MinnieMouse2017
Earning My Ears
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- Jan 3, 2018
https://nypost.com/2018/04/02/mom-s...her-off-disney-cruise-for-being-too-pregnant/
It was no fairytale vacation.
A mom says she was kicked off a Disney cruise by armed guards — for being too pregnant to go on the trip.
Emily Jackson, 22, was all set to embark on a family vacation with her husband, two kids, parents and siblings and was waiting for her room keys aboard the boat in Miami Thursday, when Disney staff approached her, KMOV reported.
They told Jackson she couldn’t be on the boat because she was 25 weeks pregnant — one week past the House of Mouse’s policy, she said.
Jackson had flown from St. Louis for the family vacation. She said her doctor had given her permission to travel and that she hadn’t heard about Disney’s policy.
Her father tried to see if there was any way the family could still take their long-anticipated trip — and that’s when things got ugly.
Video Jackson posted to her YouTube vlog “The Jackson Hive” shows an armed guard telling the mom to, “Wait outside. Step outside” as he leads the family to a door.
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The guard scared her two kids, smirking and laughing as he ushered them out while toting an AR-15, Jackson said.
“It was just terrible. They had the guy with a gun following us, they had the K9 unit,” she told the station.
Jackson and her family — including two kids under the age of 2 — had to wait outside in the heat for almost two hours while crews tried to find their luggage, she says in the video.
Footage from another video about the ordeal shows the family sporting custom-made “Keep calm and enjoy your Disney vacation” shirts.
“I felt so bad because I felt like it was my fault that everybody couldn’t go,” Jackson says in the footage.
Jackson said her issue isn’t with the policy but “how they treated us after that point.”
“I’m mad because of how they treated me and my children…. The fact that they felt they needed AR-15s to escort us out.”
Jackson said Disney offered to reimburse their tickets for the cruise but not their flights to and from St. Louis.
Disney Cruise Line did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
It was no fairytale vacation.
A mom says she was kicked off a Disney cruise by armed guards — for being too pregnant to go on the trip.
Emily Jackson, 22, was all set to embark on a family vacation with her husband, two kids, parents and siblings and was waiting for her room keys aboard the boat in Miami Thursday, when Disney staff approached her, KMOV reported.
They told Jackson she couldn’t be on the boat because she was 25 weeks pregnant — one week past the House of Mouse’s policy, she said.
Jackson had flown from St. Louis for the family vacation. She said her doctor had given her permission to travel and that she hadn’t heard about Disney’s policy.
Her father tried to see if there was any way the family could still take their long-anticipated trip — and that’s when things got ugly.
Video Jackson posted to her YouTube vlog “The Jackson Hive” shows an armed guard telling the mom to, “Wait outside. Step outside” as he leads the family to a door.
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The guard scared her two kids, smirking and laughing as he ushered them out while toting an AR-15, Jackson said.
“It was just terrible. They had the guy with a gun following us, they had the K9 unit,” she told the station.
Jackson and her family — including two kids under the age of 2 — had to wait outside in the heat for almost two hours while crews tried to find their luggage, she says in the video.
Footage from another video about the ordeal shows the family sporting custom-made “Keep calm and enjoy your Disney vacation” shirts.
“I felt so bad because I felt like it was my fault that everybody couldn’t go,” Jackson says in the footage.
Jackson said her issue isn’t with the policy but “how they treated us after that point.”
“I’m mad because of how they treated me and my children…. The fact that they felt they needed AR-15s to escort us out.”
Jackson said Disney offered to reimburse their tickets for the cruise but not their flights to and from St. Louis.
Disney Cruise Line did not immediately respond to a request for comment.