump droppings on Disneyland guests, hitting 17 people (6/10/17)
- Chicago Tribune: Flock of geese poop on 17 people at Disneyland (6/10/17)
- NY Post: Poop attack sends cops to Disneyland (6/10/17), with video
- NY Daily News: Poop attack sends cops to Disneyland (6/10/17), with video
- Sac Bee: Goose poop leads to unpleasant Disneyland trips for 17 parkgoers (6/10/17)
- Time: Hazmat Responds to Disneyland After People Struck by Geese Droppings (6/10/17)
- KTLA: 17 People Struck by Geese Droppings at Disneyland: Police (6/10/17)
- KCBS: Hazmat team deployed at Disneyland after several guests struck by feces (6/10/17), with video
- OC Register: Overhead geese provide messy end to day at Disneyland for 17 people (6/10/17)
- KNBC: Geese Defecate on Disneyland Parkgoers, Prompting HazMat Response (6/09/17)
- LA Times: Goose poop leaves 17 a bit messy at Disneyland (6/09/17)
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