What was the biggest Disney meltdown you've witnessed?

[OrangeCountyCommuter]

I watched a man get escorted out of OKW by the local police after threatening to break the CMs legs because someone was in HIS villa and the CM would not evict them!

 

[Chainsaw]

Near the que for Peter Pan, a woman laid her daughter down on the cement, in front of God and Disney guests and started changing her diaper. On the cement. In the sun. The little girl started crying that it was hot. Her mother, term used loosely here, was yelling at her, saying "if you would have started using the toilet at home, you wouldn't be lying in front of these people showing off your privates".

A cast member went up, directing her to the nearest bathroom. The woman completely lost it. Yelling, swearing, throwing the dirty diaper at the cast member. She said something about doing what she wanted, stood her daughter up and walked away with her diaperless.

A few minutes later, the woman and her daughter were being escorted by two security cast members toward the exit. Poor little princess was crying and her mom was too busy arguing to pay attention to her daughter.

poor baby

 

[gottalovepluto]

New plan guys- if everyone reads this thread people are going to get freaked about going to Disney. Shorter lines for all! (Inspired by @TXHauntedMansionFan punched in the face while wearing glasses story, because that's scary, people be crazy!)

 

[damskipi13]

This one goes back at least 11 or 12 years, before I had kids. My family always went back then during the very crowded week between Christmas and New Years due to my younger siblings only common break being that one. I was at MK with my husband, brother and his now wife. We had had dinner at GF then headed into the park for rides after. A parade had ended so it was a mess of people up front. We were crossing main street from the side with Casey's and all took a hard right toward Tomorrowland Terrace to get through a break we saw before the next throng of people. Well my brother, the last of us, barely made it with the rest of us, sort of cutting off a man on a scooter, which were more unusual to see back then. The man becomes livid. My brother just sped up and really did not make this man stop, but it was close enough the man probably felt he had to slow down. He starts yelling and screaming, we didn't know what to do. My brother politely said, sorry I just didn't want to get separated from my family, and left it at that. The man keeps yelling about being cut off all day, and then gets out of his scooter, picks it up, at least chest high and yells "Ahhhhh" in a roaring tone before slamming it down hard enough I'm surprised he didn't pop a tire. We just walked away, but honestly, for a split second I thought he was going to throw it at my brother!

I laughed harder than I should have at this. Did your brother cut off The Hulk?? "You wouldn't like me when I'm angry!" Those scooters are heavy!!!

 

[gel_erp]

Yep. My own. It was the end of our 2 1/2 week vacation (me with a a 6 week old, a 3 year old and DH back at home). We were leaving MK, heading straight to the airport after a full day in the park and were trying to organize ourselves in the parking lot. I was tired, stressed and trying to pack too much stuff in already full and heavy bags! My Dad asked if I wanted help, I said no. My mom asked, I said No. My dad asked again, No and then my sister made the mistake of asking me. So I did what any mature, grown up would do. I threw my shoe at her! Hard.
For Christmas she bought me a pandora shoe charm! Ahh sisters.

 

[AZMermaid]

I have two- both at Disneyland.
The first, my Dad had taken us to DL and we stayed in Garden Grove at the Embassy Suites. It was back when most hotels still had shuttles. We were on the shuttle one morning and this mom was really giving it to her tween daughter about eating breakfast. Now that I am a mom, I get it. The kid was probably giving her mom attitude and the mom knew if she didn't eat- things would get worse. But the whole ten minute ride, the mom was yelling at the kid to eat her muffin. She kept saying, "If you don't eat your muffin, we can not go to Disneyland." We still tell each other that more than 10 years later!

The second... my sister, husband and I were doing Mouse Adventure at DCA. Mouse Adventure is a scavenger hunt meets Amazing Race thing that Mouse Planet puts on a couple times a year. Well- I was feeling uber competitive and wouldn't agree to stop for a decent meal- just granola bars on the run. My sister got a "tad" bit hangry and screamed at us that she was quitting and this was not fun and she was going back to the hotel. I am pretty sure everyone within 50 feet heard her! We had to go back to the official check in area so we could declare her done and change our number to two people. She was fuming the whole time. Needless to say..... we didn't place!

