If you’ve ever been to a Disney Park, you know it’s a ton of walking. You will likely walk several miles in a day. The multitude of steps, coupled with the heat, can make people exhausted and crabby, particularly kids. Tons of parents opt to put their kids in strollers at Disney, even if they don’t typically use one, because the extra steps are just too much. There’s nothing worse than having to carry a sticky kid who is nothing but dead weight when you’re exhausted yourself. If using a stroller prevents an epic meltdown at the happiest place on Earth, we’re all for it.
One Disney mom apparently didn’t plan for her daughter to tire so easily, but what she did next shocked people. A post in Reddit’s DisneyWorld sub caused a total uproar recently, and people can’t believe the woman’s audacity. Someone posted a screenshot from the Facebook group Annual Passholders-Walt Disney World.
“The latest drama on the Disney Facebook group. We truly stray away further from kindness and common sense every day,” the caption reads.
We then see a photo of a little girl smiling in a pink wheelchair with Cinderella’s Castle in the background.
“My baby walked about 15 miles. We found a deserted wheelchair on our way to the exit and ended up wheeling the sweet girl out. I definitely asked for a photo pass shot. Lol,” Alisha D. Pickman wrote.
PSA: if you see a wheelchair, don’t take it and use it as a photo op.
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According to Redditors who saw Pickman’s original post, Disney fans properly flamed her in the comment section and she ultimately deleted the post. Unfortunately for her, that was after screenshots and her name and photo made their way to Reddit.
One Redditor saw Pickman’s post and claimed another person had been posting searching for their wheelchair.
“Yep!” someone wrote. “This is all over the Passholder pages and all those Passholders didn’t disappoint in pointing out that the owner posted this chair on a disability page asking for its return. The owner had to rent a chair when theirs was stolen. The proud entitled mother posted her daughter in the stolen chair and that post didn’t go the way she expected.”
One person saw a similar post and shared: “The best (worst?!) part was when someone realized that it was actually a stolen wheelchair that someone in a Disney disability group had been about going missing, with pictures – the chairs matched. It was her personal chair. That person was given OPs information.”
Pickman’s photo shocked many people who condemned her for allegedly making an extremely poor choice.
“You chose to walk 15 miles,” someone wrote. “I am sure the owner of that wheelchair didn’t choose to have a disability. I hope the wheelchair thieves sneeze on pixie dust.”
Another person agreed: “This made my stomach hurt. Stopping for a photopass op with your able-bodied child in a stolen wheelchair…ew.”
Some felt like Pickman committed a crime.
“To me this is the equivalent of saying ‘Wow, we found an empty car just parked right there in the Disney World parking lot, so we took it!’” a comment reads “Absolutely disgusting.”
Others hope Pickman never sets foot in a Disney Park again.
“I hope someone in Disney management saw the post, found out who made it, and then had them banned from all Disney parks for life,” someone wrote.
Another person agreed, writing: “I hope someone reports her to Disney somehow. She should be banned!!!”
Pickman did not respond to CafeMom’s request for comment.
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