🐱 Disney World’s Big Secret

https://boingboing.net/2018/10/25/code-grandma.html

If you ever hear an announcement on a Disneyland or Walt Disney World PA calling for a "HEPA cleanup" it means that someone has just dumped a dead person's ashes in a ride. Again.

Obviously the Haunted Mansion is a prime locale for this, but the lawns, the water rides, the castles, and every other place get their share of cremains. It's cathartic for the ash-scatterers but seriously gross for the custodial staff.

To get ashes past the bag-search, it's best to hide them in pharmaceutical pill bottles or makeup compacts. The "HEPA cleanup" code replaces an unofficial and now banned castmember euphemism: "Code Grandma."

Though ash-scattering is a misdemeanor, it doesn't seem like anyone's ever been arrested for it.

Human ashes have been spread in flower beds, on bushes and on Magic Kingdom lawns; outside the park gates and during fireworks displays; on Pirates of the Caribbean and in the moat underneath the flying elephants of the Dumbo ride. Most frequently of all, according to custodians and park workers, they’ve been dispersed throughout the Haunted Mansion, the 49-year-old attraction featuring an eerie old estate full of imaginary ghosts.

“The Haunted Mansion probably has so much human ashes in it that it’s not even funny,” said one Disneyland custodian.

A Disney spokeswoman said, “this type of behavior is strictly prohibited and unlawful. Guests who attempt to do so will be escorted off property.”

 

[Flying_with_the_Penguins]

Who would hate someone enough to spread their ashes at Disneyworld?

 

[SiccDicc]

Well, I thought it was that they finally found Walt Disney's victims, but this was pretty close. I guess.

 

[AmpleApricots]

There are countries where it's illegal to have the remains of dead people, including their ashes which also need to be buried on an actual graveyard. It is probably good thinking.

On the other hand, it's not really anything to be concerned about either. It's kinda gross but not a health risk or anything.

 

[Orkeosaurus]

why the hell would anyone want to spend more than a weekend at disney world, let alone eternity?

 

[Judge Holden]

Ah so thats why theres been all those Negative Mickey Mouse creatures and faceless children lurking around the park after hours these past few years

(i have read many, many, many disney creepypastas. I am incredibly sad and lonely)

 

[repentance]

There are countries where it's illegal to have the remains of dead people, including their ashes which also need to be buried on an actual graveyard. It is probably good thinking.

On the other hand, it's not really anything to be concerned about either. It's kinda gross but not a health risk or anything.

You're technically not supposed to scatter them in public places here, but I've never heard of anyone actually getting into legal trouble for it. I can see why it would be an issue when you're scattering ground up bone in a manner where it can get into machinery, though.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

I would like to have my remains scattered at Disneyland.

I'd also like to not be cremated.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

You'd have to be a complete asshole to do this, and I would probably try to kill anybody responsible for getting somebody's ashes on me.

 

[Bassomatic]

Adults into Disney are scarier than anything Lovecraft could cook up.

 

[Keine]

Not the first time I've heard about this. There have been actual deaths at both Disney parks though.

 

[Vorhtbame]

I would like to have my remains scattered at Disneyland.

I'd also like to not be cremated.

Oh, that's easy. Just locate a cluster of dangerhairs and tell them Elsa isn't lesbian. They'll do the rest.

 

[liliput]

That's why my pants were all grey after Stitch's Great Escape...

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

I thought they found Disneys frozen head

 

[Judge Holden]

I thought they found Disneys frozen head

No no, they found him frozen in the act of giving head. Turns out he died choking on alabama black snake and they buried him (and the lucky/extremely unlucky nigger who had to be silenced) frozen in stasis awaiting a distant future where the shame of sucking coon cock might be scrubbed away

 

[Roast Chicken]

Considering the cultish reverence some Americans have for Disney, I can believe people wanting their urns emptied there.

 

[Bongsnake McGee]

Man, and here i was hoping for a mad 1960s computer that became sentient, that was making a plague to wipe out all of the non-green eyed black people in the world.

 

[Ido]

If they're stupid enough to do this I have to wonder how many have released the ashes at the wrong time and got a face fill of them.

Also im willing to bet a good chunk of millennial ashes are gonna end up in potterworld.

 

[TowinKarz]

You're technically not supposed to scatter them in public places here, but I've never heard of anyone actually getting into legal trouble for it. I can see why it would be an issue when you're scattering ground up bone in a manner where it can get into machinery, though.

Well, at it's most basic, it's littering. I mean, have some common courtesy.

 

[HeraldofNurgle]

I'm surprised that Disney didn't capitalize this by charging a premium expensive rate for the privilege of scattering ashes, only to sweep it all up and throw it in the trash after the mourners leave.