Disney is being sued over a wedgie at Typhoon Lagoon, one of their water parks

[The Deadman]

https://www.cnn.com/travel/typhoon-l...ide/index.html

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts is facing a lawsuit related to an “injurious wedgie” that court documents allege resulted from riding a 214-foot water slide in the resort’s Typhoon Lagoon water park in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

The suit pertains to an incident that took place on October 14, 2019, on the Humunga Kowabunga water slide during a two-week visit to Walt Disney World by plaintiffs Emma and Edward McGuinness and their family. The family visited the resort in part to celebrate Emma McGuinness’ 30th birthday.

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The slide, which Disney bills on its website as a “near-vertical, 5-story drop — in the dark,” descends 214 feet and plunges riders into a pool of water to end the ride.

The suit, which was filed last week in the Circuit Court for Orange County, Florida, alleges that Disney knew, or should have known, of the risk of painful “wedgies,” particularly for women.

“Specifically, when a rider of The Slide reached the bottom of the ride and traveled into the pool of water designed to stop further travel, the force of the water can push loose garments into a person’s anatomy - an event known as a ‘wedgie,’” the suit says. “Because of a woman’s anatomy, the risk of a painful ‘wedgie’ is more common and more serious than it is for a man.”

The plaintiffs are seeking “damages exceeding $50,000, exclusive of interest and costs” for the count of negligence.

CNN has reached out to Walt Disney World Resort for comment.

The suit alleges that Disney “was negligent and breached its duties of reasonable care” in failing to provide protective clothing, such as shorts, for the slide; failing to warn McGuinness and other women of the risks; and other design and safety failures.

The suit says that McGuinness assumed the appropriate position with her ankles crossed, “as instructed,” but she became airborne toward the end of the slide and slammed into the slide “which increased the likelihood of her legs becoming uncrossed or otherwise exposing herself to injury.”

Im sorry, if you dont know how a water slide at a theme park goes, either dont get on it....or go on youtube, there's plenty of POVs.

[IndigoErth]

Wow. Are they going to sue Florida for sunburn as well? Should I sue the airline to FL that blew out my left eardrum at 18, left me mostly deaf in it for some days, and, though it recovered, has been sensative to certain sounds/volumes ever since? Clearly some permanent damage there. Or the slide at a theme park that burned me as a kid? So many missed opportunities back before suing was a knee-jerk cash grab over stupid stuff.

I mean, if the force feels like it tries to split ya front to back, yeah, that's gonna suck, but why seek $50k for something that probably felt fine in just a few days? She's probably had ass rash from using lady products in the summer that hurt as much and for longer...

[Autbot_Benz]

Gives a new meaning to getting your panties in a bunch . Really suing over a ****ing wedgie.

Also Incident took place in 2019 waits till 2023 to sue seems legit

[KROW]

Not the worst lawsuit in the world, but right up in there.

[TheCanadiandrome]

Originally Posted by KROW

Not the worst lawsuit in the world, but right up in there.

Anyone suing McDonald’s is about up there as “dumb things people sue over”