 

[OhMari]

I have two- both at Disneyland.
The first, my Dad had taken us to DL and we stayed in Garden Grove at the Embassy Suites. It was back when most hotels still had shuttles. We were on the shuttle one morning and this mom was really giving it to her tween daughter about eating breakfast. Now that I am a mom, I get it. The kid was probably giving her mom attitude and the mom knew if she didn't eat- things would get worse. But the whole ten minute ride, the mom was yelling at the kid to eat her muffin. She kept saying, "If you don't eat your muffin, we can not go to Disneyland." We still tell each other that more than 10 years later!

The second... my sister, husband and I were doing Mouse Adventure at DCA. Mouse Adventure is a scavenger hunt meets Amazing Race thing that Mouse Planet puts on a couple times a year. Well- I was feeling uber competitive and wouldn't agree to stop for a decent meal- just granola bars on the run. My sister got a "tad" bit hangry and screamed at us that she was quitting and this was not fun and she was going back to the hotel. I am pretty sure everyone within 50 feet heard her! We had to go back to the official check in area so we could declare her done and change our number to two people. She was fuming the whole time. Needless to say..... we didn't place!

I was a little too competitive playing that game too. We are from Wisconsin, where the weather is 20 degrees or colder in Wisconsin and when you get to California, it can be 70-80 degrees. We hit our 3 day wall-and it was extremely warm while we were there. I thought it would be fun, so I joined the game a few months before we got there. Anyhow, it was my melt down. I was reading a clue, and my dh just walks off in a different direction. I continue to walk and didn't notice he went a different direction. I do not see him anywhere. I go back and he always tells me, if you get lost, stay put. So that lasted 15 minutes. I walk in the direction that I think that he may have went, and there he was, just standing, didn't care. I was so furious by then, I screamed at him, "You are the worst team player-EVER! I told him, what kind of partner just leaves the other person and doesn't event look." He was so baffled by what I was saying and started apologizing. Blah, Blah Blah! It was then I noticed people were staring at us. My only consolation, was I would never see those people again.

 

[Flamingeaux]

I think we were staying at POP when about 2:00AM I woke up to hear our next door neighbor having a serious meltdown with his wife. I thought for a moment he might start beating her. It lasted about 15-20 minutes.

 

[kohlby]

Whew. Is anyone else glad that no one comments are about their family . . .

My daughter had a couple epic meltdowns during our last trip. The heat index was over 100 degrees several days in Sept of 2014. Add that in to a child who hasn't been diagnosed yet - so no treatment yet -who has OCD and GAD and she had a couple huge meltdowns. The thing is, she had meltdowns like that or worse at home. I hate it when people judge parents thinking they're pushing their kids not realizing that the child's meltdowns aren't any smaller at home.

 

[HicksOhana]

Last time we were there, Our family had a melt down that was *almost* justified. We were staying at AOA, spend a long day at the parks, get back to our room at 1130p, and our smoke detector is going off. (no clue how long it had been going off). Well, we call the front desk, get the standard "smeone will be right down" Meantime I have two cranky kids (15 & 12) and a crankier DH. We wait 40 mins yes 40 mins, while this thing is screaming an ear piercing scream. At this point I'm near tears, kids are miserable and husband is losing his mind. And its after midnight. We call desk again, "sorry they will be right down" (we had called every 10-15 mins in the orginal 40) DH slams the phone down, climbs on bed and rips smoke detector off the wall, and throws it in the bushes. (STILL GOING OFF MIND YOU!) neighbors come out, they call front desk. Maintenece shows up immediately By this point its almost 1 am. They now have to put up a new smoke detector. So they leave to go get supplies. We have to wait up for them. They come back and put up a new one, which should only take a few mins. 45 mins later.... yeah not a good night.
I should add that when DH ripped it off the wall, he was careful to disconnect it, knowing they would have to fix it (but at this point we couldn't take it anymore), so it shouldn't have been a long fix. 2 wires, and fixed... but no. Somehow it took three men and so many tools.

