Originally published at: Couple kicked out of Disney's exclusive Club 33 lose lawsuit
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I think Sun Tzu had all sorts of shit to say about not getting into a fight with Disney’s legal team.
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“…being a drunk in a bar is prohibitive?” “nah, being an overt drunk in a bar, for statistically significant levels of ‘overt’” “ah.”, says the tedious teetotaler
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Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - the most famous of which is “never get involved in a land war in Asia” - but only slightly less well-known is this: “Never go in against a Disney Lawyer when theme park attendance is on the line”!
— Vizzini, Princess Bride
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It’s important to note that he wasn’t accused of being drunk in the bar. He was accused of being drunk out in the public area of Disneyland.
At about 9:50 p.m. on Sept. 3, 2017, security guards found Scott Anderson near the entrance of California Adventure displaying signs of what they took to be intoxication, including slurred speech and trouble standing, according to trial testimony.
But the bottom line is that the terms of the membership prohibit public drunkenness, and Disney is allowed to set those membership rules, and the couple agreed to them. Their appeal isn’t going to cost them a kidney, though, because it will be denied. They have no case.
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Disney has a LOT of lawyers on their payroll. If you’ve worked worked Team Disney you quickly learn that most of the fourth floor is lawyers.
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I can’t imagine spending so much money and more importantly time and effort to gain access to some place that doesn’t want you there. I mean be salty about it sure but find some place else. What the hell is in Club 33 that is so damn important and can’t be gotten elsewhere?
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The man claims that the legal fees have set back his retirement by five years. What a pointless and sad way to throw away literal years of your life. I hope I’m never so beholden to a corporate entity for my personal self image. The inability to move on and find new pathways to enjoy life is baffling.
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Social status.
It used to be that it was also the only place you could get alcohol in the Disney parks, but now there are several nice bars in DCA as well as surrounding areas like the Grand Californian hotel. The one thing that club 33 offers is a signifier that members are figuratively and literally above the rest of the common riff-raff. Well, now this couple is officially riff-raff.
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“I would belong to a club that wouldn’t have me as a member.”
– Mirror Universe Groucho Marx
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I had to do some quick searching on this dude because I’m here in Gilbert and our mayor is “Scott Anderson”! Thankfully, no, they don’t look at all alike and the mayor has nothing to do with golf courses (or Disney, as far as is publicly known).
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Gets kicked out of the Disney club, joins the Streisand club.
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Once, you didn’t know if you knew a member because no one would say anything about it. Now, they wear special polo shirts and other things to make sure you know. The gift shop stuff seems to be a bigger reason to go than the menu.
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… I think we may infer that these are people in a whole different income bracket
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Club 33 you say? Can’t be any connection to 33rd being the highest degree in the Rite of Freemasonry.
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They were kicked out in 2017 after Scott was accused of being drunk
Oh man, I bet that is the cause of a bunch of fights back home…
Ron White had a bit about that: “I don’t want to be drunk in public! I wanna be drunk in a bar, which is perfectly legal!”
But that begs the question:
The year before, Diana had been briefly suspended for “using some salty language … a couple F-words,”
Was that in the club, or elsewhere in the park?
“My wife and I are both dead set that this is an absolute wrong, and we will fight this to the death,” Scott Anderson, who owns a golf course in Gilbert, Ariz., told The Times. “There is no way we’re letting this go.”
He said the lawsuit has cost him about $400,000.
“My retirement is set back five years,” he said. “I’m paying through the nose. Every day, I’m seeing another bill, and I’m about to keel over.” He said he will appeal.
These guys seem a bit dumb, IMO.
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Not freemasonry, but booze. 33 is the number on Rolling Rock Beer bottles, and the year Prohibition was repealed.
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It maybe makes sense if you’re doing it for a political reason or something, like folks who sue to integrate all-white or all-male clubs. But to get access only for yourself to a special room where you can drink and eat slightly above average food, at Disneyland???
According to the LA Times article, Disney’s lawyer "told jurors that Scott Anderson’s conduct ‘cost his wife of 40 years her lifetime dream of having access to Club 33.’”
Savage. I wonder if the Disney lawyer has a friend who is a divorce lawyer in Arizona.
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Also the year Hitler was elected…
But from what I’ve read I think it’s called Club 33 because the original entrane was located at #33 on whatever street it’s on.
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