{"id":11659,"date":"2013-05-20T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/struth-its-a-small-world-after-all-8000-proves-it\/"},"modified":"2015-08-10T08:35:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T08:35:04","slug":"struth-its-a-small-world-after-all-8000-proves-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/05\/struth-its-a-small-world-after-all-8000-proves-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Struth! It&#8217;s a Small World After All, $8000 proves it."},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-2n3f_I2-TUA\/UZpwPNXw7fI\/AAAAAAAAfpU\/g1MrtE9ziLA\/s1600\/USA%2BDisneyland%2BIt%2527s_a_Small_World%2521-771594.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-2n3f_I2-TUA\/UZpwPNXw7fI\/AAAAAAAAfpU\/g1MrtE9ziLA\/s320\/USA%2BDisneyland%2BIt%2527s_a_Small_World%2521-771594.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><b><span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<div lang=\"EN-AU\" link=\"blue\" vlink=\"purple\">\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span>IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that a disabled man who had to endure a non-stop half-hour of <i>&#8220;It&#8217;s a<\/i> <i>Small World After All, It&#8217;s a Small World After All<\/i>\u2026&#8221; when the Small World ride broke down at California&#8217;s Disneyland, has been awarded US$8000 compensation.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>The man was unable to be freed from the ride because he was in a wheelchair, and while workers managed to get all other riders out of the cave in which the ride failed, they were unable to turn off the repetitive music\u2026 a tune you either love or hate, and after 30-minutes of constant playing, most likely the latter.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>The man told the California Supreme Court he suffered panic attacks during the time he was trapped, high blood pressure side-effects, and had to contain a desire to urinate for the entire half-hour of the constant and repetitive jingle.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>Something akin, we feel, to what we&#8217;re subjected to when we go to our local supermarket.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that a disabled man who had to endure a non-stop half-hour of &#8220;It&#8217;s a Small World After All, It&#8217;s a Small World After All\u2026&#8221; when the Small World ride broke down at California&#8217;s Disneyland, has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240,1],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-11659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-struth-3","category-uncategorized","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15658,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11659\/revisions\/15658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}