 

[ElaineB55]

I witnessed a meltdown of a young 4ish year old little girl after being in the The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter (the ride prior to the Stitch). She was screaming in terror during the whole thing, and when it was done, she was crying and yelling - "Why did you take me in here? Bad mommy, bad mommy." I had to agree with her!

 

[rastahomie]

I think we were staying at POP when about 2:00AM I woke up to hear our next door neighbor having...

I must say, at first I thought this post was going somewhere else entirely, lol.

 

[MaryLovesPoohBear]

Whew. Is anyone else glad that no one comments are about their family . . .

My daughter had a couple epic meltdowns during our last trip. The heat index was over 100 degrees several days in Sept of 2014. Add that in to a child who hasn't been diagnosed yet - so no treatment yet -who has OCD and GAD and she had a couple huge meltdowns. The thing is, she had meltdowns like that or worse at home. I hate it when people judge parents thinking they're pushing their kids not realizing that the child's meltdowns aren't any smaller at home.

I think most people understand meltdowns by children. It is the adult meltdowns that shock people. Or, well, make them laugh.

 

[Tia1977]

While not total epic-I have to confess I had my own meltdown of sorts. It was the 1st (and only) MK RD we did. None of us are am people, but I just "had" to have us do RD as our welcome. DD & DH woke on the grumpy side, & I woke on the drill sergeant side; determined we'd make good time. We did, we were super close to the gate when there. The next hour as the masses kept showing & body space shrunk, our moods just naturally brightened, we were overjoyed with magic, and it started a blissful morning...um not (lol) We hated standing there getting shoved & packed like sardines. (I don't even remember much from the Welcome Show). We hated the mad dash down Mainstreet, we hated the fun of the rides we did being cast over by a "we gotta hurry" shadow. And I hated how I had planned for over a year to give DD the most awesome trip ever for her to be a grumpy, snippy, unimpressed pre-teen (12). We were bickering back & forth all through Fantasyland. DH just tried to keep his head low & stay out of it (ha). As we took a break in silence over cinnamon rolls at Gastons, DD glaring, me tearing up, & DH dazed/confused being stuck in the middle (lol). He busted out with how glad he was to "meet the 2 new dwarfs... p!ssy and b!tchy". All of a sudden, we all broke out in hysterical laughter. DD & I had our come to Jesus moment w/each other, and we all decided to leave and call a re-do later that night. We took naps, woke up refreshed, & went back later to the most magic filled night! Over the next 2wks, we had the best time everyday (which from then on out included sleeping in and closing down the park's night owl style). We still joke about that morning. If either of us get cranky, DH calls us by our "dwarf names" and we've coined the phrase "MK RD" when describing the level of other people's real world meltdowns to each other lol!

 

[runnerchick]

At the Poly last Sept, a couple was SCREAMING at each other at the pool. It went on for about a half an hour! I just went out a different pool gate to grab a dole whip - so I didn't have to walk by them

 

[runnerchick]

While not total epic-I have to confess I had my own meltdown of sorts. It was the 1st (and only) MK RD we did. None of us are am people, but I just "had" to have us do RD as our welcome. DD & DH woke on the grumpy side, & I woke on the drill sergeant side; determined we'd make good time. We did, we were super close to the gate when there. The next hour as the masses kept showing & body space shrunk, our moods just naturally brightened, we were overjoyed with magic, and it started a blissful morning...um not (lol) We hated standing there getting shoved & packed like sardines. (I don't even remember much from the Welcome Show). We hated the mad dash down Mainstreet, we hated the fun of the rides we did being cast over by a "we gotta hurry" shadow. And I hated how I had planned for over a year to give DD the most awesome trip ever for her to be a grumpy, snippy, unimpressed pre-teen (12). We were bickering back & forth all through Fantasyland. DH just tried to keep his head low & stay out of it (ha). As we took a break in silence over cinnamon rolls at Gastons, DD glaring, me tearing up, & DH dazed/confused being stuck in the middle (lol). He busted out with how glad he was to "meet the 2 new dwarfs... p!ssy and b!tchy". All of a sudden, we all broke out in hysterical laughter. DD & I had our come to Jesus moment w/each other, and we all decided to leave and call a re-do later that night. We took naps, woke up refreshed, & went back later to the most magic filled night! Over the next 2wks, we had the best time everyday (which from then on out included sleeping in and closing down the park's night owl style). We still joke about that morning. If either of us get cranky, DH calls us by our "dwarf names" and we've coined the phrase "MK RD" when describing the level of other people's real world meltdowns to each other lol!

I am cracking up at your post! We are more the night owl types - in all of our years at WDW we have NEVER made it to RD.

 

[Chainsaw]

if my husband ever called me or my daughter pissy or *****y, his dwarf name would be lonely or hungry!

 

[Figaro972]

i have two, both my own family.... we took my brother, his wife (both less mature than their son) and my nephew a few years ago as a gift, we were in line at EE and the whole time leading up to loading my brother was trying to convince my nephew that he would love it (nephew was 9 at the time and terrified to try it). my brother wasnt loud with him but he got upset and started crying, then of course my VERY LOUD sil yells "IF HE DOESNT WANT TO RIDE HE DOESNT HAVE TO", and kept yelling stuff like that. My husband turn white and i turned around and said calmly to my nephew "no you do not have to ride" told my brother to leave him alone and SIL to tone it down. still not really sure why I was embarrassed, i could have ignored them and pretended they were not with us. LOL - it was bad enough we could hear them yelling at each other every night as our rooms were across the hall.

then two years ago we were there with my BF her new hubby and his family, we were waiting to sit for his Bday dinner when the CM came to show us to our table (we had a party of 12) and she tried to sit us at 2 round tables right next to each other and he had a FIT of all fits, why are we seated sep??? stuff like that, i said "but they are right next to each other, it should be fine" - and the CM calmly explained its not easy to get a table for a party that size and he yells really loud "what about that one right there!" again DH turned white as a sheet. unfortunately bf's hubby is one of those people who believes the louder you are you get what you want - was really hoping in this case he would have been proven wrong.

 

[DisneyLovingPreacher]

I saw a dad screaming his head off at his children telling them they were awful children. I gladly got on my way, I often wonder what it was about.

 

[TiggerBouncy]

Saw a family claim a place for the parade right in the middle of the route before they put out the ropes. When the ropes went up, a CM told them they would have to move. They got belligerent saying they had been there and reserved that spot, so the ropes needed to be moved. There was plenty of time still, so the CM just told them that she understands how they feel, but it's a safety issue and they will not be allowed to remain there once the parade starts. She was as nice as can be.

Over the course of the next hour (?), I watched several times as the CM reminded them they would have to move before the parade started (showing amazing politeness and restraint), and they got increasingly angry saying they refused to move since they had already "claimed" that spot. As we neared the parade time (about 5 minutes out) the CM told them they needed to vacate that position immediately and they yelled at her and threw a tantrum. A single look from her, and I saw 3 security guards start moving discretely to toward us.

In the end, security did not have to eject them from the park (I was surprised at that - I thought one of them was going to throw a punch and it would have been all over). They gave in when one of the security arrived and backed the CM up.

We made a point of telling the CM how well we thought she handled the situation since the people were horribly rude and she kept remaining calm and polite at all times. You could tell she was a little stressed from them, but she never lost her cool. I even wrote Disney about her after we left. Don't know if they ever followed thorough and it ended up on her review or anything, but she was amazing.